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Recent Media Releases

Young men back Albo as champion of workers, new poll reveals

April 24, 2025

The polling, by Demos AU commissioned by the ACTU, found that 66 per cent of men aged 18 to 24 agree that “Anthony Albanese is acting in the best interests of working men.”

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Dutton’s cuts to childcare a bitter pill for women and families

April 23, 2025

The Coalition’s policy released overnight would remove guaranteed access to 3 days a week of subsidised childcare for families, in another clear sign that Peter Dutton does not understand how modern families navigate caring for children and elderly parents, the jobs market, flexible work and taking on new skills and opportunities.

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One in five young workers victims of wage theft as election looms

April 22, 2025

The analysis is released on the first day of early voting for the upcoming federal election, along with Demos polling showing that stopping wage theft is important or extremely important as an issue in the upcoming federal election for 81 per cent of undecided voters aged 18-24.

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Penalty rates an important election decider: poll

April 19, 2025

70 percent of Australians say that protecting penalty rates is important when it comes to deciding how they will vote.

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Australian Unions welcome landmark decision on women’s pay

April 16, 2025

Using improvements to workplace laws introduced by the Albanese Government in 2022, the Fair Work Commission’s ruling is set to lift minimum pay rates for a wide range of occupations.

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Women in outer suburbs and regions hardest hit from Dutton’s plan to axe Free TAFE

April 15, 2025

Australian Unions today slammed Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton’s plan to scrap the Federal Government’s Free TAFE program.

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Clerical workers could lose $7,000 in penalty rates as employer attack spreads

April 14, 2025

Australian Unions are today warning that employer attacks on penalty rates have spread beyond the retail sector to target workers in administration, banking and finance.

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Bosses argue low-paid workers don’t deserve $3.94 a day to spend on lunch

April 10, 2025

The bosses push to deny low-paid workers enough money to buy their own lunch, which contrasts with Coalition Leader Peter Dutton’s policy to spend at least $1.6 billion in taxpayers’ money each year on free lunches for bosses.  

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Bosses argue that Western Sydney workers shouldn’t earn enough to live there.

April 10, 2025

Award-reliant workers should not earn enough to live in Sydney, be able to afford lunch at work, or save for overseas holidays, according to a major employer group, in its submission to the Annual Wage Review.  

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Workers would be $8,700 worse off today if Peter Dutton had his way

April 10, 2025

Australian Unions are releasing a new report today outlining how workers would be $8,700 worse off by now, if Peter Dutton had achieved his goal of blocking the Government’s major reforms to get wages moving.

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