CLA is often asked about rights concerning drug tests in the workplace. Here two Australian academics discuss the usefulness of drug testing procedures and, among other issues, question whether mandatory testing can actually hide some problems that shoul…
Australia’s northern cattle industry prospered on the backs of Indigenous men and women who worked as slaves, lived in humpies, and went unpaid and uncared for by their bosses and the federal government supposedly protecting them. Now, like dudded worker…
Dear Sir, I refer to your report “Photographer faces sex charges” by Gary Adshead, May 19, 2009.I congratulate PhotoCoffee boss Kingsley Klau, of Rockingham, for his total support for his 21-year old employee, who has been charged with child sexual a…
CLA has launched a campaign to stop the Rudd Government imposting mandatoring internet filtering – censorship – on adult Australians’ access to the internet. The campaign consists of a new website – http://www.censorfree.com.au/ – and a series of eve…
The best way to encourage people to blow the whistle on waste and corruption was to pay them part of the money they helped to save, according to ANU legal experts, Prof Tom Faunce and research associate Tim Vines (pictured), a CLA member. They explained…
The Rudd Government should move earlier than 2010 to fix one of Australia’s worst laws, the ABCC legislation, which denies building workers their industrial rights. Not for 100 years have similar wobbly laws blighted industrial relations in this country,…