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Here is a selection of my publications. Click on the title to view the whole text, or chose a category on the left.

• Now teachers vow to strike over housing
  03.04.2008
  THE state of teacher accommodation is so bad in Queensland that security doors had been fitted to houses so damaged by termites that burglars needed only to kick in the walls. Queensland teachers in remote areas have followed the state's nurses in... read more
• Nurses vote to leave unsafe islands
  28.03.2008
  NURSES in the Torres Strait will leave 11 of the islands today, accusing the Queensland Government of failing to provide them with safe workplaces. The nurses last night voted to walk off the job after last-minute talks with the Government failed to... read more
• Nurses set for island work bans
  26.03.2008
  NURSES at 11 remote islands in the Torres Strait appear certain to withdraw their services after it was established yesterday that the Queensland Government had failed to provide them with a safe work environment. The staff held a teleconference with... read more
• Danger to nurses `ignored'
  24.03.2008
  QUEENSLAND Health knew for more than three years that nurses posted to remote Torres Strait islands were living in unfit accommodation where they were in extreme personal danger. Health Minister Stephen Robertson was forced yesterday to release a... read more
• Bligh leadership blighted by fear of decisions
  24.03.2008
  COMMENT THE latest political scandal confronting the Queensland Government -- the alleged rape of a nurse on Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait -- has brought even more evidence to suggest that Premier Anna Bligh sees herself as being a one-term... read more
• Health minister knew of nurse's island rape
  18.03.2008
  QUEENSLAND Health Minister Stephen Robertson yesterday admitted he was told of the alleged rape of a nurse on Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait two days after it occurred but took no action until details of the attack were revealed in The Australian... read more
• Nurses in need of shelters
  14.03.2008
  AN internal Queensland Health report on nurses' security in remote locations in the Torres Strait has recommended that secure ``bomb shelters'' be provided for staff where they could hide when under attack. The report, which was provided to... read more