Permanent protection won for thousands of refugees
For 19,000 refugees who have set up new lives in Australia, there is finally hope.
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We’re Winning for Women
The other day I was perusing OECD’s dataset on the gender pay gap. The bar representing Australia was disconcertingly far to the right end of the graph; Australia had one of the widest disparities between women’s and men’s earnings in the OECD, at over 14 per cent. Today as I idly find the same graph,…
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New Bill an overdue step forward in closing the gender pay gap
Step by step, union members are dismantling the barriers between working women and equal pay.
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Share Buybacks: the Billionaire Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
When I finally get around to writing my bestselling dystopian novel, it would go something like this... There would be a handful of very powerful corporations, and they would find a way to hoard wealth amongst and for only each other. They would manipulate a system that was already bitterly unfair and weighted against…
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COVID isn’t over: what you can do to protect yourself and others
If your employer is refusing to implement any of these measures, it’s time to give your union a call.
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Paid Family and Domestic Violence leave is now available for workers to use
Today is the day that paid Family and Domestic Violence leave will come into force for businesses with 15 or more employees.
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