Safework Australia officials today confirmed that volunteers could be fined up to $300,000 or imprisoned for five years for breaching the harmonised Occupational Health and Safety Laws. Under questioning from…
Melbourne Talk Radio Drive Show with Luke Grant 16 February 2012 4:45pm E & OE Subject: Senate Estimates – government waste and maladministration LUKE GRANT: We’ve…
The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs will spend up to $55,000 over the next six months on a workshop run by consultants for its staff entitled…
Julia Gillard again failed to pledge a single new dollar to a National Disability Insurance Scheme when she met with the families of people with disability in Sydney today. And…
Senator FIFIELD: (Victoria-Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) (12:42): On this side of the chamber we take very seriously the Senate’s role as a place of scrutiny and as…
Sky Television News AM Agenda Kieran Gilbert and Nick Champion MP 6 February 2012 8:45am E & OE Subjects: Nielsen poll, Labor Party leadership, carbon tax, interest rates KIERAN…
Sky News AM Agenda David Lipson and Nick Champion MP 23 January 2012 8:35am E & OE Subjects: Gambling, people smugglers, the economy DAVID LIPSON:Joining me this morning on…
SHORTEN REFUSES TO ANSWER BASIC QUESTIONS ABOUT VOLUNTEERS AND OH&S LAWS Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten has accused the Coalition of running a scare campaign over his Occupational Health…
Melbourne Talk Radio Drive Show with Luke Grant 17 January 2012 4:40pm E & OE Subject: Labor’s attack on volunteerism LUKE GRANT: The Shadow Minister for…
As predicted by the Coalition, Labor’s new OH&S laws have turned volunteers into workers, effectively destroying the tradition of Australian volunteerism as we know it. Local sports clubs, scout…