A ustralia’s big four banks – the National, Commonwealth, ANZ and Westpac – have just announced record profits of over $8 billion, while community concern about their operations has never been higher. Concerns about the operations have centred on four issues: widespread branch closures (particularly in country areas), slashing the size of the workforce, high…
While the focus of the recently-concluded Telecommunications Service Inquiry involved the standard of services delivered to rural Australia, the report indirectly raised again the question of how to provide adequate infrastructure for Australians living outside the capital cities. The Inquiry recommended that this should be done through a widening of competition in telecommunications rather than…
Connecting Australia, the Report of the Telecommunications Service Inquiry, has reported major deficiencies in Telstra’s services in rural and regional areas, and called for an immediate improvement in services to give Australians living in remote areas access to better quality communications services. The Inquiry was commissioned last March by the Minister for Communications, Senator Richard…
Peter Westmore is President of the National Civic Council Confirmation that biologists working for a private company in Australia, Stem Cell Sciences, have experimented with inserting human genetic material into the ova of pigs to produce animal-human hybrid embryos, will shock Australians into demanding, at the least, a moratorium on further experimentation of this type.…