Today
- Live
- Need to Know
NSW premier commits to ‘historic’ gig worker equality
Chris Minns pledges to amend the state’s decades-old workplace laws to include ride-share and food delivery drivers; Labor’s offer for a 10.5pc pay increase to public sector workers is ‘a far cry’ from previous negotiations, says the union. Follow updates here.
- 1 min ago
- Lois Maskiell
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Three ways that Chalmers’ budget fiddled with the numbers
The financial year 2023 budget is a sharp reminder that we should never take treasurers’ claims to gold-medal fiscal management at face value.
- Robert Carling
The big surprise for CEOs under Labor
CEOs say engagement with Albanese government ministers has generally been better than under the Morrison government, despite some clashes over policy.
- John Kehoe
- Exclusive
- Political leadership
One year in, Albanese lacks a growth engine: CEOs
Ahead of the anniversary of Labor’s election win, business leaders have urged the government to get serious about developing an ambitious economic growth agenda.
- John Kehoe, Peter Ker and James Eyers
- Analysis
- Political leadership
Labor friendly to business, but not always business-friendly
Business leaders are giving the government the benefit of the doubt after 12 months into power, but are growing wary of creeping socialist tendencies.
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Letters: An artificial housing shortage
Intergenerational wealth disparities; peril for Putin; put design before manufacture; gas industry’s follies; PwC’s missing moral compass; ‘rent’ confusion; Dutton’s budget reply.
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Business takes to the airwaves to oppose the government’s IR changes
Business is keen to work with Labor, but industrial relations is a sticking point. There may soon be a major public campaign to have its message heard nationwide.
- Jennifer Hewett
David Rowe’s cartoons for May 2023
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column. You can see all of his political cartoons for May 2023 here.
- Updated
PM mulls Dutton dole proposal, defends ‘middle Australia’ budget
The government is not ruling out adopting Peter Dutton’s proposal for the unemployed but argues the better option is to get them off welfare altogether.
- Phillip Coorey
Banks, telcos and social media to be made responsible for scam safety
Consumers will be able to seek reimbursement for scams under a new cross-industry code to enable the take-down of fraudsters, and verification of business accounts.
- Tom Burton
- Opinion
- The AFR View
China should play by free trade rules
It is disappointing that Beijing wants to play geopolitical hardball and put conditions on the withdrawal of its unjustified trade punishment of Australia.
- The AFR View
- Analysis
- China relations
Old-school diplomacy goes full bottle in search for China reset
Trade Minister Don Farrell is playing the long game in efforts to end damaging trade bans for Australian exports.
- Updated
- Tom McIlroy
Housing stand-off highlights need for majority government: PM
Anthony Albanese has warned against having to depend on the Greens in a minority government.
- Phillip Coorey
Legal threat made Deeming’s position ‘untenable’: Pesutto
Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto unpacks why Moira Deeming was expelled; the federal government will compensate 30,000 people whose communities were polluted by toxic firefighting foam used on defence bases.
- Updated
- Campbell Kwan
Priority visa processing for aged care workers
The first aged care labour agreement at Curtin Heritage in Perth is set to deliver 570 staff over five years.
- Tom McIlroy and Michael Read
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Letters: A voice that always gets heard
Corporates have a voice; Coalition’s strategy; WA’s share of GST; Greens and housing; PwC scandal; “god-doctors”; big business and jobs; payroll problems; the new Bard.
This Month
Palmer’s parliamentarian presses Wong on offshore litigation
Free trade clauses are of keen interest to Clive Palmer given he’s using them to bring one and threaten two more legal cases against the Commonwealth.
- Myriam Robin
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Leave no one behind by getting people into jobs
Labor should recognise that the complex and over-prescriptive award system is not the best mechanism for helping Australians do better in the job market.
- The AFR View
Minister ‘not afraid’ to receive advice from Voice
Government frontbencher Amanda Rishworth says she won’t be afraid to receive advice from a voter-endorsed Indigenous Voice to parliament.
- Andrew Brown
Tech CEO concerned about rising cost to hire skilled migrants
Visa application charges will increase between 6 per cent and 40 per cent from July 1.
- Tess Bennett
