Sue Bolton
Both Coalition and Labor federal governments have traditionally opposed ACTU applications to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) for annual for increases to the minimum wage.
However, it is only since Prime Minister
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On March 1, South African police opened fire on a group of unarmed striking road freight workers in Johannesburg. The workers were toyi-toying on the pavement, a block from a mass rally of the strikers, who are demanding a 9% wage increase, when a
Ian Jamieson, Fremantle
After four weeks on strike, 430 workers involved in the expansion of the BHP-owned Worsley Alumina plant near Bunbury in south-west Western Australia appear close to victory in a dispute in which individual strikers were
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
He was the "minister for black-outs, now he's the minister for out-Blacks", Aboriginal leader Sam Watson told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly on March 4, describing the new Queensland minister for Aboriginal policy, John Mickel.
Mickel
Figures released on February 28 by the Morgantown veteran centre reveal that the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have produced the most grievously wounded veterans since the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Of the 244,054 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
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