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          "alt": "The FWC plays a critical role in shaping industrial relations in Australia. Its members are tasked with making decisions that affect wages, workplace conditions, and industrial disputes. By stacking the FWC with individuals from a narrow band of the union spectrum, the government is ensuring that certain ideological perspectives dominate while others are shut out.\nThe appointment process itself further highlights the problem. A formal job application process was established, however, the process was little more than a facade. I know of several highly qualified candidates from non-affiliated unions who applied. I also naively applied. The outcome suggests that our applications were never given any consideration. The government's main objective was not to find the most qualified and diverse progressive candidates but to maintain control over the ideological makeup of the FWC.\nThe consequence of this approach is a further erosion of public trust in government institutions. Workers in non-affiliated unions, who make up a substantial proportion of the workforce, deserve fair representation in decisions that directly affect them. It is not fair to officials working for the NTEU (National Tertiary Education Union), ASMOF, Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation, Australian Education Union and the lEUA (to name a few) to be shut out.\nFairness in industrial relations requires genuine balance, not just partisan counterbalancing. The government must recognise that unions not affiliated with Labor should be represented accordingly. Anything less is a disservice to the principles of fairness and impartiality that the FWC is supposed to represent.",
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