Keywords: Industrial Action
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AUSTRALIA
- Margaret Rice
- 06 May 2008
3 Comments
Mt Isa in Queensland is currently experiencing 'lead-alert'. Lead absorption in mining towns affects children the most. Inevitably, the families who are better off will move, leaving the most
vulnerable to stay and live with the problem.
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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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AUSTRALIA
- Braham Dabscheck
- 13 December 2007
3 Comments
It seems the AFL has a double standard when it comes to its treatment of players and club executives. While the AFL was announcing its charge against Ben Cousins, Carlton Football Club was saying the price-fixing conviction of its executive Richard Pratt was not a relevant concern.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Luke Fraser
- 14 November 2007
8 Comments
We have Dr Tim Flannery and others to thank for alerting us to the reality of the changing climate. But the hardline strategies he advocates have too many sad and chilling precedents.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
1 Comment
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 17 October 2007
7 Comments
Shadow Minister for the Environment Peter Garrett has suffered substantial damage to his reputation over the Tasmanian pulp mill. What Garrett thinks personally doesn't actually matter, other than ultimately to his conscience.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 08 August 2007
3 Comments
Interviewed a year ago for the biography John Winston Howard, Treasurer Peter Costello complained about the Government's binge spending. Since then, the PM has committed many billions more, and given every indication the pace of spending will increase enormously between now and the election.
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AUSTRALIA
The Iraq situation is a lot more complex than a simple standoff between western democracy and political Islam. Until this is understood, a viable solution that takes Iraq towards genuine democracy and self government is impossible.
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AUSTRALIA
- Keith Harvey
- 27 June 2007
2 Comments
The Government’s "fairness" Bill provided that new agreements should compensate employees for loss of particular award conditions. Since individual agreements remain the cornerstone of the Government’s laws, the fundamental right of employees to bargain collectively and be represented by their union remains absent.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gil Maclean, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
- 18 May 2007
Reviews of the films Hero; The story of the weeping camel; In my father’s den and Steamboy.
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RELIGION
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 24 December 2006
The idea that neither Peter Costello nor Kim Beazley will ever be Prime Minister of Australia has been reinforced in recent months. From 25 July 2006.
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