Labor Leader Anthony Albanese:
“The cost of living is increasing, but pay isn’t keeping up.”
“A Labor government will focus on lifting pay and profits and creating even more jobs by making our economy more productive.”
That sounds like great news:
Australians trapped in Lebanon say they have been left “stranded” after being told Beirut airport was closed for departures and flights were being cancelled.
The federal government has issued urgent calls to evacuate the country amid heightened tensions of a possible war with Israel.
But several Australians … Read the rest
62% of Australian voters have said that Australian migration intake is too high, according to a survey released by the Sydney Morning Herald, on Monday 11 December 2023.
Anthony Albanese, the Australian Prime Minister, stated that Australia’s migration numbers need to be reduced to a “sustainable … Read the rest
In June 2021, Labor’s Anthony Albanese said that Australia’s real wages had ‘flatlined’ for eight years, under the Lib/Nat government.
Figures showed that over the eight years to December 2020, real wages, (wages adjusted for the impact of inflation), grew by 3.1%, … Read the rest
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been censured by some in the Australian parliament for giving himself secret powers while in office.
These secret powers gave the Prime Minister the ability to make decisions in the Government, along with the Minister of that department.… Read the rest
Andrew McKellar, the head of the
Australian Chamber of Commerce, described the July 2022, 5.2% increase ($40 per week) to the Minimum Wage as a “very significant risk” and predicted it would add $7.9 billion in costs to Australian businesses.… Read the rest
Australia became an independent nation on 1 January 1901 when the British Parliament passed legislation allowing the six Australian colonies to govern in their own right as part of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Australia operates under a federal system where powers are divided between … Read the rest
Anthony Albanese is blaming Scott Morrison for “plummeting” wages following the latest release of the wage price index, showing an annual wage increase of 2.4% to the March quarter.
The current rate of inflation is 5.1%.
Other countries with similar issues are blaming issues arising from the … Read the rest
Australians are reading about increasing food prices, as are many other countries around the world.
Almost everybody has seen the prices of everyday goods shooting up, and Labor is keen to pin the blame on the Coalition.
After last week’s higher-than expected … Read the rest
Anthony Albanese, on 11 April 2022, said he thought that the Australian unemployment rate was 5.4 per cent.
Scott Morrison, on the same day, said it was 4%, the lowest rate over 50 years.
The latest actual figures show that the Prime Minister, Scott … Read the rest
