and competitive industry. Commenter vostro Location Date and time November 16, 2012, 12:32PM Issues such as overwork and fatigue are certainly a major problem, based on the experience of my husband, a senior site foreman. He has also given me numerous examples of senior management deliberately cutting corners and compromising safety, refusing to provide the necessary equipment and people for a task, and demanding that work be completed within certain time-frames, regardless of safety issues being pointed out. At the same time, however, the overwhelming attitude is that WorkCover inspectors should be kept off-site at all costs. However, the gender issue seems to me to be very real. Maybe think of it like this: If the construction industry, and construction sites, were populated primarily by females instead of males, do you really believe that current OH&S problems would be occurring to the same extent? A high-ranking Australian embassy official had a secret affair with a Vietnamese spy colonel accused of receiving up to $20 million in suspected bribes from a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Police are investigating a string of top Australian horse-racing figures, including champion jockey Danny Nikolic (pictured), for alleged race fixing in what is shaping as the biggest corruption scandal to hit the sport in decades.