A recent study of the Australian workforce has shown that, while many have been pushed into part-time work and many job-seekers cannot find work, the main outcome of the decline of the standard working week over the past decade and a half has been a shift to longer working hours. This is a process that…
John Styles is a Melbourne writer with a background in advertising and media In the United States last October, Senator Robert Smith shone a light on what he called a “dirty little secret” of the US abortion industry: foetal tissue marketing. In an address to the US Senate, Senator Smith said: “A woman comes into…
The Federal Government recently announced that it would conduct a new inquiry into telecommunications services in Australia, before proceeding with the full privatisation of Telstra. The inquiry will examine the level of service provided by Telstra to rural and regional Australia. The three-man Inquiry is headed by Tim Besley, formerly chairman of the Commonwealth Bank;…
Mounting resentment at the failure of the Federal Government to address the problems of primary producers in coastal Queensland threatens to boil over into a loss of seats to independents or the Opposition at the next election. Among the industries most severely affected are sugar cane, mangoes and tobacco grown on the Atherton Tablelands in…