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Gas lobby plans ‘national public awareness campaign’ – as it happened

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Northern Territory arts minister calls for national probe into 'damaging' claims of white interference in Indigenous art

The Northern Territory arts minister is calling for a national investigation into allegations of interference by white assistants that are creating "reputational damage" to the Indigenous art industry.

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Treasurer delivers budget speech – as it happened

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Labor to scrap Coalition’s ‘punitive’ ParentsNext scheme from next year

Albanese government says mutual obligations under the widely criticised program will end immediately

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Controversial ParentsNext program to be scrapped next year

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Gig economy shifts as Uber takes on supermarket delivery, government pushes for minimum employment standards

Deals between Coles, Uber and a key transport union establishing minimum conditions — ahead of the threat of legislation — could mean better days for gig economy workers.

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Super for gig workers would deliver big retirement gains

Extending super to gig workers currently not covered by it would boost their retirement balances by an average of $29,000.

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Push for a ban on deadly silica intensifies

Unions are pushing for a ban on kitchen benchtops with high silica levels that are linked to lung disease, saying there are alternative products available.

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Unions call for silica ban to set a safety benchmark

Unions are pushing for a ban on kitchen benchtops with high silica levels that are linked to lung disease, saying there are alternative products available.

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Screen Australia study finds more First Nations characters but one in four TV shows have all Anglo-Celtic casts

There is a lot of work still to be done to reflect Australia’s population on television screens, diversity report says

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‘We need to break down their power’: why Australian music is facing an ‘existential threat’

It’s becoming harder for local artists to find an audience, raising urgent questions for the industry – and for the culture

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Deliberate non-payment of super should be treated ‘like wage theft’, Labor says

Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones says targets will be set for Australian Tax Office to recover estimated $5bn in unpaid superannuation

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National Gallery of Australia among institutions to receive $535m to avert funding crisis

National gallery, library and museum among organisations to be thrown financial lifeline after years of underfunding

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There’s nothing natural about Australia’s ‘cost-of-living crisis’. It’s time we had systemic change

The pain households are feeling right now is the direct consequence of decisions that governments have made over many years

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Trove: National Library of Australia’s digital archives thrown $33m lifeline by federal government

Announcement of funding for Australia’s public digital archives follows a groundswell of support for cultural institutions after decades of budget cuts

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Trove secures funding as federal government comes to rescue of National Library of Australia's digitised archive

Funding for the country's largest digitised archive has been announced, after months of the National Library of Australia calling for more financial support.

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Labor tells wages umpire low-paid must not go backwards

The Albanese government will advocate for a wage lift that stops low-paid workers going backwards as business groups worry about higher wage bills.

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Australian employers say ‘excessive’ minimum wage rise in line with inflation could lead to recession

Claim comes as Albanese government argues Fair Work Commission should ‘ensure the real wages of Australia’s low-paid workers do not go backwards’

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Government appoints five union figures

The Albanese government has announced five union-linked appointments to the industrial umpire in a bid to "restore balance". The former Coalition

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Government appoints union figures to industrial umpire

Union-linked appointments have been made to the Fair Work Commission in a bid to restore balance, the Albanese government says.

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Australian War Memorial funding dwarfed that of other cultural institutions in Coalition’s final years

Memorial given more than $600m in last two years of Morrison government, as the nation’s peak collecting museums languished

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‘Simply about survival’: ACTU calls for 7% pay rise for lowest-paid workers to keep pace with inflation

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

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Burke hints at support for another big lift in minimum wage

The government has given its strongest indication yet of support for the minimum wages, as inflation continues to bite.

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Australia's cultural institutions are especially vulnerable to efficiency dividends: looking back at 35 years of cuts

In January the Albanese government launched a new arts policy, Revive. Among its measures was a commitment to exempt Australia’s seven national performing arts training organisations from the efficiency dividend.

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Temporary migrants to be granted more workplace rights

Greater labour protection will be afforded to temporary migrant workers in legislation to be introduced by the federal government.

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