"In the early seventeenth century, Britain took ruthless steps to deal with its unwanted citizens, forcibly removing men, women, and children from their homelands and sending them to far-flung corners of the empire to be sold off to colonial masters. This oppressive regime grew …
The contract of employment
by Irving, Mark, LexisNexis Butterworths, CCH Australia Limited
A comprehensive and systematic description of the law governing employment contracts. It examines how awards, enterprise agreements and statutes like the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and the Corporations Act (Cth) operate to modify the parties' contractual and equitable obligations.…
"For over forty years, the cotton and sugar plantations of Queensland were worked by indentured labour recruited from the South Sea Islands. Recruited? Kidnapped would probably be a more accurate word, though many of the Kanakas, as the islanders were called, were merely lured a…
"For over forty years, the cotton and sugar plantations of Queensland were worked by indentured labour recruited from the South Sea Islands. Recruited? Kidnapped would probably be a more accurate word, though many of the Kanakas, as the islanders were called, were merely lured a…