Coastal destruction is no laughing matter
Coastal destruction is no laughing matter
December 15, 2020 10.00pm
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ENVIRONMENT
Coastal destruction is no laughing matter
The storm surges and inundation being experienced in southern Queensland are a result of more intense storms arising from climate change coinciding with a king tide. Scientists have been warning of this for decades, a consequence of global warming driven by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Not only have these warnings been ignored, but Peter Dutton famously joked about the inundation concerns from our Pacific island neighbours. Are they daring to laugh now?
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Migrant workers in Sydney are being systematically underpaid and a union analysis of more than 3000 foreign-language job ads reveals offers of illegally low wages as low as $8 an hour are rife.
The analysis of Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Nepalese and Portuguese ads from December 2019 until last August in NSW found 88 per cent of the ads in community websites, Facebook pages and media outlets offered wages below industry minimums.
One worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described being underpaid by more than $100,000.
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oversight of state and territory arrangements
Last week, Australia s Foreign Relations (State and
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both houses, bringing state and territory government arrangements
with foreign territories within the domain of federal government
oversight.
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Work force? Battles lines drawn over PM s IR plan with no name
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When the Howard government was turfed out of office in the 2007 WorkChoices election, it left behind 5684 postcards, 77,893 pens and 100,000 mousepads, all bearing the name of the policy that doomed it.
John Howard had nailed his colours to the mast and went down with his ship.
In March 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard revealed the incoming Labor government had found hundreds of thousands of left over WorkChoices supplies, inlcuding mouse pads, when it entered office.
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