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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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National Affairs

Heydon stands firm amid Labor attack

The unions commissioner has released emails relating to a Liberal Party dinner, as the Opposition fails to unseat him.

Jared Owens and Elizabeth Colman

Industrial Relations

Paul Wallington was one of nearly 100 workers who were sacked by Hutchison by text message and email late on Thursday night last week. Paul had worked at the company 1.5 years and at Patrick for 18 years before that, during the last waterfront dispute.

Downsizing expert sacked staff

The manager who sacked 97 dock workers by text was a downsizing expert hired by a stevedoring giant.

Elizabeth Colman

Industrial Relations

Allen Hicks, ETU National secretary (blue shirt). Picture: Supplied

Workers ‘refused leave to protest’

Construction workers wanting a day off to attend a protest against the China free trade agreement ‘banned from taking leave’.

Elizabeth Colman

The Nation

Union challenges ‘text’ sackings

The MUA is taking federal court action over the sacking of 97 workers via SMS, which has led to a six-day strike.

Elizabeth Colman

Industrial Relations

Sydney Ports workers from Hutchison Ports blockade the entrance to the Sydney Port terminal in Sydney, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015. Hundreds of workers are gathering for a fifth day at facilities run by Hutchinson Ports Australia, following Thursday night's text message informing 97 of its 224 dock workers that their employment had ended. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Warfies stand firm in protest

The dispute between the maritime union and Hutchison Ports has deepened after conciliation talks ended abruptly.

Elizabeth Colman

Industrial Relations

The morning after a car loaded with petrol drums was driven through the front doors of the CFMEU Union head office in Railway Crescent at Lidcombe. CFMEU General Manager Michael Knott (white Jacket) & NSW State Secretary Andrew Ferguson survey the damage.

A ‘kickback’ by another name

Fresh allegations of money changing hands between the construction union and building firm Thiess have surfaced.

Elizabeth Colman

Industrial Relations

MUA (and supporters) picket of the Hutchison terminal at Port of Brisbane.Sacked workers protest. Pic Annette Dew

Wharf protesters defy return calls

Protests against the sacking of 97 workers by stevedoring company Hutchison Ports persisted in Sydney and Brisbane.

Elizabeth Colman

Industrial Relations

Workers get penalties reprieve

Sunday penalty rates are unlikely to be cut before Christmas, the Fair Work Commission says.

Elizabeth Colman

Industrial Relations

Supporters of Former Canberra Raider player and CFMEU official John Lomax at the ACT Magistrates Court in Canberra. pic by Kym Smith

Membership workers’ choice: judge

Workers’ right to choose whether they are members of a union has been upheld by a court’s decision.

Elizabeth Colman

Industrial Relations

Cut penalties and ‘maximise jobs’

Tony Abbott is pressuring the Fair Work Commission to cut weekend pay rates to help jobs and the economy.

Elizabeth Colman

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