The High Court's backing of the corporations power and the government's industrial relations legislation will have nasty results for workers, Greens leader Bob Brown said today.  
"However, the Prime Minister is cherry picking this corporations power to aid big business against the Australian community as a whole. The corporations power is being used to take away workers' rights at the same time as the Howard government is returning environmental controls to the states, to avoid its corporations power responsibilities for the environment,"
 
"The High Court decision clearly gives the Commonwealth enormous powers over policy on climate change, logging of forests and such land use as cotton growing and urban sprawl. But the Howard government is busy divesting itself of this responsibility," Senator Brown said.
 
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