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EXCLUSIVE Employee leave entitlements should be paid into a blind personal account much like superannuation so that workers can carry it between contracts and employers, according to the nation's peak union body, the ACTU.

The move, which would add about 20 cents to the supermarket price of a can of Coca-Cola, aims to tackle obesity.

Here's why you can never trust an online food review.

Lucy Turnbull has rushed to distance herself from a $3000-a-head fundraiser in which the Liberal Party of Australia used her powerful state government-appointed job as part of the lure for party donors.

'The events of the week have emotionally and physically flattened me.'

COMMENT On top of personal factors, elections are fought on policy differences, some of which are real and many, exaggerated. So what to do when your opponent adopts the same policy? Answer: question their commitment.

Some of my husband's 20-something colleagues like to rib him about having a "famous" wife and want me to talk to them about money.

SKETCH We don't know quite what sort of after-hours life Bill Shorten MP has led, but you'd have to suspect a flirtation with blindfolds.

Political parties that dither on tackling climate change do so at their own electoral peril if two polls out this week pointing to rising voter concern are any guide.

Speculation was rife that Nova Peris would get this job, but it went to another high-profile Indigenous woman.

Should we stay or should we go? The British people are on the cusp of a historic vote regarding the country's membership of the European Union. Here's why it matters. http://ow.ly/C3Id301vg2A

The Treasurer says his opposition to same-sex marriage has made him a target in a similar way to gay Labor senator Penny Wong, who has spoken about the abuse LGBTI people receive.