Keywords: Fair Work Commission
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AUSTRALIA
There are worrying signs that the Labor Government will interpret the grass-roots campaign against
WorkChoices in the
most conservative light possible. Catholic social thought defies any policy that results in a shift of power to the already powerful.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 29 November 2007
The power of the State can be exercised capriciously and unaccountably when the “Don’t ask; don’t tell” approach to government is immune from parliamentary, judicial or public scrutiny. It is the task of lawyers to make it more difficult for politicians to take this approach.
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AUSTRALIA
- Chris Perkins
- 21 November 2007
2 Comments
The union movement in Australia has fought hard to protect Australians' rights to equal pay for equal work, without discrimination. However the Howard Government's Work Choices legislation seems to have undermined this.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 18 May 2007
It couldn’t make it as an issue in the federal election campaign, but the Howard Government is now embarked on radical change in Aboriginal affairs.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 18 September 2006
4 Comments
It was hard to notice the recent death of Colin Thiele, arguably Australia's greatest children's writer. In a philistine nation under philistine leadership, Thiele’s quiet cultured tone and its sad silencing could not compete for proper, courteous and deserved recognition with the phony vernacular outpouring that is supposed to be our true voice.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 04 July 2006
Moira Rayner traces the sorry history of Australia’s anti-corruption bodies
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AUSTRALIA
- Eureka Street editors
- 03 July 2006
News from everywhere
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AUSTRALIA
- Brendan Long
- 26 June 2006
6 Comments
The Federal Goverment believes that church leaders will retreat from the Industrial Relations debate to their cathedrals. It does not realise that the proper relationship between economics and the good of society is a central theological concern.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Andra Jackson
- 26 June 2006
Justice has become a life’s work for the Guildford Four’s Paul Hill.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Pam O’Connor
- 26 June 2006
Pam O’Connor reviews Margaret Simons’ The Meeting of the Waters: the Hindmarsh Island Affair.
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AUSTRALIA
- Nicholas Way
- 05 June 2006
The Federal Government abhors workers using unions to bargain collectively. But there is different thinking for small business.
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INFORMATION
- Lachlan Harris, Joan Healy
- 11 May 2006
Letters from Lachlan Harris and Joan Healy
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