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Controversial history of Road Safety Tribunal shows minimum pay was doomed from the start

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The federal government is rushing to abolish the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) after the tribunal issued a controversial pay order establishing a national minimum pay rate and unpaid leave for truck drivers. This latest move is not surprising as the tribunal has had a short history plagued by controversy.

The government has indicated...

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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Clive Palmer

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An administrator’s report into Queensland Nickel released earlier this week suggests that Clive Palmer may have acted as a shadow director of the company before hundreds of workers were sacked.

University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Education Nick Klomp and Michelle Grattan discuss how it all went wrong for the...

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Travelling with Timor Leste

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It took several trips before I began to understand the scale of the horror. It was 2009 and I was working in the Ainaro district in Timor Leste, not far from Ramalau - Timor’s highest peak.

A rural centre, Ainaro is built on a massive conglomerate “fan”, the origins of which can be traced into a huge head-wall scarp in the...

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