A union heavy who helped install Julia Gillard as prime minister now threatens to turn against her not because of her backflip on a carbon tax, but a backdown on supporting mandated rates of pay for truck drivers. It’s an age-old argument.
Trucks
Woolies wants a bigger train set, but keeps on trucking
Woolworths says it would happily transfer more of its freight from road to rail if there was an inland Melbourne-Brisbane line, writes Angus Kidman, a freelance writer.
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