Media Releases

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All ACTU media enquiries should be directed to ACTU Media team:

T: 03 9664 7315 (24 hours)
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Recent Media Releases

Real wages have grown more in the last twelve months – than under the entire nine years of Coalition government

February 19, 2025

The ACTU warns this wages turnaround is at risk of being reversed if a Dutton Government is elected, as it has vowed to reverse the wage-boosting rights that have delivered these gains.

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Relief from high interest rates needed now … not next time  

February 18, 2025

The Reserve Bank of Australia must start delivering on long-awaited interest rates relief for workers who have been hit hard financially by the past 13 interest rate rises.

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Dutton opposes childcare cost of living relief for families

February 14, 2025

Australian Unions have blasted the Coalition for trying to defeat cost-of-living relief for families paying for childcare.

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Abolishing representative boards would cost workers in retirement: ACTU

February 14, 2025

The ACTU has denounced calls to ban worker representatives from serving on superannuation boards, following the release of a new report from a Senate inquiry into Australia’s retirement system.

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New analysis reveals weekly cost to Australians of scrapping the right to disconnect

February 13, 2025

Australian Unions are warning that scrapping the new right to disconnect laws risks adding more than 100 minutes of unpaid overtime every week for the average Australian worker.

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Dutton wants working Australians to wait longer for rates relief  

February 12, 2025

Coalition Leader Peter Dutton’s assertion that the Reserve Bank of Australia is at risk of cutting rates “too early” shows that he has no idea about the cost-of-living pressures that working families face.

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New report on AI recommends stronger rights and protections for workers

February 12, 2025

The ACTU welcomes recommendations to strengthen workplace rights outlined in the newly released report by the House Standing Committee’s Inquiry into the Digital Transformation of Workplaces.

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Australian Unions give Maccas franchises a serve

February 11, 2025

Australian Unions are standing up to the McDonald’s fast-food chain in a test case over workers’ bargaining rights.

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Future Made in Australia investment to deliver hundreds of thousands of new jobs by 2040

February 10, 2025

With the passage of the Albanese Government’s Future Made in Australia program, industries like green aluminium, solar and battery manufacturing, green hydrogen, and critical minerals could create more than 400,000 new jobs by 2040.

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CEOs go after penalty rates

February 7, 2025

Big business claims penalty rates and workplace rights in the era of Trump need to go.

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