Compensation paid to 7-Eleven workers by 7-Eleven's head office has so far reached $110 million 鈥 an average of $39,000 for each of the 2832 claims by workers who were underpaid by franchisees.
The payout is much greater than fines that could be imposed under existing laws, raising questions about whether the federal government's proposed law to protect vulnerable workers will go far enough in holding similar conduct to account.
The shine has rubbed off Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk鈥檚 apology to those men charged with historic gay sex offences, delivered in May.
Palaszczuk was hoping to score points by introducing a Historical Homosexual Convictions Expungement bill, which is now before a parliamentary committee, but it looks like she has struck out.
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Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time is a ground-breaking film that gives audiences a new window to look into Manus Island detention centre.
Hundreds听of angry residents stormed council offices on June 16 as they demanded support, housing and answers over the Grenfell Tower disaster amid accusations of 鈥渕ass murder.鈥 They听gathered outside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea civic centre and entered the building听to stage a sit-down protest. Council leaders refused to meet them.
Residents held placards demanding 鈥淛ustice for Grenfell鈥 and chanted 鈥渃ome downstairs鈥 as they presented a list of immediate demands to the council.
The dramatic surge in support for Labour in the June 8 British election was a shot in the arm for progressive people around the world. Jeremy Corbyn 鈥 who had been roundly derided as 鈥渦nelectable鈥 鈥 achieved the biggest swing of any Labour leader in Britain in more than 70 years.
Just days after US President Donald Trump Qatar for being a "high level" exporter of regional terrorism in the Middle East, the Qatari government announced on June 14 it had signed a deal to buy $12 billion worth of F-15 fighter jets from US weapons makers.
Production and maintenance workers at the Carter Holt Harvey Myrtleford site, who have been locked out by management for more than seven weeks, voted on June 8 and 9 to reject the company鈥檚 proposal for a new Enterprise Agreement covering the site.
The result of the secret ballot demonstrates that the company鈥檚 proposals are totally unacceptable to the workers.
As the celebrations marking 25 years of the Mabo decision died down, the Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Bill 2017 quietly passed in the Senate on June 14, with the only opposition coming from the Greens.
The amending legislation effectively negates the Federal Court ruling of February 2 that all native title claimants had to sign off on an indigenous land use agreement (ILUA) for it to be registered.
The US Senate to approve a $500 million sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia, narrowly beating back a bipartisan effort to block the deal.
The final tally was 53-47 in favour of the sale, which is just part of a .
There were chants and clicking knitting needles on June 9 as the Illawarra Knitting Nannas Against Gas (IKNAG) and Wollongong Climate Action Network (WCAN) joined concerned community members for a large, loud and long lunchtime rally outside the Commonwealth Bank in Wollongong.
They were there to tell the bank: 鈥淒on't wreck the Reef, don't wreck the climate and don't fund Adani鈥.
Australia鈥檚 Chief Scientist Alan Finkel presented the , known as the Finkel Review, to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Leaders鈥 meeting on June 9.
The mainstream media has focused on one recommendation 鈥 a Clean Energy Target 鈥 and the Coalition鈥檚 reaction.
Under President Barack Obama, the US acknowledged killing between 2867 and 3138 people in strikes in countries like听Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan.
In the听waning days of his presidency, Obama took some steps to听improve听transparency about drone strikes, including providing the total estimated death toll. However, a new report by the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic and the Sana鈥檃 Center for Strategic Studies says that the US听is still lagging in providing a full accounting of its drone program.