Keywords: Industrial Relations
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AUSTRALIA
The new Welfare to Work legislation was implemented on 1 July. The St Vincent de Paul Society marked the day with a sad heart. National Council CEO Dr John Falzon says the new laws will see many people with disabilities and single mothers and their children pushed into greater poverty and indignity.
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AUSTRALIA
- Gavan McCormack
- 04 July 2006
Encouraging the North–South relationship offers the best hope for North Korea and the world
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AUSTRALIA
- Brendan Long
- 26 June 2006
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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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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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AUSTRALIA
- Deborah Singerman
- 29 May 2006
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With a predominantly working class Anglo-Celtic population, pre-World War II Ashfield was a green escape from inner-city Sydney. But now Chinese have settled in large numbers, and some blame them for what they see as Ashfield’s disrepair and unwelcoming atmosphere.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Alan Nichols reviews Muriel Porter’sThe New Puritans: The Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 14 May 2006
It is worth contemplating the dismal failures of conservative coalitions at state level while John Howard’s star has increased, and his own revolutionary shifts in the federal compact.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 10 May 2006
Most of the election so far has proven to be a referendum on whether we could endure having John Howard back.
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AUSTRALIA
Nick Way looks at the reasons behind poor morale among Victoria’s biggest union.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 25 April 2006
For those with a feel for European or Australian history, the rejection of the constitution in France and the Netherlands is deeply concerning.
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EDUCATION
The transition from school to work or study is harder now than it has been since the recession "we had to have" in 1990.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 23 April 2006
The interesting, and probably enduring, thing about The Latham Diaries is not Mark Latham’s critique of the Labor Party, or even what the book tells about his own self-centredness and self-destructiveness.
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