Source: SMH - Colin Kruger
30th April, 2006

The Federal Government has not brought an end to the sniping between Telstra and the office of the Communications Minister, Helen Coonan.

Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
28th April, 2006

Telstra will seek Federal Government reassurance that it has no plans to ask the competition watchdog to regulate its new mobile phone network.

Source: ABC Radio PM - Broadcast transcript - 26/04/06 - Catherine McGrath
27th April, 2006

The Government has announced its plan to sell off Medibank Private, but it's made no decision about whether to sell it to another company or float it on the stockmarket.

Source: Australian/AAP
26th April, 2006

A survey reveals almost a third of employees have been forced to work despite being ill.

Source: ABC Inside Business - transcript broadcast 23/04/06 - Alan Kohler
25th April, 2006

If Paul O'Sullivan of Optus and his six telco mates had really wanted to jointly build a national fibre network with Telstra, they would have picked up the phone to Sol Trujillo.

Source: SMH - Lisa Pryor and Debra Jopson
25th April, 2006

Employers have most of the power in their dealings with young workers and many bosses are prepared to use it.

Source: ABC Radio PM - transcript of broadcast 21/04/06 - Neal Woolrich
24th April, 2006

In a rare show of co-operation, seven Australian phone companies have announced joint plans to build a $3 billion broadband network. The proposal is aimed at trumping Telstra's plans to re-vamp its broadband infrastructure.

Source: The Age - Stephen Bartholomeusz
22nd April, 2006

Telstra's competitors have, in proposing a new open-access, industry-funded, high-speed broadband network, come up with a really good idea. Which is what it will remain.

Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
22nd April, 2006

An Optus-led coalition of telcos has conceded that its ambitious plan for shared ownership of an upgraded broadband network is likely to depend on favourable intervention from the Federal Government and the competition watchdog.

Source: Australian/AAP
22nd April, 2006

Telstra says it will reject an unprecedented offer from seven of Australia's biggest telecommunications companies to help with its $3 billion upgrade of the nation's broadband network.

Source: The Australian
19th April, 2006

Broadband in Australia remains slow and of poor quality because the Howard Government is distracted by the Telstra T3 share offer, according to Labor's communications spokesman Stephen Conroy.

Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
19th April, 2006

Optus may seek more than $20 million in damages from Telstra over the telco's contentious move to make its rivals pay more for line rental than its residential customers do.

Source: SMH - Colin Kruger
19th April, 2006

Reports the Government could give Telstra the go-ahead next month for a multibillion-dollar upgrade to its copper network are "overblown", according to the telco's rivals.

Source: The Age - Stephen Bartholomeusz
18th April, 2006

As the Government edges closer to a decision on Telstra's demands for protection of its returns from the proposed $3 billion fibre-to-the-node broadband network, the reasons behind Telstra's belligerence are becoming clearer.

Source: ABC Radio PM - Transcript 13/04/06 - Stephen Long
17th April, 2006

Under the new WorkChoices legislation, some lawyers believe that setting up phoenix companies that leave workers out of pocket could actually have got easier.

Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
14th April, 2006

Telstra's now-friendly negotiations with the competition watchdog over its planned $3 billion broadband network upgrade will not persuade the Government to relax regulatory restrictions on the telco.

Source: SMH - Colin Kruger
14th April, 2006

The Minister for Communications yesterday confirmed the Government would decide on May 8, the day before the federal budget, whether T3 goes ahead.

Source: The Age
13th April, 2006

The competition watchdog says Telstra's recent price increase on wholesale line rentals hinders competition, opening the door for possible damages claims from rivals.

Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
13th April, 2006

Australians will be given a chance as early as next month to give their verdict on a $3 billion plan to overhaul the nation's broadband network.

Source: SMH - Colin Kruger
13th April, 2006

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission thumped Telstra with a competition notice yesterday.

Source: callcentres.net
12th April, 2006

A new call centre, staffed by nurses, could become part of Australia's industrial relations procedure for logging sick leave. Under the new system, workers would phone a hotline and register their time off with a nurse instead of their manager.

Source: The Age - Misha Schubert and Meaghan Shaw Misha Schubert and Meaghan Shaw
12th April, 2006

The Howard Government yesterday dropped prosecutions against 75 workers who faced $20,000 fines for striking over housing infested with fleas and polluted by sewage at a Queensland coal mine.

Source: ABC Online
12th April, 2006

The ACTU says a group of Optus workers sacked and invited to re-apply for their jobs will be up to $300 a week worse off.

Source: The Age - Meaghan Shaw
12th April, 2006

Sixty Optus field technicians, to get their jobs back would have to buy their own vans for $12,000.

Source: ABC Radio PM - Transcript broadcast 11/04/06 - Peta Donald
12th April, 2006

The Federal Government's Office of Workplace Services is investigating the case of 70 technicians who were shown the door today by the telecommunications company Optus.

Source: SMH - Kelly Burke
11th April, 2006

In yesterday's Herald, Amber Oswald revealed that her earnings from a Sunday job in Warriewood Square had been almost halved after the Federal Government's new workplace laws came into effect on March 27.

Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
11th April, 2006

The competition watchdog has warned it may take action against Telstra for raising its wholesale price for residential services.

Source: The Australian/AAP
11th April, 2006

Optus has sacked 60 field workers in a bid to cut costs in the competitive telecommunication's market.

Source: SMH - Lisa Murray
9th April, 2006

Thousands of Telstra customers will be able to make as many local and long-distance calls as they want for a monthly fee of $89.90, as the company fights off the threat of internet phone services.

Source: The Age - Garry Barker
6th April, 2006

If Telstra's director of public policy, Phil Burgess, is correct, the company's long-running wrangle with the Federal Government over regulatory policies may be resolved towards the end of the year otherwise the share price will continue to fall.

Source: The Age - Katharine Murphy
6th April, 2006

The Federal Government would keep its majority stake in Telstra rather than unload it at a bargain basement price, Treasurer Peter Costello said yesterday.

Source: SMH - Lisa Murray
6th April, 2006

Peter Costello said yesterday what more than 1.5 million shareholders already know - Telstra has been "a shocking investment".

Source: SMH
5th April, 2006

The Government is expected to announce the appointment of George Patterson as advertising agency for the sale of the final tranche of Telstra shares - if it goes ahead next year.

Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
5th April, 2006

A Melbourne fibre-optic company, which began working out of a spare bedroom at home, will today sign a $100 million deal with the United States' third-biggest telco.

Source: The Age - Lisa Murray
5th April, 2006

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has accused Telstra of charging too much in one-off connection fees for rival internet providers using its lines, driving Telstra's shares 5¢ lower to $3.74.

Source: SMH - David Humphries and Anne Davies
5th April, 2006

The first test of the Howard Government's workplace relations revolution has ended with a Cowra abattoir withdrawing termination notices for the 29 slaughtermen it wanted to sack.

Source: The Australian - Nicki Bourlioufas Nicki Bourlioufas
5th April, 2006

The Government would have a hard time selling its Telstra shares, with an overwhelming 81 per cent of people saying they would not participate in the final Telstra sale off.

Source: ABC-TV 7.30 Report - Transcript broadcast 03/04/06 - Heather Ewart
4th April, 2006

It's only been one week since the new industrial relations regime came into effect and already it seems many aspects of the new laws won't be clear until they've been tested in the courts.