The Bench was comprised of Deputy Presidents, Judges Moore, Williams and Aird, with Public Service Arbitrator Chambers and Senior Commissioner Taylor.
2.
Not part of the original union applications. (Reasons for Decision, p. 15.)
3.
The Bench explicitly stated its "intention that our new minimum wage should not automatically apply in the Pastoral Industry Award" (p. 20). To be considered when the A.W.U. makes an application.
4.
See quotation from article by W.B. Reddaway, submitted during the hearing, in Reasons for Decision, p. 12.
5.
By the same token, criticism in the Press to the effect that the Government should have delayed Third Division salary increases until the National Wage Case decision was known is scarcely logical. In principle the two types of wage variation should have been based on different evidence. To the extent that the Third Division case had been based on inappropriate use of "work value" sub-missions, there is no reason to single out one group, when this practice has become general.
6.
Although at one point in the hearing it was pointed out by the unions that the claims coincided at a particular point in the structure of awards, it cannot be ignored that one was claiming a flat money amount, the other a flat percentage increase.
7.
See, for example , K. Sloane, "The National Wage Case 1967", Journal of Industrial Relations, November, 1969.
