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Australia: Escalating need for food handouts

More than 50 percent of those receiving Foodbank services have a job, reflecting the rise of casual and part-time work, as well as declining real wages.

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Australia: Elderly to pay much more for care

Far from the “increased funding” promoted by the media, the changes will reduce the government’s contribution to the funding of home care from 84 percent to 76 percent.

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New wave of job losses in Australia

Backed by the Gillard government, the corporate elite is using the economic crisis to carry through wholesale cost-cutting to match the austerity measures being imposed on workers internationally.

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Australia: Mounting job losses in basic industry

Outside of mining, which only covers 1.7 percent of employees, the economy is stagnating or in sharp decline, exposing the Labor government’s claims of immunity from the international financial turmoil.

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Australian government budget cuts welfare

Labor’s measures have one goal: to force welfare recipients to compete for poorly-paid jobs and create a cheap labour pool to drive down wages.

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Qantas CEO escalates provocative campaign against workforce

Qantas chief Alan Joyce denounced the resistance of pilots, engineers, and ground crew to his airline’s plans to undermine wages and conditions as “nothing short of a Kamikaze campaign.”

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