Australia (specifically, Victoria), was the second jurisdiction in the world to pass minimum wage laws. At first, Victoria’s minimum wage laws only covered certain industries: they only covered six industries that were notorious for paying low wages. By 1904, these minimum wage laws had grown ...
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The Story of Minimum Wage in Australia examines the history of work and wages in Australia, and the importance of struggles undertaken to improve conditions for people in the country. Although successfully achieving a number of goals (such as the idea of a weekend) the fight to improve working...
Review(s) of: Waltzing Matilda and the Sunshine Harvester factory: The early history of the arbitration court, the Australian minimum wage, working hours and paid leave, by Reg Hamilton, Fair Work Australia, Melbourne, 2011, pp. 233, $35... ...
James Frampton complained in a letter to the prime minister and the group was sentenced to live in Australia. There was a huge public outcry, with 800,000 English people petitioning in their support. There was also an organized march, which was almost without precedent. Most conspirators were...
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Following the historic vote to the leave the EU, the UK moved from a system of free movement to a points-based system akin to that used in Australia. Under the new system, which was adopted in on 1 January 2021, potential migrants must score up to 70 points t...
The minimum wage for men and women is the same. Discriminatory rules, which hampered female participation in the civil service, have been removed. Nevertheless, men continue to hold the more important positions. The Relative Status of Women and Men. Gender-oriented groups work for the re-...
Geoscience Australia classifies the Lower Lakes as part of a wave dominated barrier estuary with positive annual hydrodynamics. (Ryan et al., Conceptual Models of Australia’s Estuaries and Coastal Waterways: Application for Coastal Resource Management, Geoscience Australia Record 2003/09. See appendi...
She described the time as “Since the Crimean War, which is always on their minds, and because there is not a single warship in the Melbourne harbour, they are always imagining that the Russians are going to attempt an invasion to pillage the gold of the whole of Australia.” This fear...