IR an international embarassment?

This SMH article suggests that the new IR laws in their current form would breach UN Internation Standards - to which Australia is a signatory. I might be able to be convinced that some changes are needed to curtain excessive union power - but this government has made no effort to make a case, and has obviously given very little thought to the implications and outcomes of their bill. In pursuing such an extreme ideology (not to deliberately use a Labor phrase), they might have lost community support they otherwise would have had.