Penalty rates bill aims to protect millions of workers
A casual hospitality worker can expect to have weekend penalty rates of about $40 an hour protected under a bid to prevent take home pay for employees from being shaved.…
Investment bank to face heat over climate commitments
Australia’s largest investment bank will be in activists’ sights when shareholders gather at its global headquarters for its annual general meeting. Environmental group Market Forces plans to have a four-metre-tall…
Calls for consumption tax to be off the roundtable menu
A push to raise the GST as part of the government’s economic roundtable is being met with resistance, with the community services sector warning it would increase the burden on…
HECS debt relief nears as Labor eyes further uni reform
Students and graduates will soon receive a cut to higher education debts but advocates say the government must do more to make university fees fairer. Legislation was introduced to parliament…
Indigenous people left ‘out in the cold’ by super funds
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are being left “out in the cold” when trying to access their superannuation, consumer and Indigenous advocates say. Rigid identification policies, culturally insensitive customer…
Big Oil Drained Australia, Now We Pay to Clean It Up | The West Report
They made the mess, now we’re cleaning it up on the taxpayer dime. US oil and gas giant Chevron has inveigled both WA and Federal governments to pay more than…
New dawn as leaders face off in first question time
Familiar battle lines have been drawn as MPs locked horns for the first question time of the 48th parliament. Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley faced off for the first time…
Thousands of jobs at risk as miner pleads for support
Thousands of jobs might be in jeopardy as a major mining company seeks urgent financial support amid calls for a Senate inquiry into battling metals manufacturers. Multinational mining company Glencore…
Worried parents demand national childcare watchdog
Parents could be forced to monitor the quality and safety of their kids’ childcare providers unless the industry’s fragmentation is addressed. The federal government on Wednesday fast-tracked the introduction of…
Nats ‘steers’ rumbling in party paddock over net zero
A powder keg has been dropped within the coalition over climate policy as dissenters push for a net zero emissions target to be dropped. Opponents of the 2050 target are…