As relations between the West and Russia deteriorate, the imposition of a complete trade embargo by Allies on Russia appears increasingly likely. Using computable general equilibrium modelling, this column explores the short- to medium-term economic effects of such an Allied trade embargo. It finds that Russia would likely sustain sizable losses of upwards of 14% of real GDP.
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No longer just a blokes business: the stakes improve for women in butchery
Richard Cornish
Photo: Janie Barrett
Butchering has traditionally been blokes business. A stocky man with a white shirt, blue apron and scabbard full of knives. But that stereotype looks set to change with an influx of women entering the industry.
It is estimated that less than 5 per cent of Australian butchers are women, and 95 per cent of senior positions in the meat industry are held by men, according to global organisation Meat Business Women.
However, change is coming. Three years ago, just 5 per cent of students at Victoria s South West TAFE meat processing course were female. This year that figure has tripled to 15 per cent.
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Johannesburg bus service Metrobus has been crippled by strike action this week.
Union Demawusa is demanding an 18% wage increase, a 14th cheque and that dismissed employees be reinstated.
City of Joburg said the industrial action was being perpetrated by a stark minority.
As the Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality s passenger bus service Metrobus crawls through a week of strike action that has left its operation completely suspended since Wednesday, the operator accused a union it does not recognise of anarchy while the union cries suppression.
The Democratic Municipal and Allied Workers Union of SA (Demawusa) embarked on a strike at the beginning of the week. Demawusa is demanding an 18% wage increase, a 14th cheque, a transport allowance, fair pay variations, and that dismissed employees be reinstated.
Remembering the Past - 100 years ago
• (clockwise from top left) Patrick Doyle, Frank Flood, Bernard Ryan, Thomas Whelan, Patrick Moran and Thomas Bryan
» Mícheál Mac Donncha
100 years ago the British regime executed six IRA Volunteers in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin. They were hanged on the morning of 14 March as tens of thousands of people, including their families, gathered outside the prison and as hundreds of thousands of workers staged a half-day general strike in protest.
The six men were tried by the British Army at Field General Courts Martial in the Council Chamber of Dublin’s City Hall. The City Hall had been seized by the British Army the previous December because the City Council had pledged allegiance to Dáil Éireann and the Irish Republic. Now in a callous and calculated act, the very chamber where the Council met was used to put on trial six soldiers of the Republic, their judges being officers of the Army they had fought against.