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Thousands of workers are unable to work each day due to long COVID, making Australia's labour shortage problem worse.

Tentatively hopeful news.

Alongside much else that is being revised, reimagined or recast by the Albanese government, Australia is to have a new cultural policy. Consultation has involved town hall meetings and a call for submissions. The arts minister, Tony Burke, has established five review panels to consider feedback.

The government vowed to shut the Australian Building and Construction Commission. But the agency is still launching court cases against its key opponent, construction union the CFMMEU.

One month into the rollout of the new $7 billion Workforce Australia system, jobseekers and students are reporting mass confusion and inconsistencies.

‘We particularly want to make sure the bargaining system works for small business and for women’, says Burke

The workplace relations minister says he wants to see an end to employers getting rid of enterprise agreements.

Tech solutions allow workers to find clients directly, but when it comes to guaranteeing employee benefits not all are equal