Don’t go to work if you are sick
Contributed by Glen Access to Sick leave as part of your employment, is something every Australian worker should be entitled to. Yet many of us…
Contributed by Glen Access to Sick leave as part of your employment, is something every Australian worker should be entitled to. Yet many of us…
Contributed by Ugly In Australia, we have just experienced warmest winter on record, with average maximum temperatures reaching nearly 2°C above average. Rainfall has also…
As a society we need to acknowledge that inequality is growing in Australia and this is the first step towards doing something about it. …
Contributed by Joe Montero Ross Gitten’s article (The Pen 19 September 2017) about the backdoor privatisation of Australian universities has prompted the following comments. To…
Perhaps not everyone will agree with everything Ross Gittins (Economics Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald 17 September 2017) has to say in this article…
The following article from Reuters (Mohamed el Sherif, Ali Sawafta 17 September 2017) brings news of a new agreement by the two largest Palestinian organisations to…
Contributed by Jim Hayes The United States has sent new troops and tanks into Poland and at the same time, Russia has started war games with…
Contributed by Joe Montero There is an urgent need for a cleanup in the relationship between the energy industry, government and the bureaucracy. Mounting evidence…
Contributed from Queensland The revelation that three out of the six board members of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (Naif) are tied to mining. Australian…
Contributed from Western Australia Showing a bit of leadership, the Uniting Church in Western Australia has called on the Federal Government to make an immediate…