return to work

What are the rights of the employee and then employer to return to the office? By Erin Kidd, Senior Lawyer As Australia commences it’s return to normality, the internet is already abuzz with questions about the return of employees to their workplaces. When will it happen? How will it happen? And,Read More →

1 million Aussies unemployed

As Australia is managing its pugilistic fight with COVID-19 well, the nation’s leaders are starting to look for possible scenarios on the ‘other side’. And hearing Prime Minister Scott Morrison today, the picture is very bleak on the ‘other side’. Mr Morrison says Australia has 1 million unemployed having lost theirRead More →

COVID-19 vaccine

World leaders, organisations and banks have promised $12.6 billion for research to find a COVID-19 vaccine. The funds, pledged at a video-conference summit hosted by the EU, fell just short of the 7.5b euros ($A12.8b) being sought, but it’s expected more money could flow in coming days. After the mega effort, onRead More →

COVID-19 SCHOOLS CLOSE

From midday March 23, 2020 Australia has shut down and entered a new era in its history. People have been told to not leave homes unless it is essential and there is widespread closure of businesses affecting tens of thousands of families whether they are small businesses or employees of thoseRead More →

COVID-19-&-Schools closures

With the exception of one or two hit with the virus, all schools remain open in Victoria. Although most parents are trying their best to keep cool, many are concerned if school closures should have already happened in Victoria to stop or arrest the spread and thus threat posed byRead More →

Google search-listWEB

If you see Google search-list 2019 Australia, you get the real picture of what was trending in 2019 – Australia. Far from the Boris’s cricus in Britain or Donald’s Tweet-Fest in the White House impeachment melee, the Australians, and rightly so, were not really looking for information the Australian mediaRead More →

Tony Abbott addressing India Foundation new Delhi

Good news for friends of Indian diaspora down under, Oz India ties – will now be Tony Abbott’s personal mission. One of the first  Prime Ministers of a country to visit Narendra Modi after his 2014 election win, Tony Abbott was back in India last month to deliver 10th IndiaRead More →

INDIA RCEP Bangkok 2019

Doubts over India joining RCEP by Dinesh Malhotra Bharat Times BANGKOK, November 5: Living in the worrisome global trade environment created by the U.S.-China trade war, Southeast Asian leaders, , pushed for a deal on what could be the world’s largest trade bloc on Sunday as officials worked behind theRead More →