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Read more about the article The world of work isn’t what it used to be

The world of work isn’t what it used to be

She was a teacher, she said, at a local private school. She taught in a field in which her work excelled. She had been employed for a number of years. And she was a casual. Still. When I shook my head in sympathy, she said her sister was even worse off, having been employed as a casual in the same job for 10 years. Politicians love to prattle about all the jobs there are, just waiting for willing workers to take them on. If you have a go you'll get a go, earning a fortune picking…

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Read more about the article Where does the job-cutting road lead to?

Where does the job-cutting road lead to?

ANOTHER day, another how many hundred jobs being lost? You can blame the pandemic for much of it right now. The impact of the virus on business has forced Qantas to cut at least 6000 jobs. Australia’s dominant news and propaganda distribution network, Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited, is shuttering papers all over the country and putting hundreds more people out of work. What’s left of the universities are slashing jobs and pay for non-executives with considerable ruthlessness. Accounting firms are cutting. Law firms are cutting. But really, the pandemic has only accelerated and exacerbated an existing…

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Read more about the article The Great White “Buy Australian” Train

The Great White “Buy Australian” Train

"Buy Australian" movements are nothing new. They’ve been around as long as Australia has had any sort of industry to protect. But there have seldom been any efforts of the sort as spectacular as the Great White Exhibition Train that made a grand tour of NSW in 1926, designed to encourage people to buy products made in Australia. The Great White Train – pulling 20 carriages showcasing the best in Australian manufacturing and commerce – was the most visible enterprise of a group of businessmen and patriots who called themselves the “Australian Made Preference League”. The…

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