The Turnbull government will use the looming May budget to dump plans to increase the Medicare levy to fund the national disability insurance scheme, in a shift intended to reframe the tax debate before the next election. Scott Morrison will use a s...
Educational inequality has cost the Australian economy more than $20bn, as well as contributing to the widening gap between rich and poor, new research has found. The report from the Public Education Foundation found that students at the bottom of A...
The Turnbull government has warned Senate crossbenchers it would be “economically damaging” if small and medium businesses got a tax cut but big business did not, as the backroom lobbying effort on company tax reform moves into overdrive. Guardian A...
Gig economy and labour hire workers should get the same minimum conditions as employees including access to unfair dismissal and collective bargaining, the Australian Council of Trade Unions will say. The ACTU secretary, Sally McManus, will outline...
Unions should be prepared to take unlawful industrial action to win bigger pay rises because Australia’s laws make protected action too hard for workers, an influential unionist has argued. In a Per Capita research paper, the former Australian Counc...