The decision of the Fair Work Commission to cut penalty rates for people in the retail, fast-food and hospitality industries will lead to a repeat of the unions’ WorkChoices campaign which cost John Howard government in 2007. Government spokewoman Michaelia Cashhas defended the decision. It is almost unprecedented for an industrial tribunal to reduce award…
Last December and again last month, climate scientists warned of the imminent danger of the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet as a result of global warming. In December, Dr Steve Rintoul was reported to have said that the Totten Glacier (pictured) in Eastern Antarctica was melting because of climate change. The Totten Glacier. Radio…
In the latest report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the commission published extravagant claims of the extent of child sexual abuse of children within the Catholic Church, foreshadowing adverse findings against the Church, and ignoring the evidence in its own report of substantial efforts to deal with abusers and…
As British Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, backed by a vote of the British Parliament, attention has turned to the terms of separation, which will depend on negotiations between Britain and the EU. Theresa May is standing firm. Despite an attempt by anti-Brexit campaigners to…
