Industrial Relations dominate first parliamentary sitting

The Prime Minister and Opposition leader at Parliament House on the first sitting day of 2016. (AAP) Source: The Prime Minister and Opposition leader at Parliament House on the first sitting day of 2016. (AAP)

Federal parliament has resumed for 2016 in what is expected to be a heated election year. The government's attempts to change industrial relations laws in the wake of the trade union Royal Commission -- and its political handling of the issue -- has emerged as dominant on the first sitting day.

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