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Discrimination is rife
 ANU economists Professor Alison Booth, Professor Andrew Leigh and Elena Varganova say that they have proved that Australian employers discriminate on the basis of race. Nationally, job applicants with Chinese names have to apply for 68% more jobs to get the same number of interview offers as those with Anglo-saxon names. Likewise, a person with a Middle Eastern name would have to put in 64% more applications, an Indigenous 35% and an Italian 12% more. < Click for more> |
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Class action filed against ALCOA
Shine Lawyers confirmed that 10 residents of Yarloop in WA have filed a class action against aluminium giant ALCOA charging that the company's Wangerup Refinery has caused respiratory problems, skin irritations, sore throats and eyes, extreme fatigue, mental dysfunction, stomach upset, blood noses, cancers and organ failure over more than a decade. The case has attracted high profile environmentalist Erin Brockovich (played by Julia Roberts in the film of the same name). < Click for more> |
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MBA Graduates look to ancient Greece
 Harvard MBA students have produced an oath, like the one Hippocrates is said to have authored in the 4th Century BC, which centrally promises "to do no harm". Some 1100 MBA graduates from 140 business schools around the globe have taken the oath. < Click for more> |
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At Last, One Trough That Politicians Have Not Discovered (well not yet!)
 Politicians have not yet cottoned on to the biggest remuneration scam going around, certainly not in Australia and most likely throughout the world. Why doesn’t Kevin Rudd claim a remuneration proportional to Australia’s GDP (even if that proportion is a very low one e.g. 0.0001%)? He might argue that the better he performs, the higher will be both GDP and his own remuneration.......... both he and his clients (the Australian community) share in the gains, an incentive based scheme where everyone benefits.
Ridiculous, I hear you say? Mike Sweeney < Click for more> |
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