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| UpdatedNurses, paramedics and other frontline health workers in Victoria will be given training from today on how to deal with growing numbers of patients affected by ice and other drugs.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, work, parliament, government-and-politics, state-parliament, states-and-territories, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedIndigenous slavery in Western Australia may form the basis of a class action on unpaid wages in the state that targets the State Government and private companies that benefitted from the arrangements with Aboriginal people, a lawyer says.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, work, history, albany-6330, broome-6725
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| UpdatedMore than 11,000 public servants at the Department of Immigration and Border Protection reject a workplace deal for the third time, taking the dispute to compulsory arbitration.
Topics: government-and-politics, work, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia's scientists say the "innovation nation" is crumbling as more of them consider leaving the profession because of limited career prospects, a study reveals.
Topics: science, science-and-technology, work, careers, health, australia
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A professor of organisational behaviour thinks technology and the loss of smoking breaks have sent our 'thinking time' to the grave, so he has devised a simple healthy solution.
Topics: philosophy, human-interest, work, community-and-society, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedYoung charity workers were forced to lick underwear, cross dress and take part in obscene cigarette rituals, according to lawyers suing the marketing giant Appco.
Topics: work, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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The skin after going through the tanning process
Topics: work, hadspen-7290
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Bryan Pearce lifting a skin from the tanning chemicals using his electric pulley system
Topics: work, hadspen-7290
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Bryan Pearce's hand resting on a Scottish Highland Cow skin that he has tanned
Topics: work, hadspen-7290
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Bryan Pearce with a deer hide he has tanned
Topics: work, hadspen-7290
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| UpdatedTaking the skin from an animal, cleaning it up and putting it through the tanning process to its finished state, is what 90-year-old Bryan Pearce has loved doing for the best part of 40 years.
Topics: animals, work, human-interest, community-and-society, deloraine-7304, tas
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One of Australia's largest wind tower manufacturers will take on up to 50 new employees as part of a lucrative interstate arrangement.
Topics: wind-energy, energy, community-and-society, work, portland-3305, nsw
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Residents near the Hazelwood power station and coal mine think they will be forgotten when the plant closes.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, work, morwell-3840
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| UpdatedDennis Stokes, executive officer at Mimi Ngurrdalingi Aboriginal Corporation in the NT, says despite arts production being a mainstay for Indigenous artists and communities, non-Indigenous managers still control the commercial side of the business.
Topics: indigenous-culture, arts-and-entertainment, retail, work, katherine-0850
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Topics: coal, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, mining-industry, work, churchill-3842
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Power station workers are concerned the community will "suffer profoundly" from the Hazelwood power plant closure.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, multinationals, work, morwell-3840
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As the coal price shows evidence of a recovery, Glencore is announcing plans to restart operations at an underground mine near Singleton, NSW.
Topics: mining-rural, work, community-and-society, glennies-creek-2330, newcastle-2300, singleton-2330
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Topics: arts-and-entertainment, racing, horse-racing, sport, community-and-society, work, tamworth-2340
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Malcolm Turnbull declares South Australia has never had a prime minister more supportive than him, and the state will have a bright jobs future because of defence projects.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, federal-government, work, sa, osborne-5017, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA British tribunal rules taxi app Uber should treat its drivers as employees and pay them minimum wage and holiday pay in a verdict that could hit thousands of firms and deliver a blow to the "gig economy".
Topics: work, business-economics-and-finance, science-and-technology, united-kingdom
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A remote Gippsland community is employing unconventional methods to lure new doctors to the one-doctor town.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, regional, work, healthcare-facilities, community-organisations, community-development, mallacoota-3892
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Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, regional, work, healthcare-facilities, mallacoota-3892
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Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, healthcare-facilities, work, regional, canberra-2600
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Worker abuse, non-payment of wages, accommodation scams and threats of violence are widely reported in an inquiry into the labour hire industry in Victoria.
Topics: farm-labour, work, agricultural-policy, mildura-3500, sale-3850, melbourne-3000
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A Victorian inquiry into the labour hire sector delivers a scathing assessment of a Mildura-based company.
Topics: farm-labour, work, mildura-3500