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News Archive - September 2007
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28th September, 2007 Workplace Minister Joe Hockey's comments on Brisbane radio are confirmation the Liberal Party intends to push more kids onto AWAs if the Howard Government wins the coming election.
Source: The Australian - Julie Tullberg
27th September, 2007 20,000 Victorian workers have condemned the Federal Government's IR laws during a march through central Melbourne.
Source: SMH
27th September, 2007 AAPT-Powertel, an Australian subsidiary of Telecom New Zealand, has hinted at interest in the troubled Commander Communications.
Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan
27th September, 2007 The Federal Government is closely watching the forced separation of Telecom NZ into three units.
Source: SMH - Edmund Tadros
27th September, 2007 A call centre veteran has defended the practice of 12-second rest break between calls as "industry standard".
Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
25th September, 2007 Telstra may face a form of physical separation no matter which party wins the election.
Source: Sunday Age - Jason Koutsoukis, Renee Switzer and Deborah Gough
24th September, 2007 A pro-WorkChoices TV ad featuring "union thugs" was pulled off air after The Sunday Age revealed that two actors featured in the ad were notorious criminals.
Source: The Australian - Jane Bunce
24th September, 2007 The Workplace Ombudsman will prosecute Damien Richardson, who featured in the government's Know Where You Stand WorkChoices ads.
Source: The Land
24th September, 2007 A trial date has been set for the showdown between the consumer watchdog and Telstra over its Next G advertisements.
Source: The Age - Leon Gettler and Garry Barker
24th September, 2007 Telstra could end up building the $8 billion broadband network Labor has promised to deliver if it wins government
Source: The Australian - Dennis Shanahan
21st September, 2007 The Government has accused Telstra's executives Sol Trujillo and Phil Burgess of meddling in politics.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
21st September, 2007 Telstra shareholders will be asked to approve a 50 per cent increase in their directors' pay pool as a means of expanding the board.
Source: ACTU
21st September, 2007 The ACTU has renewed its call for the Howard Government to stop wasting taxpayers’ money on its misleading pro-WorkChoices advertising.
Source: SMH - Elizabeth Knight
19th September, 2007 A question needs to be asked about the latest stoush between Telstra and the Government.
Source: The Age - Mark Hawthorne
19th September, 2007 Confidential Telstra documents reveal that the telco might have deliberately failed to build a rural broadband network.
Source: The Australian
18th September, 2007 The ongoing wrangles between Telstra, the Government and the ACCC heated up on a number of fronts yesterday.
Source: SMH - Phillip Coorey
18th September, 2007 Legal action by Telstra after it failed to win a $958 million broadband contract was designed partly to delay the broadband expansion.
Source: The Age - Mark Hawthorne
18th September, 2007 With election campaigning hitting full stride, Helen Coonan has blitzed regional voters with a letter informing them that they will finally get broadband access.
Source: ACTU
17th September, 2007 New figures show there has been an alarming growth in the number of workers whose OH&S rights are at risk under Comcare.
Source: Daily Telegraph - Fleur Leyden
17th September, 2007 Telstra has launched another attack on Helen Coonan, over a taxpayer-funded letter campaign about residential broadband.
Source: Herald Sun - Mark Dunn
17th September, 2007 Telstra has spent about $3 million giving free flights to dozens of US executives and their families who have joined the company's ranks.
Source: Herald Sun - Fleur Leyden
13th September, 2007 Telstra has switched on the country's fastest consumer cable broadband service - but only people in Melbourne and Sydney can use it.
Source: SMH - Edmund Tadros
13th September, 2007 A 19-year-old Sefton woman has been charged after allegedly making 145 nuisance phone calls to 'Triple 0' over a 10-day period.
Source: SMH - Adele Horin
13th September, 2007 Young employees who were being exploited before Work Choices came into effect, suffer more under WorkChoices.
Source: ABC Online
13th September, 2007 A new report shows workers in the retail and hospitality industries have lost up to 30 per cent of their earnings under WorkChoices.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
12th September, 2007 Communications Minister Helen Coonan gave up a law career to join Parliament.
Source: ABC Online - Emma Alberici
12th September, 2007 Sol Trujillo has made highly debatable comments to a US broadcaster in which he claims Telstra's mobile broadband was the fastest in the world.
Source: The Australian - Emma Ambler
12th September, 2007 Sol Trujillo says a change of government could not make things any worse for Australia's telecommunications policy.
Source: SMH
11th September, 2007 The market's dog stock, Commander Communications, the former Telstra subsidiary, plumbed an all-time low yesterday as pressure mounted on its chief executive.
Source: SMH
11th September, 2007 Telstra boss Sol Trujillo says he is not fazed by possible competition from Deutsche Telekom, Europe's biggest telecommunication company,
Source: The Australian - Susannah Moran
11th September, 2007 Telstra and the Howard Government are gearing up for a court stoush this week in a case that could cost shareholders - or taxpayers - millions of dollars
Source: Daily Telegraph
11th September, 2007 John Howard last night apologised for WorkChoice laws he admitted had unnerved people and made them uneasy about the future.
Source: ABC Online
10th September, 2007 Victorian deputy premier Rob Hulls says a new report shows job security is a thing of the past under WorkChoices.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
10th September, 2007 The Federal Government has finally signed a controversial deal to hand over almost $1 billion for broadband services in the bush to an Optus-led consortium.
Source: ABC Online
7th September, 2007 The coal mining union (CFMEU) has launched a million dollar advertising campaign on climate change, national president Tony Maher arguing that a clean energy target is essential to deliver job security for coal miners.
Source: ABC Online
7th September, 2007 The Federal Court has found that the Commonwealth Government acted illegally by discriminating against public servants.
Source: ABC Online
6th September, 2007 The union representing Tasmania's postal workers (CEPU) is appealing to Australia Post management to come back to the negotiating table.
Source: SMH - Mark Davis
6th September, 2007 A backlog of more than 100,000 workplace agreements is waiting to be assessed under the Federal Government's "fairness test".
Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
5th September, 2007 Optus could emerge as a counter-bidder for a share of wireless broadband company, Unwired.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
4th September, 2007 Shares in the struggling IT equipment supply company Commander - one of the sharemarket's worst performers this year - fell more than 9 per cent yesterday,
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
4th September, 2007 Europe's biggest telecommunications company, Deutsche Telekom, has confirmed it wants to bid as part of a consortium to build a multi-billion-dollar high-speed broadband network in Australia.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
4th September, 2007 Telstra will slash its field maintenance contractor base from more than 100 companies to three to cut costs and improve productivity.
Source: SMH - Michael Evans
3rd September, 2007 Rupert Murdoch, Sol Trujillo and Peter Lowy, have donated thousands of dollars to candidates in next year's US presidential election.
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