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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A Zogby survey released on February 25 has found that, a month after his inauguration, US President George Bush does not have majority support for his policies. According to the poll, 53% disagree with Bush's "overall policy", and 43% support it. The
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
Doug Lorimer
"Residents of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province some 100 kilometres west of Baghdad, have started to flee the city following the latest offensive launched by US Marines and the [puppet] Iraqi army", IRIN news, the news service of
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
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