January 2011
Has your work been affected by floods or other... →
The Fair Work Act 2009 does NOT provide specific leave entitlements where an employee is unable to attend work due to floods or other natural disasters.
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Wikileaks to 'disclose tax dodge files' →
On Wednesday morning former banker Rudolf Elmer will appear before a court in Zurich for the start of a criminal trial that could see him bankrupted and imprisoned.
His alleged crime is to have broken Switzerland’s notorious secrecy laws by daring to blow the whistle on some of the shady practices used by the country’s lucrative banking industry to hide client’s wealth in off-shore tax havens in...
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On The Verge Of A Global Food Crisis →
A week after the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) warned of a possible “food price shock” if prices continued to rise, the USDA downwardly revised its outlook for global harvests of key crops, sending future prices surging and fueling concerns over a repeat of the 2008 food crisis which sparked riots in over 30 countries. With riots already occurring in Algeria and Mozambique, the...
Slide Show: 18 Disturbing Things We Wouldn't Know... →
So far, WikiLeaks has released less than 3,000 cables from the 251,000-document cache, but already the media, politicians and the public are questioning the value of the leak. “It’s important,” Mitchell writes, “to review a small sample of what we have learned thanks to WikiLeaks since April and the release of the ‘Collateral Murder’ US helicopter video, which showed the...
Asylum detainees chip in for flood victims →
About 70 asylum seekers at an immigration detention centre in Darwin have offered to donate funds to Queensland’s flood victims.
The Immigration Department says the detainees will donate from the little funds they brought with them by boat.
Sydney's homeless dig deep for Queensland flood... →
AUSTRALIANS from all walks of life - including those who barely have anything - are digging deep to help the Queensland flood victims.
Homeless people in Sydney on Wednesday gave the last of their change to the cause at a charity BBQ.
The BackShed Cafe, in Woolloomooloo, put on a sausage sizzle to feed about 50 to 60 homeless people from the area.
But instead of receiving charity, the homeless...
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Record Labels To Pay $45 Million for Pirating... →
The major record labels are known for their harsh stance on copyright infringements, which in an ironic turn of events is now costing them millions of dollars. Revealing a double standard when it comes to ‘piracy’, Warner Music, Sony BMG Music, EMI Music and Universal Music now have to pay Canadian artists $45 Million for the illegal use of thousands of tracks on compilation CDs.
Twitcaps - Real-Time Image Search: #qldfloods →
All images being posted on Twitter with #qldfloods hashtag
12 January 2011. floods in Queensland hit Brisbane... →
Brisbane and Ipswich are bracing for their worst ever floods, with tens of thousands of homes at risk and fears for citizens’ safety, as the toll of dead and missing for the state-wide disaster continues to rise.
Ten people have lost their lives in the Toowomba and Lockyer Valley region, the latest a four-year-old boy who fell from a boat into the floodwaters during a rescue attempt in...
“If I find anybody looting in our city they will be used as flood markers”
– Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale - Ipswich shut down as flood rises
