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Coalition shows it doesn't care about equal pay for women

By Mark Bahnisch on March 10, 2010

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 [...]

Posted in Feminism, Industrial Relations, Policy, Politics, Women | Tagged arbitration, asu, award system, awards, community sector, eloise keating, equal pay, equal pay alliance, Eric Abetz, Fair Work Australia, Feminism, gender equity, house of representatives committee on education and wor, Industrial Relations, Julia Gillard, labour market, making it fair, parental leave, pay equity, social inequality, social policy, statistics, test case, Tony Abbott, unions, Women, work, work value case | 71 Responses

"Letting the market rip"

By Mark Bahnisch on November 18, 2008

I’ve been wondering when someone would wake up to the fact that the implosion of ABC Learning likely poses a political problem for the Liberals. Bernard Keane has: It was the idea of making money from looking after children that [...]

Posted in Education, Media, Parenting, Policy | Tagged abc learning, bernard keane, child care, Coalition, community sector, Crikey, development, early childhood, Julia Gillard, Liberal Party, public sector, Sallyanne Atkinson | 113 Responses

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