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Protecting Workers’ Entitlements Package - 26 July 2010 The Gillard Labor Government’s Protecting Workers’ Entitlements package will provide the strongest protection of employee entitlements Australian workers have ever had.
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"Good jobs figures" hide underemployment and its consequences - 13 July 2010 One of the fears you hear in the debate over asylum seekers is that Australia is being flooded by refugees. Well, fear not. Australia is being flooded by new arrivals - but they're not refugees.
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Local skills a priority, says Crean - 7 July 2010 AUSTRALIA should reduce its need for skilled migrants by boosting its home-grown skilled workforce, Employment Minister Simon Crean says. The more effective it was in developing a skills agenda, the less it would need to rely on people from overseas, he said.
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Gillard Government delivers on New Mining Tax deal - 6 July 2010 The new Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRTT) deal announced this morning by the Gillard Government has been welcomed by our Union as a significant gain for the Australian people and our mining communities.
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Law Professor says ABCC undermines liberty - 6 July 2010 In the heated, protracted battle over the Australian Building and Construction Commission, it can be hard to separate fact from fiction. When I first looked at the law that underpins the commission, I expected many of the strongest attacks to be wildly overstated. I was wrong.
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