A Catalan’s struggle
Chef Gerard Curto Rodríguez has watched from afar the harsh response to moves in his native Catalonia to break away from Spain. Lewis de Zoete reports.
Topless work takes its toll
What other people think of her is not so much of a worry. What the job is doing to her shapely body, and her health is, she tells Rachael Woods.
At the Alfred, quiet heroes know what to do in Emergency
Compared with doctors and nurses, ward clerks are never likely to be the ‘stars’ of any hospital drama. But their working days are far from dull, as Molly Davidson reports.
Sickening prospect for patients and practitioners alike
Nurses at two Melbourne hospitals a dire prognosis for the public health-care system: progressive sclerosis. Jasper Caverly reports.
Stripping away the myths, young women tell all
Adult entertainers and sex workers do it for the money, some to get through uni, not for drugs and certainly not as ‘objects’, Carla Deale discovers.
Tobacconists transformed from suppliers into pariahs
Widespread disgust at the scourge of smoking has now filtered through to retail outlets, writes Lauren van de Griendt
Into the Mystic
People who predict the future attract all sorts of scepticism and suspicion. (But they knew we would say that, didn’t they.) Tori Pearce reports.
Jail call for hospitality exploiters
The president of the Victorian Trades Hall Council has condemned inadequate, cash-in-hand payments by restaurant owners, writes Jaida Sari
Job loss builders payout call
A building company owner says he wants to help workers who lose their jobs to foreign unskilled workers prepared to work for a small wage, writes McKenzie Morgan.
How will the cancelling of the 457 Visa impact Australia’s workforce?
The federal government has announced the abolition of the 457 Visa program after more than two decades. The Burning Question’s Donal Sheil investigates the impact…