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Community workers do essential work – and should be paid properly for it!

27 May 2010

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Australia’s 200,000 community workers do incredibly important work caring for some of our most vulnerable people.  Yet incredibly, community jobs are undervalued, often underpaid and not properly respected. Community work has traditionally been seen as “women’s work” and as a result, wages in community jobs have been restricted. Incredibly, on average Australian women are paid [...]

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