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Karen Iles (born 1979) is an Australian lawyer specialising in employment and human rights law. She has a particular focus on employment and legal issues relating to women and First Nations people, sexual harassment and sexual assault.
The name again changed in 1999 to Queensland Council of Unions to rebuild its local identity as a peak organisation for Queensland trade unions. [1] Other important industrial disputes in Queensland include the 1912 Brisbane General Strike, the 1948 Queensland Railway strike, the SEQEB dispute [7] and the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute.
The new legislation had a measurable impact on serious electrical injuries and fatalities from people coming into contact. Queensland's five-year average of electrical fatalities per million of population has declined from 3.6 in 2001 to just 1.24 as at 30 June 2005 – well below Australia's national average.
The Association supported increased exports of Australian uranium for power generation purposes, arguing that nuclear power produces virtually no greenhouse gas emissions, [6] is a cheap alternative to coal and oil-based energy production [7] and that if Australia becomes a major player in uranium exports it would be in a position to ensure adherence to international nuclear safety standards ...
World War II created a significant feeling of sympathy for the Soviet Union among Australian workers, and the CPA attempted to take advantage of this by industrial agitation after the war in the 1948 Queensland Railway strike and the 1949 Australian coal strike (the first time the military were used in peacetime to break a strike), and disputes ...
Chambers of Manufacturers were also formed in this era, including in Victoria (1865), South Australia (1869), NSW (1885), Western Australia (1890) and Queensland (1911). Australia's first industry association was Master Builders Australia (1870).
For service to the Australian sugar industry, particularly in the areas of industrial relations, research development and extension, technological innovation and market maintenance, and to the Queensland community through a range of cultural, health, education and sporting organisations. Jacques Nasser
Recipient Citation Notes The Honourable Robert Edward Borbidge: For service to economic development in Queensland through promoting business and investment opportunities, the initiation of major infrastructure projects, and attracting internationally acclaimed events; and to the community, particularly through support for biomedical research and educational organisations.