These battles show that a solid, principled, case can win, even in Australia’s often biased courts. But unions have quietly amassed influence, with proxy advisers bullying corporate boards at AGMs. This partly explains Australia’s plummeting productivity rankings.
So the business of science is to find out knowledge. But scientific fact can never be just fact, brute fact. It isn’t fact unless it’s true and it isn’t true unless it is both correctly observed and truthfully reported.