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Iag Axe Falls On Jobs, Dividend

10 July 2008

IAG's new chief executive, Michael Wilkins, used the company's strategic review to give himself a clean slate yesterday with some of the company's underperforming UK assets acquired less than two years ago for $1.75 billion, writting them down by $350 million and putting them up for sale... read full story

Door Shuts On Nhs Jobs For Our Doctors

8 February 2008

DOCTORS from Australia and other Commonwealth countries will be barred from Britain's National Health Service in an attempt to save jobs for British medical graduates, the Home Office has announced... read full story

Uk Spurns Overseas Doctors

8 February 2008

DOCTORS from Australia and other Commonwealth countries will be barred from Britain's National Health Service in an attempt to save jobs for British medical graduates... read full story

The Rise Of A Businesswoman

27 September 2007

IF WORKDIRECTIONS UK was just another company with strong Australian connections, the news that it has won almost $A200 million worth of contracts in the British privatisation of welfare-to-work contracts for disabled people would be greeted with approbation. But it is not so simple. WorkDirections UK is the British arm of Ingeus, the international job-placement firm created and owned by Therese Rein, the wife of Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd... read full story

Fairfax Swaps Uk For Assets Nearer To Home

9 August 2006

FAIRFAX Business Media, the financial publishing arm of John Fairfax Holdings, has swapped operations in Britain for an agreement over the Asia-Pacific assets of Boston-based IT publisher International Data Group... read full story

Uk Nurses Lured To Fill Nsw Shortage

23 April 2006

HUNDREDS of British nurses will be lured to NSW as the State Government plans to take advantage of the cash crisis in the UK health system... read full story

Doing Two Jobs Better Than One

16 April 2006

WHEN I stood for election as Lord Mayor, I was well aware of the city's complexities, having had more than two decades of experience representing the people of the inner city - and they supported me... read full story

Hot Property Neill Eyes Finishing Post

2 April 2006

MANY professional footballers are at a loose end when they retire, scrambling to retain a foothold in the sport through jobs in the media or on the coaches' bench... read full story

Tories Pin Hopes On A Latham-like 'heir To Blair'

11 December 2005

How does new UK Conservative leader David Cameron measure up, asks Annabel Crabb... read full story

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