Scramble as contagious new strain hits Australia
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Religion bill ‘a threat to jobs of IVF parents’
Religious discrimination laws will allow women who need IVF or surrogacy to be refused employment or harassed at work by religious bodies, lawyers say.
This is an internal matter, says regional chief
Australia should not send police or troops to the Solomon Islands, the leader of the nation’s most populous province has pleaded.
Gender battle erupts at the Bar
Female barristers have hit back at claims by Jeffrey Phillips SC that the NSW Bar Council’s positive discrimination policy is ‘the confected rage of the affluent’.
Protect migrant workers now: Fels
The federal government cannot delay any longer the tough laws it promised to protect migrant and seasonal workers, the former Migrant Worker Taskforce chair says.
Push to end Pacific workers’ seasonal ‘slavery’
Proposed changes to anti-slavery legislation would give a NSW commissioner power to investigate the exploitation of seasonal workers.
Good samaritan targeted: our ‘slave trade’ disgrace
Border Force has targeted Geoff Smith, a Christian missionary in Bundaberg who has spent much of his life providing pastoral care to Pacific Island workers.
Workers abscond amid ‘slave labour’ claims
Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program is in crisis, with at least 1200 Pacific Island workers absconding from their employers over the past year.
Island farm workers sue for ‘slave labour’
The already-stalled seasonal worker program is under challenge from a proposed class action by Pacific Island workers against labour hire companies.
Even the best of friends must part …
The cruellest blow during Gladys Berejiklian’s torrid two days at ICAC came at the end, from an unexpected quarter.
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