Filmmaker Rachel Perkins to chair prestigious arts school at ‘crisis point’

Filmmaker Rachel Perkins to chair prestigious arts school at ‘crisis point’

The stakes are make or break. AFTRS is one of eight colleges warning of a looming financial crunch impacting skills training ahead of the next federal budget.

  • byLinda Morris

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Booze lobby calls in former ACT Liberal leader for help

Booze lobby calls in former ACT Liberal leader for help

Can ex-Canberra Liberal leader Alistair Coe help Alcohol Beverages Australia make a splash in the corridors of power? CBD is doubtful.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andNoel Towell
Tony Burke steals the show at West Side Story opening night

Tony Burke steals the show at West Side Story opening night

The crowd loved hearing about the arts minister’s love for Leonard Bernstein’s musical. They were less thrilled that Scott Morrison was in the house.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman
Unions warn working from home not a panacea for flexibility

Unions warn working from home not a panacea for flexibility

The Fair Work Commission is looking at whether working-from-home protections can be applied to millions of workers. But unions say there’s more than one way to offer flexibility.

  • byAngus Thompson
Lesson in inequity

Lesson in inequity

Whether it is Scottish castle libraries,plunge pools,executive trips to Henley regattas or the latest comparison between the obscene amount of money spent by a few private schools on capital works and entire state school funding,it is clear that the current funding model is failing students.

PM says working-from-home can be ‘win-win’ but not everyone is on board

PM says working-from-home can be ‘win-win’ but not everyone is on board

The Fair Work investigation into working-from-home rights is set to inflame the tug-of-war between bosses and employees over how offices run.

  • byAngus Thompson andRachel Clun
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Government should tread carefully on enshrining work from home rights

Government should tread carefully on enshrining work from home rights

Any legislating of the right to work from home should be applied fairly.

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Work-from-home battle begins – and the decision could affect millions

Work-from-home battle begins – and the decision could affect millions

The Fair Work Commission is investigating whether it needs to change the basic rights for award workers just a week after the right to disconnect was made law.

  • byAngus Thompson andRachel Clun
The after-hours phone call that gave workers the right to disconnect

The after-hours phone call that gave workers the right to disconnect

Senator Barbara Pocock retreated to her parliamentary office in Canberra for a critical meeting with fellow kingmaker David Pocock last week. The mood was tense.

  • bySumeyya Ilanbey
Ministerial staff ready to fight for their right to disconnect

Ministerial staff ready to fight for their right to disconnect

The right to disconnect has been law for less than a week,but the Albanese government is already facing a battle with its own staffers on work-life boundaries.

  • byAngus Thompson
Creative jobs fall between the cracks into a wages no-man’s-land

Creative jobs fall between the cracks into a wages no-man’s-land

Strip tease artists and actors have greater workplace wage recognition than authors,web designers and sculptors,a landmark industrial award inquiry was told.

  • byLinda Morris