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Brisbane council to review prime pub leases after penalty rates controversy

Mantle Group says it will seek to overturn Fair Work Commission findings over payments to casuals

The Guardian - AU · Feb 2, 2023

Migrants in massive numbers try to reach Florida. What happens to their abandoned boats?

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Grounded in sand bars, adrift in the sea or washed onto private beaches, the boats keep piling up: rafts made from Styrofoam, sailboats, hollowed-out drums attached to ironing boards.

Tribune News Service · Jan 30, 2023

Man beats shark with HAMMER on beach in horrifying video - and could face charges

WARNING, DISTRESSING FOOTAGE: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is recommending charges against a 33-year-old man after he allegedly smashed a shark with a hammer on Bicentennial Beach Park

Daily Mirror · Jan 27, 2023

Former ref's stoush with NRL escalates

An ex-referee whose British accent was criticised by the NRL and then dismissed has taken his legal spat with the sports body to the Federal Court.

AAP · Dec 15, 2022

A python is stalking your South Florida neighborhood? So, what do you do now?

A massive snake — believed to be a Burmese python — was spotted slithering through Doral last week.

Miami Herald · Dec 14, 2022

Shark-diving tourists thought they were saving fish. Instead, they helped steal commercial fishing gear

A group of tourists aboard a boat to dive with sharks were conned by their captain and mate into helping them steal an authorized commercial fishing set up in the waters off of Jupiter, thinking they were helping free tangled sharks from illegal lines.

Tribune News Service · Dec 7, 2022

Man’s body found in Florida Keys where Haitian migrants came ashore this week, FWC says

The body of a man was found Thursday near where a group of Haitian migrants landed in the Florida Keys Monday, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman said.

Miami Herald · Nov 25, 2022

What is the sticking point in Labor’s industrial relations bill and how would it work?

Independent senator David Pocock has told Labor to pull the ‘single-interest stream’ element out of its workplace bill to get the rest through

The Guardian - AU · Nov 23, 2022

Australia’s aged care workers win 15% pay rise and minister says it’s the ‘first step’

Fair Work Commission accepts that ‘feminised industries’ such as care work have been ‘historically undervalued’

The Guardian - AU · Nov 4, 2022

Explained: How Labor’s industrial overhaul could change your work and wages

The Albanese government has introduced its long-awaited overhaul of industrial relations laws to Parliament, promising to get wages moving.

The New Daily · Oct 27, 2022