A new scandal has erupted over the controversial $17 billion WestConnex tollway project.
The Sydney Motorway Corporation (SMC) announced it is considering two sites in inner-west Leichhardt for a 鈥渄ive site鈥 to be used for tunnelling between Haberfield and Rozelle, as part of the 33 kilometre motorway鈥檚 third stage. Residents opposed to the environmentally and socially destructive tollway are campaigning to reject both sites.
The misnamed Fair Work Commission鈥檚 (FWC) decision on February 23 to cut penalty rates will hit hundreds of thousands of casual and part-time workers. But women will fare worse because the gender pay gap continues.
The employer鈥檚 argument, that penalty rates prevent them from hiring and remaining open on Sundays, is disproved by the facts. (ABS) figures show that despite the mining boom slow down, the retail and hospitality sectors are booming.
Lex Wotton said he can finally relax after the Queensland government dropped its appeal against a Federal Court ruling that found police had been racist in their response to riots on Palm Island in 2004.
Attorney-General Yvette D鈥橝th announced the government was withdrawing the appeal on February 28, 鈥渉aving received legal advice about the State鈥檚 prospects of success鈥.
A Southern Brown Bandicoot that was found injured in the Roe 8 construction site in early February has been rehabilitated and released in Bibra Lake by local wildlife organisation Native ARC.
The young male bandicoot was hospitalised for four weeks after he was found by a Roe 8 contractor with wounds to his back and rump, eye injuries and suffering dehydration.
鈥淣ow we鈥檙e judging people by their religion 鈥 trying to keep Muslims out,鈥 said Stan Van Gundy, head coach of the US National Basketball Association (NBA) team Detroit Piston in response to President Donald Trump鈥檚 executive order banning immigration and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim nations.
鈥淲e鈥檙e getting back to the days of putting the Japanese in relocation camps, of Hitler registering the Jews. That鈥檚 where we鈥檙e heading.鈥
Of course, die-hard misogynist and self-confessed Sam Newman was hostile to the AFL Women鈥檚 (AFLW) league infamously 鈥渦nbelievably stupid and ridiculous鈥 on Channel Nine鈥檚 The Footy Show.
It turns out plenty think otherwise.
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Thousands of unionists march against cuts to penalty rates and reintroduction of the ABCC
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* Ros McLennan (General Secretary of QCU)
* Peter Ong (ETU state secretary)
170 people on March 1 - the day two abortion law reform bills were due to be debated. Instead, the bills were withdrawn by the mover, Rob Pyne, who secured a promise by the government that the issue of abortion rights would be referred to the Queensland Law Reform Commission.
Introducing the rally, Anna McCormack of the Womens Abortion Rights Campaign said "we're very, very disappointed about what has happened and we're more than a little angry by recent events".