Homeowners and renters worse off after increased interest rates
In the face of excruciating housing costs, workers need wage increases even more.
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Early educators are out to win a massive pay rise. You can too.
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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Permanent protection won for thousands of refugees
For 19,000 refugees who have set up new lives in Australia, there is finally hope.
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We’re Winning for Women
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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New Bill an overdue step forward in closing the gender pay gap
Step by step, union members are dismantling the barriers between working women and equal pay.
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Share Buybacks: the Billionaire Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
When I finally get around to writing my bestselling dystopian novel, it would go something like this... There would be a handful of very powerful corporations, and they would find a way to hoard wealth amongst and for only each other. They would manipulate a system that was already bitterly unfair and weighted against…
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