Archive for January 9th, 2013
Women must fight to win equal pay
Posted by John, January 9th, 2013 - under The Canberra Times.
Tags: Gender pay gap
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An article of mine in Thursday’s Canberra Times on the gender pay gap and the need for women and their unions to take militant industrial action to overcome it. Comments (see the link under the heading) close after 7 days.
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Is there only one Slipper?
Posted by John, January 9th, 2013 - under Parliament, Parliamentary standards, Peter Slipper, Rorts.
Comments: 13
To win back our trust maybe the Parliament should open up all the expense information it has to public scrutiny. It could set up an expense investigation committee to go over all the claims of the last few years with a forensic fine tooth comb.
We have a good role model. The equivalent of the Australian Building and Construction Commission and its draconian powers could be set up to smash alleged rorting by a small group allegedly holding the rest of us to ransom through their allegedly criminal behaviour.
Dave Oliver from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Dave Noonan from the building workers’ union and Julian Assange might be good nominees to carry out the investigation.