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'Let us strike over climate change'

"Right now, (we're) not sure, but we want to look at the detail to see that it meets the test of a modern workplace," she told academics and students in Sydney today.

"How short-sighted is it of employers to say: `Oh, we don't want workers to go on strike about carbon-reduction solutions.'

"You'll say: `Well hang on, this is probably pretty important to your business and to the planet and to the working environment of workers.'

"We'll continue to push on that front."

I'd like to apologise to the Australian flying public, he told ABC Online.

We have been forced into this position by Qantas who seems to wish to dictate an outdated wages policy upon its employees.

"I think the fact that they are apologising to passengers is a little bit of a joke," Mr Dixon told ABC Radio. "They're the ones putting on this industrial disputation, not us."

"We're not prepared to contemplate 5 per cent," he said.

"We will have a record profit this year but we'll also have in the year coming up in about two weeks time $2 billion more in our fuel bill than the current year.

"Everybody, apparently except the engineers, realise that fuel is almost out of control, that all airlines around the world are making major changes to their business and we have to do the same."

I remind the gallery no matter how aggrieved they might feel that it is not a reason for them interrupting the proceedings of the parliament," Mr Jenkins said.

The only other action open to me would be to clear the galleries, which I am absolutely reluctant to do.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found that the licensee of QTQ Brisbane, Queensland Television Ltd, breached the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice 2004 in several broadcasts of A Current Affair about government support for children with autism which were critical of the performance of the then Queensland Minister for Disability Services and his department.