Today Senator Kate Lundy and the LHMU will today will join a local Childcare worker who has become the Howard’s Government’s latest unfair dismissal victim. Emily is a single mum who yesterday was sacked from her workplace because of a ‘personality clash’ with her employer. The ACTU will be issuing a statement on this case [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2006
Raiders 25th Anniversary: 1982-2006
I congratulate the Canberra Raiders on a fabulous 25 years in the National Rugby League competition. In 1982, the lime green of the Canberra Raiders brought the city together in a way Canberra had never seen before. For the first time the ACT community had their very own team to support. People from right across [...]
Humphries Must Support the ACT
Bob McMullan, Member for Fraser, Annette Ellis, Member for Canberra, and Senator Kate Lundy have today called on Senator Gary Humphries to support the ACT government against the attempts of Attorney-General Ruddock to intervene in ACT affairs. The three local ACT representatives are outraged by what they see as unwarranted interference by the federal coalition [...]
Labor succeeds in establishing an inquiry into Women in Sport
Visit the Senate Inquiry into Women’s Sport Web site The Senate today agreed to support a motion, moved by Senator Kate Lundy, Shadow Minister for Sport and Recreation, for an inquiry into women in sport and recreation in Australia. This inquiry is of critical importance to addressing issues in women’s sport. It aims to update [...]
Howard’s pre-emptive strike on building workers pay and conditions paid for by YOU
Taxpayers are footing the bill for John Howard’s front line of attack on building workers wages and conditions. Public Servants from the Office of the Employment Advocate have been instructed to tout a new AWA (Australian Workplace Agreement) for the construction industry around Canberra construction sites. This outrageous AWA has the effect of rendering workers [...]
Senator Kate Lundy and CFMEU ACT Branch
The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (ACT Branch) and ACT Senator Kate Lundy will be available for media comment on the Howard Government’s latest attack on workers rights. Taxpayers are footing the bill for John Howard’s front line of attack on building workers, with the Government using the Office of the Employment Advocate to [...]
Labor Releases BLUEPRINT NUMBER SIX: PROTECTING AUSTRALIA FROM THE THREAT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Link ALP Web site for a full set of Labor’s Blueprints Labor’s Blueprint Number Six: Protecting Australia from the Threat of Climate Change sets out Federal Labor’s practical measures to tackle climate change. This practical blueprint is designed to protect Australia’s environment and is a plan that will provide Canberrans with the opportunity to take [...]
Residents outraged with impact of State Circle Plan
At a community meeting convened by State Circle apartment developer Becton to discuss the proposals in the plan, neighbouring residents expressed their concern and dismay about a number of aspects of the development. The meeting is part of the developer’s obligations to consult with affected neighbours and forms part of the NCA’s broader obligation to [...]
Filipino workers claims substantiated by the Department
The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations have upheld the Union’s claims of underpayment and have found that two employees of Zeffifelli’s pizza restaurants are owed $510.92 for every week worked. The employer now has 14 days within which to pay outstanding payments to the workers, and DEWR is expected to release findings of other [...]
Humphries arrogant spray about 10 years of Howard
Senator Humphries has today had the audacity to brag about 10 years of the Howard government. But the reality is that since 1996 the Howard Government has overseen: Following unprecedented budget cuts in 1996 thousands of jobs were lost and home prices collapsed – note that this is the budget Howard said was his best! [...]
