114 Canberra restaurants were issued with breach notices by the Office of Workplace Services (OWS) for not meeting minimum employment laws. A total of 218 Canberra restaurants were audited. OWS has claimed to have recovered around $386,500 for 520 employees that were ripped off. The question is: how much of that has actually made it [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Howard and Humphries sell out Canberra’s hopes for water security
The sneaky stunt of the federal and NSW liberal parties is proof the Howard Government will always play politics with water.This is a very bad sign given the Howard Government’s intention to announce a water package later today. Once again the people of the ACT (and Queanbeyan!) will bear the brunt of Howard’s disregard for [...]
Radio Kate: Howard’s Sneaky Water Stunt
Transcript The sneaky stunt of the Prime Minister, Peter Debnam and Pru Goward to steal Canberra’s water supply is another example of the Howard Government treating the elected ACT Labor Government and Canberrans with utter contempt. This slimy deal reneges on the arrangement that would have transferred ownership of Googong Dam to the ACT [...]
Bishop Wrong on Linking Extreme IR Laws to Productivity
Today Julie Bishop, Minister for Education, again attempted to link the Howard Government’s extreme IR laws to productivity. When will this Government come clean and admit that their unfair IR laws are about getting rid of unions and giving more power to big business, not about productivity. Under the Howard Government’s workplace laws, many Australians [...]
Telstra makes Bywong a broadband black hole for some residents
The Howard Government’s pathetic lip service to telecommunication services for rural and regional Australians needs to be exposed once again by another example of a broadband blackspot in Bywong. Telstra has sunk to a new low. They have lead on potential customers with false promises of broadband services and pulled the pin at the last [...]
Radio Kate: Dental Care
Transcript Federal Labor’s visit to the Civic Dental Clinic explored the way that a Commonwealth Dental Scheme could assist the work they’re doing. I get a lot of feedback from the people I represent that the dentist waiting times are far too long. This is because the Howard Government closed down the Commonwealth dental scheme, [...]
Labor committed to Commonwealth dental service
Nicola Roxon and Kate Lundy visited the Civic Dental Clinic to explore further the way that a Commonwealth Dental Scheme could assist the work that they’re doing. When the Howard Government was elected it closed down the Commonwealth dental scheme pulling several million dollars out of the ACT’s budget for dental care. Even though the [...]
‘Mild addiction’ bad reason for caffeine in kids drinks
Labor is concerned that new research showing that caffeine adds little to the taste and flavour of soft drink means that kids associate the uplifting effect of caffeine with high-calorie soft drink. “I believe it is in the interest of public health to ensure that caffeine is not added to create even mild addictions by [...]
