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By wowaustralia.com on November 23, 2008
A South Australian fresh produce trader has avoided legal action, despite being found to have underpaid an Indonesian worker by more than $US42,000 over nine years. The Indonesian man, who worked for the trader at a market in the South Australian capital, Adelaide, recently complained of his underpayment to the Workplace Ombudsman and was then [...]
Posted in Financial Crisis | Tagged workplace rights |
By wowaustralia.com on November 23, 2008
The Indonesian President says his country will turn to its large domestic market to maintain economic growth in the face of an expected slowdown. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has told the APEC summit in Peru, Jakarta will boost growth with infrastructure projects like power plants, and fight poverty with greater spending on education and health care. [...]
Posted in Top Stories | Tagged APEC, india, indonesia, kevin rudd |
By wowaustralia.com on November 23, 2008
Eleven whales that survived a mass beach stranding on Tasmania’s far north-west coast have been returned to the open ocean. Rescuers have been working since early yesterday to save the long-finned pilot whales, the only survivors from a pod of 65 that became beached near Stanley. It is hoped the group will be able to [...]
Posted in Environment | Tagged mass burial, pilot whales |
By wowaustralia.com on November 23, 2008
Asia-Pacific leaders were to wrap up a summit in which they vowed to form a united front against the world financial crisis, but bold initiatives looked unlikely to emerge. US President George W Bush used his final summit before leaving office to encourage continuity on the part of his successor Barack Obama on issues ranging [...]
Posted in Top Stories | Tagged APEC, asia pacific economic cooperation, barack obama, george w bush, kevin rudd |
By wowaustralia.com on November 23, 2008
Police have arrested a man over the kidnapping of two children in Sydney. A six-year-old boy and his two-year-old sister were allegedly taken from their Fairfield home yesterday morning by a man who is known to them. Police said the man allegedly threatened to harm the children before driving off with them in a grey [...]
Posted in Top Stories | Tagged child abduction |