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News Archive - August 2007
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30th August, 2007 Papers have been lodged in the Industrial Relations Commission on behalf of Australia Post workers who want to take industrial action.
Source: ACTU
30th August, 2007 The ACTU said that the Labor Party's transitional industrial relations arrangements were an important step towards restoring rights for working families.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
28th August, 2007 Commander Communications, one of the sharemarket's worst performers this year, has slumped to a full-year loss of more than $5 million.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
28th August, 2007 A broadband upgrade plan that the competition regulator is considering, could have calamitous effects on consumers, Telstra has warned.
Source: The Age - Matthew Moore and Malcolm Knox
28th August, 2007 Conditions in remote Australian workplaces, where two foreigners died within three days in June, are so harsh that a leading immigration expert says they are "akin to slavery".
Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
27th August, 2007 Telstra's claims its NextG mobile phone network is available "everywhere you need it" have been dismissed as misleading by the competition regulator.
Source: The Age - Kate Askew and Matt O'Sullivan
27th August, 2007 Telstra chairman Donald McGauchie was as proud as punch. The Prime Minister's former confidant sang the praises of the "tough new performance hurdles" with which he had burdened his chief executive and managers.
Source: ABC Online - Nicole Butler
24th August, 2007 At least 30 workers who were laid off when a Queensland abattoir went into receivership will not receive redundancy payments because they signed AWAs.
Source: The Land
24th August, 2007 Farmer complaints about Telstra’s controversial Next G handsets and network coverage have overwhelmed WA-based agriculture research organisation Kondinin Group.
Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan
24th August, 2007 The Federal Government has frozen the deal to hand over almost $1 billion for rural broadband services to an Optus-led consortium because of Telstra's legal action.
Source: ABC Online
23rd August, 2007 The head of Telstra has blamed the Federal Government for holding back the rollout of the Next G mobile network in the Northern Territory.
Source: The Australian
23rd August, 2007 Hutchison Telecommunications, owner of the '3' mobile brand, has posted a half-year net loss of $197.27 million, a 62.4 per cent improvement on the same period last year.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
23rd August, 2007 3 Mobile believes the escalating public spat between Telstra and Optus has helped reinforce its status as the fastest-growing mobile operator.
Source: SMH - Miriam Steffens
23rd August, 2007 Kerry Packer would have been proud. Not only is PBL, run by his son James, not paying any tax on last year's media sell-down to private equity - it even managed to get a tax credit.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
22nd August, 2007 The Communications Department threw out Telstra's bid for $600 million in government funding for broadband in the bush four months before it announced the successful consortium.
Source: ACTU
22nd August, 2007 A new government study shows that the Howard Government’s workplace watchdog is failing workers.
Source: The Australian - Catherine Best
21st August, 2007 Confectionary chain Darrell Lea forced 12 teenage staff to sign AWAs that slashed entitlements to boost its bottom line, and now faces up to $759,000 in penalties plus compensation payouts.
Source: ACTU
20th August, 2007 The Federal Government's 'fairness test' has degenerated into a farce and is clearly not protecting young workers the ACTU said today.
Source: The Age - Kenneth Davidson
20th August, 2007 The employers' TV advertising campaign uses research that cherry picks data to reach required conclusions.
Source: The Age - Michael Bachelard
17th August, 2007 The Workplace Ombudsman has launched a prosecution of Serco Sodexho, which employs more than 6000 non-military people on Defence Department sites.
Source: ABC Online
17th August, 2007 Julia Gillard says the fact that the Workplace Authority is using hundreds of temporary workers is a sign that the Government intends scrapping the system if it wins the election.
Source: The Australian - Patricia Karvelas
17th August, 2007 Backpackers with only six days' training are being employed by the federal Government to check the legality of AWAs and administer the new Fairness Test.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
15th August, 2007 Optus is entrenching its position as Australia's No. 2 telco but is doing little to suggest that it is closing the gap on Telstra.
Source: The Australian - Ewin Hannan
15th August, 2007 Telstra has sacked three more employees involved in a naked sex romp that occurred after they left an after-hours staff function.
Source: The Age - Garry Barker
14th August, 2007 If the race has started to develop really fast broadband in the Asia-Pacific area, Australia has already all but lost, a leading telecommunications analyst says.
Source: The Age - Michael Bachelard
14th August, 2007 Divisions have emerged in the business community over its advertising campaign in support of WorkChoices.
Source: The Land
14th August, 2007 Former president of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Bill Glasson, will head a new government taskforce investigating regional telecommunications.
Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan and Kate Askew
13th August, 2007 Telstra's board has denied that Sol Trujillo pushed it around when coming up with new pay deals, after complaints that his targets are too low.
Source: The Age - Jewel Topsfield
13th August, 2007 Low-paid women are too afraid to speak up about illegal or unfair work conditions or request changes to their hours in case they get sacked under WorkChoices
Source: SMH - Daniel Lewis
13th August, 2007 Telstra is pushing its remote customers onto a new home phone system that lacks many of the features city people enjoy.
Source: ABC Online
13th August, 2007 The consumer association magazine Choice says its research shows landline telephones are still worthwhile.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
10th August, 2007 Telstra's 2.9 per cent annual profit increase to $3.28 billion has disappointed investors, who pushed the share price 19¢ lower to $4.52.
Source: SMH - Kate Askew and Matt O'Sullivan
10th August, 2007 Telstra's board has bowed to investor pressure and abandoned a secret pay deal that could have delivered Trujillo and his top six executives a windfall gain of millions of dollars.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan and Kate Askew
10th August, 2007 Trujillo pocketed a salary of almost $12 million, but the Telstra boss may be preparing to leave with tens of millions of dollars as early as June.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
10th August, 2007 His company's share price is languishing but this has not stopped the annual pay of Sol Trujillo from soaring to $11.8 million.
Source: The Australian - Sid Marris and Michael Sainsbury
9th August, 2007 Telstra is being investigated for potentially misleading customers about the coverage of the Next G phone network and the performance of its handsets.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
9th August, 2007 Telstra and its rivals will have four months to lodge bids to build a $4 billion high-speed broadband network in Australia's largest cities.
Source: ABC Online
9th August, 2007 Australia's dominant telecommunications carrier has announced a $3 billion profit.
Source: The Age
9th August, 2007 In an early trial of local loop unbundling, Telecom NZ has allowed co-location in two exchanges by rival service providers, ihug and Orcon.
Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan
8th August, 2007 The judge hearing Telstra's legal action against Communications Minister Helen Coonan has revealed he has known her for a decade.
Source: The Land
8th August, 2007 The Federal Government has been accused by Independent MP Tony Windsor of delaying the backlash against the closure of the CDMA network until after the election.
Source: The Age - Michael Bachelard and Misha Schubert
8th August, 2007 Fresh allegations have emerged that Workplace Authority advert actor Damien Richardson ripped off other workers, including his son.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan and Misha Schubert
7th August, 2007 Telstra will almost certainly be forced to extend its January CDMA closure deadline.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
7th August, 2007 Optus is yet to make any financial contribution to the G9 consortium seeking approval to build a $3.6 billion monopoly broadband network.
Source: ABC Online
7th August, 2007 King Island Mayor Charles Arnold says many residents are finding Telstra's Next G coverage is worse than with CDMA.
Source: The Age - Michael Bachelard
7th August, 2007 The Government's $37 million campaign to sell its workplace legislation was in tatters last night.
Source: The Land
6th August, 2007 Telstra has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against the Minister for Communications in relation to the Broadband Connect Program, claiming the OPEL consortium was given an unfair advantage at tendering.
Source: The Land
6th August, 2007 Helen Coonan has hit back at Telstra's Federal Court action, saying that it is consumers who will benefit from the broadband competition provided by OPEL.
Source: The Australian - Lara Sinclair
6th August, 2007 The Howard Government is reinforcing fears about the loss of employment conditions in its $37 million advertising blitz rather than persuading voters they are protected, according to research.
Source: ACTU
6th August, 2007 The Howard Government's workplace watchdog has approved that it was legal for a young woman to be paid less than $3 an hour.
Source: The Australian - Lara Sinclair
3rd August, 2007 Work Choices has caused widespread feelings of panic, fear and disempowerment among voters, according to the Government's own research.
Source: The Land - Nick Lucchinelli
2nd August, 2007 Telstra is touting possible broadband speeds of a blistering one gigabyte per second as it increases the tempo of its pre-election campaign for a regulatory agreement on fibre-optic broadband.
Source: Australian IT - Ben Woodhead
2nd August, 2007 Telstra has carved another piece off its Kaz division after it sold a $14.5 million business process outsourcing unit to Fuji Xerox.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
1st August, 2007 Telstra is spoiling for a fight with the Federal Government, working on a cable upgrade connecting 2.7 million homes instead of a high-speed broadband network.
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