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Salary spotlight

29 August 2009

COMPUTER NETWORK PROFESSIONALS.. read full story

China R

8 July 2009

CHINA is increasingly outstripping countries such as Australia in the share of its economy invested in research and development, meaning it will become more competitive in producing high-tech, high-value goods and services, Industry Minister Kim Carr warned yesterday... read full story

Myspace A New Fraud Market

8 October 2008

HUGELY popular services such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn are being blamed for a boom in sophisticated email scams in which criminals mining the information on social networking sites to create personalised attacks... read full story

In The Herald: 1997

9 July 2008

* The prime minister, John Howard, called for lower interest rates and laid the groundwork for a shift to a lower minimum wage and reduced dole payments. The leader of the opposition, Kim Beazley, accused Howard of trying to Americanise wages, and that this would break his election promise that no Australian would be worse off... read full story

Teacher Wage Rise 'slap In Face'

18 May 2008

VICTORIAN public school teachers who were told they would become "the best paid in Australia" in a new pay deal are vowing to reject the offer after discovering that many would still get $13,000 less than their NSW counterparts... read full story

Questions Over Schools Test

13 May 2008

PARENTS will get unprecedented information showing whether their children are high or low achievers as part of Australia's first national literacy and numeracy test... read full story

Teachers Hit At Brumby Plan

10 April 2008

PREMIER John Brumby's bid to overhaul Victoria's education system has been dealt a blow by public and private school teachers boycotting the plan in pursuit of a better wage deal... read full story

Attack Of The Digits On Eve Of Wage Review

13 March 2008

THE Federal Government is shying away from supporting the ACTU's claim for a $26 a week increase in minimum wages despite declaring yesterday that it wanted to look after the most vulnerable workers... read full story

Wage Rises Not Keeping Pace With Costs For Home Buyers

16 January 2008

A NUMBER of factors are influencing the present demand for affordable housing, according to the State Government's Centre for Affordable Housing... read full story

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