Interest Rates Rise A couple weeks ago, the Reserve Bank of Australia increased interest rates for the ninth consecutive time. It was news delivered along with a grim warning. It wouldn't be the last of such increases; there were several more to come. RBA Governor Phil Lowe sticks by his decision and is quick to remind…
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In the face of excruciating housing costs, workers need wage increases even more.
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How have we reached this point? Because wage growth has looked like a bumpy footpath for the past decade while corporate profits have scaled mountains.
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For 19,000 refugees who have set up new lives in Australia, there is finally hope.
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The other day I was perusing OECD’s dataset on the gender pay gap. The bar representing Australia was disconcertingly far to the right end of the graph; Australia had one of the widest disparities between women’s and men’s earnings in the OECD, at over 14 per cent. Today as I idly find the same graph,…
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Step by step, union members are dismantling the barriers between working women and equal pay.
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