Why Adam Bandt is (largely) wrong about the Qantas dispute
There’s been a fair bit of discussion around the traps about Adam Bandt’s statement yesterday about what the government should have done, or left undone, with regard to the Qantas dispute. Some of Bandt’s post seems to echo criticism from [...]
Qantas dispute: How Joyce’s actions could backfire
The actions of Qantas in locking out its workforce yesterday, led by CEO Alan Joyce who on Friday received a 71% increase in his remuneration, have huge potential to backfire. Bernard Keane encapsulates Joyce’s strategy: Alan Joyce’s logic is the elegant [...]
Coalition shows it doesn't care about equal pay for women
Writing in Crikey the other day, Eloise Keating suggested that “if Abbott wants to woo women, he should start with wages”: Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show Australian women earned just 82.5% of the average male rate [...]
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