The indexation of HECS/HELP debt this year will leave people earning less than $62,000 with a bigger debt even after their repayments.

Consultancy companies like to boast they are committed to action on climate change, but they much prefer overstating the benefits of coal mines

While record company profits are dismissed as “short-term” workers continue to suffer ongoing falls in real wages

The Reserve Bank’s own research showed that raising rates after February would only increase unemployment, not lower inflation

Wages growth under enterprise agreements show that workers continue to be the ones doing it toughest during the period of high inflation

Profits in the mining sector are surging, but output is not – and the increased prices come at a cost to the rest of the economy

Less than 20% of consultants’ reports to government are published

By the middle of 2025 the average wage will be worth less in real terms than it was a decade and half earlier

Stronger wage growth in the private sector is good news, but public sector workers continue to be left behind

As the Reserve Bank continues to raise rates, it continues to misread the nature of inflation that is being driven largely by profits.

Wages under enterprise agreements are slowly rising, but remain well below inflation

Losing the low-middle income tax offset and getting the Stage 3 tax cuts will leave most workers worse off

The latest forecast for gas and coal exports show no sign of any shift away from fossil fuels

The latest monthly consumer price index figures show that inflation has peaked and is on the way down. 

The market’s early view of the safeguard mechanism deal is bad for gas and coal mining companies

NSW has one poker machine for every 88 people – more than 10 times the amount in Western Australia

New fossil fuel projects would create 24 times more pollution than what the safeguard mechanism would (theoretically) remove

Once again the gas industry is crying wolf and telling us we need more gas to prevent shortages. But if you read beyond the scare quotes today’s report from Australia’s Energy Market Operator report shows we already have more than enough gas.

The latest data from the Fair Work Commissions suggest wages continue to be deflationary as profits drive inflation

Yes the mining sector has booming profits, but they are not the only businesses whose profits are growing faster than the wages of their workers

The rising cost of living and falling real wages has seen the number of people working more than one job surge in the past 2 years.

With public sector wages dragging down wage growth and private sector wages rising slower than expected, it is clear Reserve Bank needs to pause its run of rate rises

The Reserve Bank now predicts real wages will being to recover from the start of next year, but will take many years to recover

The 300 basis point increase in the cash rates has delivered one of the biggest falls in lending ever seen. The risk of a recession to follow cannot be ignored

The latest enterprise agreements lodged with the Fair Work Commission show that wages continue to lag well below inflation

As price growth begin to slow around the world, the RBA needs to stop slamming on the brakes

The average annual wage growth in enterprise agreements not only remains well below inflation, it shows little sigh of increasing.

The past 6 months has seen a record rise in the amount of interest households are having to pay