Threat to Aust. freeze
NZPA Canberra The Australian Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) told Parliament yesterday he believed that there would be an enormous feeling of disappointment throughout Australia at the attitudes unions had taken to the wage and price freeze. And the Treasurer (Mr Phillip Lynch) later claimed that the Labour premiers had tried to welsh on the agreement they had made last week to support the freeze. The 90-day voluntary freeze was called rather abruptly by the Prime Minister last week, and although it has won support from industry, unions are refusing to go along with it.
The Prime Minister is now facing the prospect of a complete collapse of the freeze, and he has ordered the Employment and Industrial Relations Minister (Mr Tony Street) to draw up details of a Government approach to the Arbitration Commission, to enforce it.
There was again a barrage of questions on aspects of the freeze in the Federal Parliament yesterday — as there has been throughout this week’s sittings. After question time, the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr John Howard) tabled a sheaf of papers relating to the freeze, including a detailed set of questions and answers on how the Government intended the freeze to work.
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