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Australian unions are pushing for a "survival increase" in the minimum wage as inflation and the cost of living crush lowest-paid workers.

Minimum hourly rate would rise to $22.88 – or $45,337 a year – if the Fair Work Commission grants the increase

A trial for a four-day work week at full pay for Australian workers has been spruiked as a "great idea" by the union movement.

Australia's union movement has criticised plans to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, declaring support for a "nuclear free defence policy".

Australian Council of Trade Unions chief, Michele O’Neil, will argue for retraining, redeployment and compensation programs

Many engineered-stone benchtops could soon be taken off the market as governments push ahead with plans to review a ban.

Everyday Australian’s are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living with soaring inflation hurting households’ hip pockets.

Qantas the latest company to announce record profits, causing anger among some travellers and a Labor senator

The election of the Hawke Labor government on March 5 1983 began an era of once-in-a-century economic reforms that opened the Australian economy to the world. It floated the dollar, eliminated controls on international capital flows, and dismantled the high tariffs that protected local manufacturers from imports. It refocused Australia’s…