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The Facebook pages of the Bureau of Meteorology and numerous government organisations are among those that cannot be viewed after the social media firm instituted a ban on Australian publishers and people from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions says it will present independent economic evidence to a parliamentary committee today to show that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement will cause 39,000 Australia jobs to disappear by 2025.

Peak union body, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), wants political parties to get behind its push for a Buy Australian Act to be legislated, requiring all major government projects and services to use locally manufactured goods.

The federal government has awarded a contract estimated to be worth up to $220 million to Telstra Health to construct and manage a new National Cancer Screening Register, a decision which has been attacked by union peak body the ACTU and not-for-profit group, Pro Bono Australia, in defence of a not-for-profit which unsuccessfully tendered for the contract.

Today November 30, is the third 'Go Home On Time Day' - an initiative of the Australia Institute designed this year to highlight the 'pollution' of workers' free time resulting from modern communications technologies like smartphones.

The $100 million promised to Telstra for staff retraining under the proposed NBN deal has won over the ACTU, which says the deal will be good for jobs and the national infrastructure.