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

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 the drive to electrifty everything, Australia is positioned to be a world power

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