Call centre company TeleTech has rejected a claim by a Sydney employee
for leave following the death of his grandmother.
The company refused to let him use either accumulated sick pay, leave
without pay or annual leave, to allow him to observe a traditional
Jewish seven day mourning period.
An enquiry into the Australian Defence Force has found a culture of
suicides and abuse, including gang rapes.
One 19 year old soldier, John Satatas, was found dead at Holsworthy Army
Base in an apparent suicide. The Portugese-Australian soldier had
'Spiros' scrawled in black pen over his face
A woman who started a six-month job contract with the Australian
Taxation Office was fired 4 hours into her first day through no fault of
her own, and was then given three different reasons why.
Celeste Pridmore got a job with the ATO through the private employment
agency Skilled Engineering.
The Wal-Mart chain of supermarkets in the United States is under fire
for reportedly locking in overnight workers at many of its stores,
sometimes to the detriment of their own safety.
The New York Times reported a number of cases in which employees were
allegedly prevented from leaving a
Australian troops secretly attacked Iraqi forces a day before war was
announced by either the US or Australian governments.
SAS units attacked Iraqi positions on the evening of March 18 (Iraq
time). This was 16 hours after President Bush had given Saddam Hussein a
48 hour ultimatum to leave
A quarter of all land animals, more than a million species, could be
extinct by 2050 due to climate change.
The research by an international group of scientists found that 24
percent of species would go extinct using 'middle of the road'
predictions on the amount of global warming.
Land
This week's stories: Prime Minister's Office Fabricated Evidence on
Iraq...This Fine Australian Gets Away With It...Police Corruption
Privatised...But I Had To Feed My Starving BMW...US Environmental Report
Doesn't Mention Global Warming, Pollution From Cars...Howard Makes
Unjustified Ratbag
(apologies for ATNTF not going out last week - I was away from work)
This weeks stories: Blood Is Thicker Than George Bush...Weapons of Mass
Destruction Found In Iraq...
An American writer in the London Times has described the Iraq war as
almost bloodless.
The civilan death toll from the war
This weeks stories: Government Implicated in Siev-X Sinking...Telstra's
Family Friendly Policy Copied From Government...Branch Stacking Still
Common In ALP...But Drugs Are Better For The Economy...Quote of the Week
- Bill Gates Is Reading My Mail.
Last week's All the News That Fits reported
This weeks stories: Government Soft On Immigration Slavery...Trying To
Kill Yourself Is A Sane Response To Refugee Detention...No Cash
Discount...Government Doesn't Know Why People Won't Take Public
Transport...Quotes of the Week.
Four people have been charged with slavery in Melbourne. They
This week's stories: Government Outsources Fraud...Union Demands 8
Minutes Rest...Majority Disbelieves Official Story on Iraq...Up In Smoke.
Crime syndicates are making millions of dollars from false GST claims.
Some investigators estimate as much as 10 per cent of GST revenue is
lost
This week's stories: Ill, Legal Substances...Foreigners Bring Foot In
Mouth Disease...That Showed Em...Government To Build Radioactive
Dump...Outsourcing Works, Say Companies...Quotes of the Week.
The full bench of the Industrial Relations Commission has upheld Qantas'
decision to sack an
This week's stories: Eight Deaths Since Beginning of Mandatory
Detention...Guess They Were Right Then...Maybe He Couldn't Tell Them
Apart...Refugee Children Riot and Try To Escape For No Reason
Whatsoever...It's All Under Control...Quotes of the Week.
Federal government records show eight people
This week's stories: CNN Rules!...Absolutely Fascist...Telstra Getting
Better And Better, From Some Points of View... I Don't Read Files, But
I Do Read Bank Statements...Thanks Losers...Not-Wanting-To-Be-A-Mormon
Disease Spreads...Quote of the Week.
A poll has found that a third of people in
This week's stories:
Only one in five year 12 students who go to university next year will
receive the Federal Government's youth allowance, forcing many to forgo
the opportunity, a new report reveals.
Using previously unpublished Centrelink figures, the Centre for
Population and Urban
This week's stories: Drug Squad Misunderstood Why It Was Called
That...It's Not The Colour of Your Skin, It's the Colour of Your
Money...Why They Always Stuff Your Bill Up.
(Last week's All the News That Fits reported that Peter Hollingworth
received a $310,000 salary while he was
This week's stories:
But The Taxpayers Probably Asked For It...Dramatic Rescue...Government
Believes It Is Losing to Public Sector Unions...Weapons of Mass
Destruction Found...Quotes of the Week.
Former Governor-General Peter Hollingworth will get a lifetime
government pension worth at least
Tim Collins, one of the people accused of helping refugees escape from
Woomera, is now out on bail.
This week's stories: US Liberates More Iraqis...To the Joy of the
Australian People...All The News That Fits Editor Blows Own
Trumpet...Quotes of the Week.
US troops killed seven Iraqi women
One of the people accused of helping refugees escape from Woomera is
asking for letters of support. Please write to:
timothy daniel collins
port augusta prison
po box 6
port augusta
SA 5700
(Tim can't receive any books or papers but can receive cash and money
orders).
This week's stories:
One of the people accused of helping refugees escape from Woomera is
asking for letters of support. Please write to:
timothy daniel collins
port augusta prison
po box 6
port augusta
SA 5700
(Tim can't receive any books or papers but can receive cash and money
orders).
This week's stories:
One of the people accused of helping refugees escape from Woomera is
asking for letters of support. Please write to:
timothy daniel collins
port augusta prison
po box 6
port augusta
SA 5700
(Tim can't receive any books or papers but can receive cash and money
orders).
This week's stories:
One of the people accused of helping refugees escape from Woomera is
asking for letters of support. Please write to:
timothy daniel collins
port augusta prison
po box 6
port augusta
SA 5700
(Tim can't receive any books or papers).
This week's stories: Alcohol Industry Relies on Binge Drinkers
Correction: Last week's All the News That Fits quoted a story by the
Financial Review which gave some figures on the call centre industry.
The Financial Review seems to have made a mistake with them.
This week's stories: Australian Soldier Charged Over East
Timor...Nursing Home Crisis
This week's stories: Invasion of Iraq to Reward American Oil
Companies...Call Centres Get Worse...Insane Prisoner Can Be Forcibly
Medicated then Executed...Gap Between Rich and Poor Not Wide Enough Say
Employers...NSW Education Department Just Knew It Was Going To Fail,
Didn't Bother Turning Up
To the person who mailed me a donation recently - thanks! Could you
email me, because I couldn't contact the email in your letter.
This week's stories: Grief, Anxiety and Confusion - We Must Be in
Church...Democracy Not Very High on the Agenda For US...Threat To World
Peace From Rogue
This week's stories: Low-Income Schools Failing Because of Lack of
Funding...Resistance is Useful...Some Terrorists are More Equal Than
Others...the War on Terror Successfully Stamps Out Amateur
Photography...No Link Between Iraq and Al Qa*da...Family Driven Insane
By Immigration
This week's stories: Some Fires Are More Important Than Others...Bosses
Agree, There's No Comparison Between Our Pay and the Plebs'...A
Terrorist Is Someone Who's On Their Side...Lying Gets the Swoosh of
Approval...Train Drivers Refuse to Move Ammunition for Gulf War...Quote
of the Week
This week's stories: Running People Over Legalised...No, Blood For
Oil...US Government Says It Doesn't Need Evidence...Most People Don't
Trust Politicians...Cost-Effective and Streamlined, But At the Same Time
Not Very Good...Nestle Tries To Get Blood From A Stone...A Terrorist Is
Someone
This week's stories: Police May Have Murdered Suspect...Treat People
Like Animals, and Funnily Enough...Private Schools Allowed to Persecute
Students...Police and ASIO To Get New Powers By the Back
Door?...Internet Filters Engage in Secret Censorship...37 Months' Jail
For Joking About the
This week's stories: Free Choice Is Fine But People Aren't Choosing
What The Government Wants...US Government Favours Nuclear War...And
Decides They Own the Moon...Kerry Packer Stole My Water...Papua New
Guinea Still A Colony.
The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Tony Abbott,
This week's stories: Former ALP Premier and Minister Says Party Now the
Same as the Liberals...Is That A Sigh of Relief Or Are You Just
Dying?...A Terrorist is Whoever We Call A Terrorist...Government May
Have Been Able to Save 353 Refugees...
A senior member of the Labor Party has quit her
This week's stories: Breaking And Entering to be Legalised...The 'I'd
Quite Like A Holiday In The Pacific' Solution...It's Not Assault When
Your Boss Does It...No Connection Between Refugees, and Terrorists
Trying to Enter Australia...Quote of the week.
Police will have the power to secretly
This week's stories: Government Ignored Rape...Nursing Home Crisis
Impacting On Public Hospital System...Another Liberal Party...It's Not
Terror When Our Government Does It...
An asylum seeker was gang raped in an Australian jail and this was
ignored by authorities, who later sent him to the
This week's stories: Proof That Bosses Are Worse Than Useless...New
Refugee Centre Has Same Old Brutality...I Don't Care What You Want,
You're Getting Freedom of Choice...
Like many people in Argentina, the employees at the Grissinopoli bread
factory were caught up in the country's economic
This week's stories: Detention Centre Worker Fired For Refusing To Beat
Refugees...Government Against Some Terrorism...Government Lied About
Refguees To Win Election...And Here We Go Again...
A gym instructor working at a refugee detention centre has been sacked
after she refused to beat a
This week's stories: Rape Not That Serious, According to Victorian
Legal System...Equal Opportunity Isn't For Poor People...Refugees An
Easier Target Than Terrorists...It's Official: Bosses Are Evil and
Insane...Quote of the Week.
One rapist convicted in Victoria last year was given a
This week's stories: Jails Creating Criminals...New York Firefighters
Get Words But No More...Selective Compassion After Bali Bombing...
A former nurse at a jail has said that criminals are routinely
brutalised to the point that jail makes them far more likely to commit
serious crimes, not
This week's stories: License to Kill...Labor Leader Tries to Stop
Debate...Union Leader Could Be Jailed for Protecting Shop
Stewards...Woman To Be Deported, Seperated From Child...Public Service
Heads Out Of Touch...Refugee Put in Danger By Immigration Department...
Murderers are having their
This week's stories: Private Trams Efficient At Collecting Corporate
Welfare...Wealth Gap Not Too Bad On Paper...WEF Blockade Violence Never
Happened...Support For War Decreases...Ruddock's Daughter Leaves
Australia Over Immigration Policy...Free Market Drives People To Suicide...
Yarra Trams,
This week's stories: Boss of the Year...Australians Favour Strong
Action By Someone Else...Advertising Industry Finds Itself Not
Guilty...Golden Circle Wins Prize for Short Fiction...McDonalds Launches
Strategy to Promote World Anti-McDonalds Day...
Employees of one of the world's largest
This week's stories: Police Engaged in Racist Harassment..Framed Three
Men..and Killed Another...One In Seven Child Abuse Cases Ignored...Casino
Authority Took $200,000...Terror At Home...Politicians To Get Further
Benefits...Catholic Church Gives Money But No Apology..Anglicans Give
Lecture But
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