Export processing zone style developments (EPZ style developments) are industrial estates and stand alone enterprises predominantly engaged in manufacturing for the export market under customs free conditions. The relationship between EPZ style developments, labour and women is firstly that three quarters of the workforce in EPZ style developments are women. Secondly, the model of labour regulation in EPZ style developments exemplifies the theme of labour subordination. With the growth in EPZ style developments in an AlE such as Australia, the article poses the following questions: If EPZ style developments continue to grow in Australia, will women predominate in Australian EPZ style workforces as they do elsewhere? Can a point for convergence between Asian NIEs and AlEs frameworks of governance be identified by studying the regulation of EPZ labour? And, if this occurs, what are the implications that this scenario holds for the regulation of women's work in Australia in the future?