Elizabeth Colman

Elizabeth ColmanEditor, The Weekend Australian Magazine

Elizabeth Colman began her career at The Australian working in the Canberra press gallery and as industrial relations correspondent for the paper. In Britain she was a reporter on The Times and an award-winning financial journalist at The Sunday Times. She is a past contributor to Vogue, former associate editor of The Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph, and former editor of the Wentworth Courier. Elizabeth was one of the architects of The Australian’s new website theoz.com.au and launch editor of Life & Times, and was most recently The Australian’s content director.

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EXCLUSIVEIndustrial Relations

Senate looks into black lung

The emergence of ’black lung’ disease in Australia for the first time since the 1970s has sparked a Senate inquiry.

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Industrial Relations

Opening of Caval Ridge coal mine at Moranbah. Photographer: Liam Kidston.

Decision exposes IR flaws: BHP

Industrial laws threaten to undermine BHP operations during its ‘toughest market conditions’ in a decade.

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ExclusiveBudget 2015

Senator Michaelia Cash at Senate Estimates at on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee at Parliament House in Canberra.

Talks begin on workplace laws

The government has quietly begun consulting on the Productivity Commission’s review of the workplace relations inquiry.

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National Affairs

Some of the 45 driverless straddle carriers, used to pick shipping containers at Patrick Port Botany Container terminal. The machines guided by radar are part of a $600 million dollar upgrade of their facility.

MUA closer to more Patrick strikes

The militant maritime union has moved closer to launching a second round of strikes at Patrick’s Port Botany terminals.

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Industrial Relations

The new crew aboard CSL Melbourne remove the protest signs. Picture by Peter Lorimer.

Pollies take up case of sacked crew

MPs have vowed to interrogate the Coalition at Senate hearings after police forced sacked crew members off the CSL Melbourne yesterday.

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exclusiveIndustrial Relations

Commissioner Dyson Heydon leaving the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption in Sydney, Friday, Nov. 6, 2015. The commission is investigating financial governance of the NSW National Union of Workers (NUW), which was headed by Derrick Belan for 14 years. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

People will be afraid ‘if report seen’

A witness who gave evidence in secret to the trade union inquiry has objected to MPs seeing the final report.

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EXCLUSIVEIndustrial Relations

Former CFMEU boss Brian Parker outside the CFMEU NSW Hearing in Sydney .pic John Grainger

Probe into CFMEU funds

The construction union and its NSW boss have come under investigation by the state’s Fair Trading agency.

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EXCLUSIVEIndustrial Relations

Generic view of coal train not far from the Anglo Coal German Creek mine, near the mining town of Middlemount, central Queensland.

Deadly coal dust double legal limit

Coal dust levels at a mine where three workers were diagnosed with a deadly disease were double the legal limits, a report says.

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EXCLUSIVEIndustrial Relations

CFMEU in bid to block access

A legal battle has broken out between the CFMEU and the Fair Work Building and Construction agency.

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UpdatedThe Nation

New ship in foreign crew row

Crew members are refusing to sail a ship in “illegal industrial action’’ over coastal licences for foreign-crewed vessels.

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