TWO years ago Rob Oakeshott claimed credit for a Fair Work decision to lower the minimum shift for high school workers from three hours to a mere 90 minutes against the advice of the shop assistants union.
ON Wednesday we reported Port Macquarie had been identified as one of the hardest places in Australia to find employment with more than 20 applicants for every vacancy.
RECENTLY the Federal National Party candidate for Lyne, David Gillespie, in the local paper, was reported as saying he felt the benefits of the Gonski reforms were inaccurately represented.
FOR many years I have been endeavouring to persuade the Government to take legislative action to cancel unnecessary and unjust public holidays that are an imposition on the business community.