Irris Makler v Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2001] NSWIRComm 83

Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales in Court Session

CITATION : Irris Makler v Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2001] NSWIRComm 83 APPLICANT: Irris Makler PARTIES : RESPONDENT: Australian Broadcasting Corporation FILE NUMBER: IRC 2296 of 2001 CORAM: Glynn J CATCHWORDS : Unfair contract - applicant employed by Australian Broadcasting Corporation - motion by ABC to dismiss application for want of jurisdiction - inconsistency claimed between s 106 of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 and s 109 of the Australian Constitution - motion by applicant seeking interlocutory relief restraining the ABC from recalling her from Moscow - motion of ABC upheld - motion of applicant dismissed to extent it was before the Commission as presently constituted. Industrial Relations Act 1996 s 105 s 106 LEGISLATION CITED : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 s 10 s 32 Australian Constitution s 109 Australian Broadcasting Commission v Industrial Court of South Australia and Anor (1976-1977) 138 CLR 399 Ex parte McLean (1930) 43 CLR 472 Harrison v Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation (unreported) [1993] NSWIRComm 87, 24/11/93 Hudson v Qantas Airways Limited (1985) 10 IR 331 Jackson v Sterling Industries (1987) 162 CLR 612 CASES CITED : Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia v Amalgamated Metal Workers' and Shipwrights' Union (1983) 152 CLR 632 McGowan v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (unreported) [2001] NSWIRComm 49, 30/3/01 Pelechowski v The Registrar (1999) 198 CLR 435 Reich v Client Server Professionals of Australia Pty Ltd (Administrator Appointed) (2000) 99 IR 69 Robert Alan Dawson v Telstra Corporation Limited (unreported) [1998] NSWIRComm 236, 29/5/98 Telstra v Worthing and Anor (1999) 197 CLR 61 Victoria v The Commonwealth (1937) 58 CLR 618 HEARING DATES: 04/09/2001; 04/12/2001 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 04/27/2001