Source: ACTU
27th April, 2007

Labor should ensure ‘Fair Work Australia’ is truly independent and has real powers to ensure the rights of Australian workers.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
27th April, 2007

Telstra has launched a massive sales pitch for its business customers as it prepares to force them off old technology and on to a new internet platform.

Source: Courier Mail - Michael Madigan
26th April, 2007

Kevin Rudd plans to abandon the century-old Australian Industrial Relations Commission and create a new umpire to arbitrate workplace disputes.

Source: Herald Sun - Fleur Leyden
26th April, 2007

Telstra's IT transformation will be under scrutiny today when Sol Trujillo gives an update on his $11 billion transformation plan.

Source: ABC Online
24th April, 2007

A new survey has found that four out of five small businesses think they are unlikely to hire more staff under WorkChoices legislation.

Source: The Australian - Ewin Hannan
24th April, 2007

Companies can sack a worker and readvertise the same job at lower pay under a landmark ruling.

Source: The Age - Misha Schubert
24th April, 2007

Family First senator Steve Fielding has accused John Howard of breaking his promise to keep Anzac Day sacrosanct.

Source: The Age - Malcolm Maiden
23rd April, 2007

The proposal for a new open-access broadband optical-fibre network rachets up the pressure on Telstra to come up with a competitive response.

Source: SMH - Jacqueline Maley
23rd April, 2007

The day began with a rally at Hyde Park, attended by tens of thousands, who then marched to the SCG for the $5-a-ticket concert.

Source: The Australian
23rd April, 2007

A protest targeting the Federal Government's IR policies struck a chord with music fans yesterday as the cream of Australia's music crop sang loud and proud against the workplace laws.

Source: ABC Online
18th April, 2007

Industry groups continue to criticise Labor's IR policy, saying it has not done enough to convince employers of the ALP's business credentials.

Source: The Age
18th April, 2007

Optus will launch legal action if the government and Telstra strike an uncompetitive deal to build a national fibre-optic, high-speed broadband network.

Source: The Age - Alan Kohler
18th April, 2007

Telstra and Optus yesterday passionately put their cases to be given the right to build a fibre to the node (FTTN) network.

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan and Vanda Carson
17th April, 2007

Telstra has failed to convince a Federal Court judge that it should be allowed to claim damages from Fox Sports for loss of advertising.

Source: The Age
17th April, 2007

Almost half of Australian workplace agreements have stripped away the award conditions the federal government promised would be "protected by law".

Source: ABC Online
16th April, 2007

Labor has described claims the union movement is spending $100 million opposing the Government's industrial relations legislation as nonsense.

Source: ABC Online
16th April, 2007

South Australian unions has launched a campaign to get rid of the Federal Liberal MPs holding the state's most marginal seats.

Source: ABC Online
16th April, 2007

Federal Labor says a re-elected Howard Government will toughen its industrial relations laws and IR minister admits it.

Source: ABC-TV - 7.30 Report Transcript - Greg Hoy
13th April, 2007

Broadband is heating up as a big issue for this year's federal election, if it wasn't already.

Source: Daily Telegraph
13th April, 2007

Peter Garrett will return to his rockin' ways next weekend in a protest concert against the government's new industrial regime.

Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
12th April, 2007

A coalition of telcos is hoping a dossier of alleged fibs from Telstra will result in the dominant telco being censured by the ACCC.

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
11th April, 2007

A group of telcos is expected to unveil a campaign today aimed at nullifying the political lobbying of Telstra.

Source: SMH - Alan Kohler
11th April, 2007

In the telecommunications business everyone's nerves are sticking through their skin at the moment.

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
10th April, 2007

The consortium of telecoms planning a $3.6 billion high-speed broadband network has been left "perplexed" by the Communications Minister's overtures supporting Telstra.

Source: The Age
10th April, 2007

Telecom may give shareholders as little as $NZ500 million of the $NZ2.24 billion from the sale of Yellow Pages because it needs the money to expand in Australia and build faster networks.

Source: ABC TV Lateline - Ali Moore
10th April, 2007

The Federal Court has found the ACCC acted improperly when it issued a competition notice against Telstra last year.

Source: ACTU
5th April, 2007

No extra pay for working the Easter weekend is becoming the norm for workers.

Source: The Age - Leon Gettler
5th April, 2007

Phil Burgess, Sol Trujillo's right-hand man, is portrayed by the media and Government as Telstra's attack dog.

Source: LeagueHQ - Lisa Murray
4th April, 2007

Telstra is suing its business partners, the Murdoch and Packer camps, in a messy battle over rugby league broadcasting rights.

Source: The Land - Nick Lucchinelli
4th April, 2007

Telstra boss, Sol Trujillo, has reiterated that a country-wide high speed broadband network is a pressing national priority that should transcend partisan politics.

Source: Herald Sun - John Masanauskas
4th April, 2007

The family of a young call centre worker wants to sue Telstra for allegedly contributing to her suicide

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
3rd April, 2007

Telstra has dusted off its project to build a residential broadband network worth at least $4 billion.

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
3rd April, 2007

Telstra claims it is no closer to resolving a deadlock over investment in a high-speed broadband network.

Source: ACTU
2nd April, 2007

The ACTU has called for a pay rise of $28 a week for more than a million award workers to reverse the slide in living standards under the new IR laws.