New spending measures to help struggling households have been shunned in favour of fixing the budget bottom line as Treasurer Jim Chalmers looks to bank soaring government tax collections instead. The mid-year budget update, to be released on Wednesday, is expected to show 92 per cent of revenue upgrades overContinue Reading
The government has refused to commit to pay superannuation on paid parental leave despite a new 10-year plan from the government’s own gender pay equity task force recommending the measure. Released on Monday, the final report from the Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce (WEET) recommended systemic changes designed to close theContinue Reading
Parents will soon be able to share in up to six months of paid parental leave, but the government has knocked back calls from its own taskforce to pay superannuation on the support measure. Under the proposed laws being introduced to parliament on Thursday, families will have shared access toContinue Reading
Parents will soon be able to share in up to six months of paid parental leave, but the government has knocked back calls from its own taskforce to pay superannuation on the support measure. Under the proposed laws being introduced to parliament on Thursday, families will have shared access toContinue Reading
Services Australia staff across the country will take part in a one-hour work stoppage on Tuesday after rebuffing the agency’s proposed changes to workplace conditions and the Albanese government’s 10.5 per cent pay offer. The escalation comes as negotiations between management and the Commonwealth Public Sector Union (CPSU) become increasinglyContinue Reading
With the mounting pressure of the cost of living crisis, many Australians have noticed their sex lives have been impacted. New research from Afterpay has found increasing financial pressures have led 16 per cent of Aussies to have a lower desire for physical intimacy, while one in seven report higherContinue Reading
Malcolm Turnbull has joined the chorus of former prime ministers criticising the government’s $368bn AUKUS deal, saying there are more risks than there are rewards. A day after Paul Keating’s extraordinary spray in which he labelled the deal the “worst in all history”, Mr Turnbull was more measured in hisContinue Reading
International Women’s Day has been and gone for another year – and like clockwork, out came the trolls mansplaining why actually, women have it pretty easy, thank you very much. As inescapable as death and taxes are the same tired, disproved arguments that are trotted out each and every year:Continue Reading