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31st October, 2007 Telstra has emerged as the favourite operator to offer the hotly awaited iPhone.
Source: The Age - Garry Barker
31st October, 2007 New 3 Mobile customers will be given more than 60 hours of free internet-based phone calls every month.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
31st October, 2007 Telstra investors and analysts will flock to Sydney's Westin Hotel tomorrow.
Source: ABC Online
31st October, 2007 The Federal Opposition is demanding that Health Minister Tony Abbott apologise for not meeting with asbestos campaigner Bernie Banton.
Source: ACTU
30th October, 2007 A Government document shows that a re-elected Howard Government would expand the Work Choices system to the entire workforce.
Source: ABC Online
30th October, 2007 Telstra has confirmed close to 300 workers are to be retrenched across the country - 270 field and support staff and 15 network and technology workers.
Source: Herald Sun - Fleur Leyden
30th October, 2007 A further 285 Telstra jobs are on the chopping block, with the telco about to pass the halfway mark to sack up to 12,000 employees by 2010.
Source: The Age - Kenneth Davidson
29th October, 2007 When will the politicians admit reality? Telstra must build the high-speed broadband network.
Source: SMH
27th October, 2007 An investor revolt against a lavish pay package for Telstra's boss Sol Trujillo is fast gathering momentum.
Source: SMH
27th October, 2007 Telstra's amigos are playing a high stakes game with the Federal Government on regulation but the strategy could backfire spectacularly.
Source: ACTU
26th October, 2007 Another report has found that Work Choices has disadvantaged thousands of workers and delivered no significant benefits to the economy.
Source: SMH - Andrew West and Phillip Coorey
26th October, 2007 Paul Keating made a grand appearance into the election campaign yesterday, describing Peter Costello as the laziest treasurer in 60 years.
Source: The Age - Elisabeth Sexton
25th October, 2007 Telstra's lawyers will call Sol Trujillo to the witness box when the company defends a shareholder class action next month.
Source: The Age - Michael Bachelard
25th October, 2007 Telstra is taking out insurance against Kevin Rudd winning the election by rushing out an attempt to sign 1500 call centre staff to a five-year, non-union wage agreement.
Source: SMH - Andrew West
25th October, 2007 Telstra has moved to lock unions out of the workplace in the run-up to the election, trying to push through its own contract with staff in the next two weeks.
Source: Labourline
24th October, 2007 Under WorkChoices working women are increasingly becoming the victims of workplace exploitation, sexual harassment and discrimination argues Verity Firth
Source: ACTU
23rd October, 2007 ACTU has launched a new TV ad campaign warning that a re-elected Howard Government will go further with its IR law changes.
Source: SMH
23rd October, 2007 The $60 billion Future Fund is prepared to use its voting clout to protect the value of its investments, says its chairman, David Murray.
Source: The Age - Ben Schneiders
22nd October, 2007 Customers of BigPond have given it a resounding thumbs down, saying it costs too much, has poor levels of service and is not as quick as advertised.
Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan
19th October, 2007 Telstra has launched an appeal against a ruling that denied it access to secret documents.
Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan
19th October, 2007 Commander Communications will open its data room to potential buyers as early as next week.
Source: The Australian
19th October, 2007 Asbestos disease sufferer and activist Bernie Banton has attacked federal Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey.
Source: The Australian - Sophie Toomey
18th October, 2007 Bad managers, inflexible workplaces and job disatisfaction are some of the leading reasons employees take sickies.
Source: The Australian - Myles Wearrin
18th October, 2007 We're spending too much time at the office but many people fear the consequences of cutting their hours.
Source: The Age - Philip Hopkins
18th October, 2007 Australia Post has flagged further investment in its logistics arm to propel its domestic and international expansion.
Source: The Australian - Stephen Lunn
17th October, 2007 Women aged between 35 and 44 face the perfect storm of stress as they seek to balance the peak years of their career.
Source: The Australian - Daisuke Wakabayash
17th October, 2007 Microsoft links e-mail, instant messaging and phone systems over the internet, to become one of the fastest-growing segments of its business divis
Source: ACTU
17th October, 2007 The Howard Government plans to push a further 1.5 million workers onto AWAs if it is re-elected.
Source: The Age - Nick Miller and Asher Moses
16th October, 2007 The traditional home phone could soon be a thing of the past, as internet providers across the country gear up to launch "naked DSL"
Source: ABC Online
16th October, 2007 Latest economic figures reveal that $121 million has been spent on advertising the Coalition's WorkChoices policy.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
12th October, 2007 Telstra has been scolded for using legal action as a tool for publicising its campaign against regulation.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
12th October, 2007 The court was told that Telstra's bid for the $600 million funding did not meet three of the eight criteria.
Source: Herald Sun - Fleur Leyden
11th October, 2007 Every Australian will be able to access broadband after Telstra yesterday agreed to flick the ADSL switch.
Source: SMH - Andrew West
11th October, 2007 The Howard Government's workplace monitor is refusing to publish details of thousands of collective workplace agreements.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
11th October, 2007 The Government will not give subsidies to companies competing for the right to build a metropolitan fibre-optic broadband network.
Source: SMH - Matt Wade
10th October, 2007 The findings of a Sydney Uni study that low-skilled workers on AWAs earn about $100 a week less than those on collective agreements is backed by recent official statistics.
Source: The Age - Michael Bachelard
9th October, 2007 While the Federal Government has attacked academics whose study of WorkChoices it disagrees with, it has also stopped researchers from getting crucial IR information.
Source: SMH - Peter Hartcher
9th October, 2007 It is three years today since the last election and John Howard is yet to announce the date for the next, raising the question - why are we waiting?
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
8th October, 2007 'When I arrived, everyone in the company got out of bed," Sol Trujillo told a meeting of Telstra employees last year.
Source: Daily Telegraph - Peter Gosnell
8th October, 2007 Chairman of the competition watchdog yesterday backed the Government's non-separatist line on Telstra.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
8th October, 2007 Any move to split Telstra would be counter-productive, costly and delay building a faster broadband network.
Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan
8th October, 2007 Telstra's argument against splitting the company has been called into question by Australian investment bank Babcock & Brown.
Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
8th October, 2007 Three years ago, Paul O'Sullivan was far and away the Australian telco sector's best-regarded executive.
Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
5th October, 2007 Struggling telco Commander could hold a $150 million fire sale of its assets as early as next week.
Source: The Australian - Glenda Korporaal
5th October, 2007 The Future Fund may fire its first angry shot as a Telstra shareholder by voting against Sol Trujillo's $20 million salary package.
Source: Herald Sun - Fleur Leyden
4th October, 2007 Structurally separating Telstra could slice as much as 20 per cent from its already struggling share price.
Source: The Age - Katharine Murphy and Jesse Hogan
4th October, 2007 Telstra is "approaching being a rogue corporation" with its unrelenting campaign against regulations enforcing competition in the industry.
Source: SMH - Malcolm Maiden
4th October, 2007 Labor will sit back and watch the Communications Minister's brawl with Telstra from a safe distance.
Source: The Age - Michael Bachelard
3rd October, 2007 An academic who helped produce the largest-ever survey of workers in Australia is seeking legal advice over comments by Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey.
Source: ACTU
3rd October, 2007 A 17 year old brick worker on an AWA was required to work 12 hour shifts for almost $400 a week less than his workmates.
Source: The Australian - Jennifer Hewett and Michael Sainsbury
3rd October, 2007 The battle between Telstra and the Government escalated further yesterday.
Source: The Age - Katharine Murphy and Jesse Hogan
3rd October, 2007 The Government is considering an enforced split of Telstra's retail and infrastructure divisions in a significant escalation of hostilities.
Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan
2nd October, 2007 Commander Communications' woes deepened after the telecommunications company was suspended from share trading.
Source: The Australian
2nd October, 2007 Australia Post workers are set to strike if their claim for a better deal on wages and conditions is rejected.
Source: SMH - Matthew Moore and Andrew West
2nd October, 2007 People on AWAs earn an average of $106 a week less than their counterparts on collective agreements.
Source: SMH - Phil Burgess
1st October, 2007 Last week Communications Minister Helen Coonan launched another misguided missile - this time at Telstra executives.
Source: SMH - Jason Koutsoukis
1st October, 2007 Telstra will urge its army of 1.6million mum and dad shareholders to vent their anger at the Howard Government.
Source: ABC Online
1st October, 2007 The federal Opposition says Telstra has a legitimate beef with the Government about regulation of the company.
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