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Expansion of section Notable decisions
The 40 hour week case was a landmark and historic decision of the CCA. I am surprised that at this time there is no WP article about the history of the 40-hour week in Australia. The case took 2 years to hear, and was vigorously prosecuted by the ACTU and other parties, and just as vigorously defended by business groups, notably Cecil Nathaniel McKay (son of Hugh Victor McKay of the Harvester case fame), managing director of Sunshine Harvester (at the time of the case), president of the Royal Ag Soc and (some other peak business lobby, I can't recall which). The following two sources are a good starting point for anyone who wants to take this on 1) reprint of SMH article from 1948 describing the introduction of the 40-hour week: https://www.smh.com.au/national/70-years-ago-today-the-40hour-five-day-working-week-began-20180101-h0c3dd.html, and 2) the biography of HV McKay at the Australian Dictionary of Biography, which discusses CN McKay. I also found numerous Trove articles (trove.nla.gov.au) with running commentary of the case. I hope this helps someone document an important historical event in Australia's industrial relations story Prime Lemur (talk) 03:47, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Here is the link to the biography mentioned at (2): http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mckay-hugh-victor-699 Prime Lemur (talk) 03:48, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The Fair Work Commission maintains the Sir Richard Kirby archives website which has a good list of notable cases, including a page on the 40 hour case, including the decision. Many are High Court cases that impacted on the work of the court. In addition to the 44 and 40 hour week cases the arbitration decisions are 1912 Fruit pickers and 1929 Schoolteachers cases. Find bruce (talk) 04:34, 4 December 2018 (UTC)