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Write On: Letters to the editor
in 1918, combined with compulsory voting (1924). The preferential system delivers the major party ... that is the least objectionable. Both preferential and compulsory voting grossly favours the major ...
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Militant unions save workers' lives
powers of coercion. The ABCC can call any building industry unionist before it for a compulsory ... problems. Later, Tribe was called before the ABCC for compulsory interrogation. The government alleged he ...
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Desal plant an unnecessary corporate hand-out
impact statement has even been completed, test drilling and compulsory land acquisitions have begun at ... opposed to the desalination plant, advocate a compulsory "water substitution target" of 30% for ...
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UNITED STATES: Political elite moving toward reactivating draft
a compulsory two-year military term. A companion bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives by ... re-institute a draft to compulsory military or alternative national service for men and women, aged 18 to 26, ...
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UNITED STATES: Pentagon conscripts soldiers for Iraq war
to serious consideration of re-introduction of compulsory military service, with a notice posted on ... in the Senate and one in the House of Representatives, which aimed to introduce compulsory military ...
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Left re-wins Griffith University union
anti-compulsory student unionism people involved in the union". The mess surrounding the SRC this year led to ... sexism, racism and homophobia and a belief in compulsory student unionism, accessible tertiary education ...
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New act threatens press freedom
to compulsory questioning. Both detention and compulsory questioning need to be authorised by ...
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Nuclear dump opponents smell victory.
government's compulsory seizure of land for the dump last year. On June 24, the Federal Court ruled that the ... "urgency" provision in the Act as it did last year. Compulsory land acquisition could be thwarted once and ...
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More work, less pay: Liberals' plan for most of us
through compulsory work for the dole. Similar compulsory work requirements already existed in many ...
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Will getting rid of ACM free the refugees?
Philip Ruddock as bludgers and criminals. The bi-partisan policy of compulsory detention is designed to ... their political isolation. Far from being designed to weed out "criminals", compulsory ...
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No reconciliation with racism: Stop the Wik bill
of native title holders to suppress or extinguish native title rights, and that compulsory ... native title holders in compulsory acquisitions, exploration and mining leases, and protection of ...
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Exposing the myth that migrants take 'our' jobs
mainly been voluntary (at least in theory). However, management is now moving towards compulsory ... redundancies. These sackings violate the Liberals' pre-election promise of no compulsory redundancies. ...
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Choice survives in Canada
news piles up, of 24-hour waiting periods, of compulsory "counselling" (complete with colour ... pictures of foetal development), of laws requiring compulsory parental notification, of funding cuts, and ...
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Danger of compromise in WA abortion fight
doctor, compulsory counselling, a "cooling off" period and restrictions on how far into ... a waiting list of two to six weeks. Counselling is compulsory in most public hospitals and the conscience ...
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NMIT Student Union battles for survival
administrations must not require students to be members of student organisations. It also requires that compulsory ... compulsory membership. The act has no jurisdiction over the functioning of a student union. Henderson ...
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Public health: 'experimenting' at whose cost?
the right to informed choice, the AMA is continuing to push for compulsory vaccination laws. An issue ... upon school enrolment is being promoted as a law for compulsory vaccination. In fact, the laws ...
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Churches focus on Aborigines and Islanders
By Annolies Truman SYDNEY — Calls for the formation of an indigenous Australian church, compulsory ... or a separate indigenous structure within mainstream churches; compulsory Aboriginal and Islander ...
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Storm continues over NZ labour bill
become incorporated societies); compulsory membership determined by three-yearly ballots; and awards ... John Banks was booed and jeered at a rally when he declared that the days of compulsory unionism were ...
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'Undeveloping' education
benefits like the freedom to travel abroad and the availability of a wide range of consumables. Compulsory ... from the compulsory three-year arbitrary placement at the end of their studies. They are also ...
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Russian health care looking sick
a compulsory system of medical insurance. But as the public health system is starved of funds, medicines and ... now decided to introduce compulsory insurance in various parts of the country as soon as the necessary ...
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Kennett promises employment contracts, sell-offs
abolished and overtime calculated on the basis of ordinary hours over five days. Compulsory unionism is to ... be totally banned (it only remains in the building industry). Compulsory secret ballots will be ...
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Stranglehold on the print media
recommended: compulsory 10-day pre-notification of print mergers involving metropolitan, national or regional ... investment. The committee refused to endorse calls for compulsory charters of editorial independence to be ...
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For a war on waste that can win
cost is just being passed onto the consumer and it falls short of what we really need; compulsory ...
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Farmers and graziers beef up opposition to Adani and Acland mines
the compulsory acquisition of 3568 hectares of agricultural land for the rail link from the Galilee ...
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Hundreds join 'Don't Mess with the West' rally
commissioned from planning consultant Urbis to slam WestConnex. It said the compulsory acquisition of its ...