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

Whether you are old or young, low or high income, working in construction or admin, a labourer or a manager, being in a union delivers you better pay.

As wages fail to keep up with inflation a record number of poeple are having to work more than one job to get by

Public services massively reduce inequality, but the Stage 3 tax cuts will make it much more difficult to fund them

The latest emissions projections reveal that emissions from SUVs will cancel out the reductions that occur due to electric vehicles

As approvals for public sector housing hit 2 year lows, the ambition for more public housing needs to be even greater than the government’s 20,000 in 5 years target.

This year’s election had the lowest turnout for a century. For the first time since compulsory voting was introduced for the 1925 federal election, turnout fell below 90%.

The latest wage rises from enterprise agreements show good improvement, but overall, workers continue to see their wages lag behind inflation

Business groups like the ACCI and AI Group say they want higher wages, but their recommendations for minimum wage rises show they rarely want real wages to rise

In defending the Stage 3 tax cuts in parliament, Angus Taylor inadvertently highlighted the real benefits for low-middle income earners comes from Stages 1 and 2.

The latest enterprise agreements figures show small signs of wage growth and once again the benefits of being in a union

In 2020-21 the biggest companies in Australia were able to reduce their taxable income to just 12% of their total income

Wages are rising within the RBA’s target band of inflation but profits are soaring 7 times that rate. And yet the RBA is more concerned with rising wages than profits

The Stage 3 tax cuts are not just unfair, they create a massive hole in the budget

Right now the gas industry is booming, but the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax is not.

People around Australia have been seeing the advertised prices of rents increasing, now the inflation figures are catching up.

The Government acknowledges the need to get wages growing again, but the budget reveals just how big the task is

Australia’s and Norway’s economies both have massively profitable resource industries, but Norwegians receive a much larger and fairer share

The Stage 3 tax cuts will only balance out the tax increase from the end of the low-middle income tax offset for those earning above $97,000

The end of the Low-Middle Income Tax Offset will deliver a tax increase of up to $1,500 for people earning under $90,000 – a 3% tax rise for someone on $50,000

Taxation data shows which occupations will get the biggest cuts – and how few people work in them

If you wanted to address bracket creep, the Stage 3 tax cuts would be the worst way to do it.