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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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Mining & Energy

Fair Work no fair go for mining

The legacy of Labor’s Fair Work Act has added to ‘extremely challenging’ conditions confronting resources companies.

Elizabeth Colman

Industrial Relations

Dave Noonan, National Secretary of CFMEU waiting for Former Canberra Raider player and CFMEU official John Lomax to arrive at ACT Magistrates Court in Canberra. pic by Kym Smith

Ice addicts better off: CFMEU

A television ad paid for by the construction union claims ice addicts have more rights than workers under the ABCC.

Elizabeth Colman

exclusiveIndustrial Relations

Opposition Leader, Bill Shorten, holds a Town Hall forum with his wife Chloe and the member for McEwen, Rob Mitchell, at Willmott Park Primary, Craigieburn. Stuart McEvoy for The Australian.

TWU’s $220,000 truck deal

The Transport Workers Union was paid $220,000 out of taxpayer funds in a deal overseen by Bill Shorten.

Elizabeth Colman and KYLAR LOUSSIKIAN

Industrial Relations

24/11/2015. AGM Qube holdings, Swiss Hotel, Sydney. Qube Chairman Chris Corrigan addresses the audience during the AGM. Britta Campion / The Australian.

Ghost of ’98 haunts pay battle

The maritime union could be headed for a showdown with Chris Corrigan later this year over a protracted pay deal.

Elizabeth Colman

Industrial Relations

Safe Steps call centre, listening to the calls of victims of family violence and hearing from the

Charities in staff pay inquiry

A Sydney call centre operator has come under investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman after admitting underpaying staff.

Elizabeth Colman and KYLAR LOUSSIKIAN

Inquirer

An undated handout photo obtained from the XL Catlin Seaview Survey on March 21, 2016 shows a reef affected by bleaching off Lizard Island in the Great Barrier Reef. Environmental groups March 21 urged greater action on climate change after the government declared the highest alert level over an epidemic of coral bleaching in the pristine northern reaches of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. / AFP PHOTO / XL Catlin Seaview Survey / Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Not very charitable

Charity collectors work for contract agencies and are often underpaid.

Elizabeth Colman and Kylar Loussikian

exclusiveIndustrial Relations

Call centre underpaying workers

Charities accused of ‘hypocrisy’ for failing to monitor employment practices of for-profit middlemen.

Elizabeth Colman

Industrial Relations

Trucking business owner Craig Prosser with one of his trucks at Murray Bridge SA.

Damned if they do or don’t

The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal order on ‘safe rates’ radically altered how much contractors are required to charge their customers.

Elizabeth Colman

News

New waterfront battle on cards

Patrick stevedores is bracing for MUA-led strikes in Sydney after negotiations for a new workplace agreement failed.

Elizabeth Colman

Inquirer

05/04/2016: Third Generation truck driver, 56 year old Mick Boland, is an owner driver in Melbourne. Stuart McEvoy for The Australian.

Driven to despair

A letter written by a truck driver’s wife gives voice to the despair and outrage at a Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal ruling.

Elizabeth Colman and meredith booth

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