Australia’s flagship airline is preparing to smash its unionised engineering workforce with non-union labour recruited in Asia and the Pacific, in a move that echoes the epic maritime dispute that rocked the waterfront a decade ago.
Documents seen by the Sydney Morning Herald show Qantas has engaged a labour hire company, Newport Aviation, to recruit the [...]

The proposal comes in new laws being considered by the Australian government to protect the nations critical infrastructure from a cyber attack.
The proposed powers, which the government wants in place by the middle of next year and which could affect millions of workers, have been slammed as an unprecedented and unjustifiable intrusion on civil liberties.
The [...]

The players have been told to wait for the blessing of their coach, Tim Nielsen, who is expected to require them to gather for a training camp several days before the Test squad departs for the West Indies on May 8. This would leave only a small window for Test players such as Ricky Ponting [...]