April
- Exclusive
- AI
Business is about to get a say on AI rules
The government plans to announce a revamped expert group to shape its thinking on the pivotal new technology around the time of the May budget.
- Nick Bonyhady
March
Unions’ 5pc wage claim will keep interest rates high: business
Employers say the ACTU’s bid for a 5 per cent increase is “an open letter to the RBA to keep interest rates higher for longer”, while economists warn it will have an inflationary effect.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- Supermarket wars
Rebel union splits with labour movement on Coles and Woolies break-up
The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union says a Greens-led plan to break up firms abusing market power should be made law.
- Tom McIlroy
ACTU calls for grocery prices panel, rejects divestiture push
ACTU secretary Sally McManus says the union movement does not believe so-called big stick powers to force retailers to sell off parts of their business should be the priority for government.
- Tom McIlroy
February
Multi-employer pay push a danger to industry: miners
The peak mining body is seeking to block a landmark union bid to use Labor’s multi-employer bargaining laws to secure a pay deal across five miners.
- David Marin-Guzman
January
Heat rises in wharf dispute
ACTU secretary Sally McManus accused Opposition Leader Peter Dutton of backing the “sheikhs and sultans of Dubai” over Australians, but the wharfies union backed down on its harshest strike action.
- Updated
- Nick Bonyhady
PM defends Red Sea moves; MUA backs down; Howard Marks’ market doubts
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
November 2023
Tony Burke’s favourite industry chief giving ACCI gala a miss
Is there anything worse than a formal sit-down gala in a room full of people shooting you daggers?
- Myriam Robin
September 2023
Australia’s 10 most powerful people in 2023
Government, the ultimate power in this country, is being shaped by very different political forces than those brought to bear at the 2022 election.
- Updated
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Aviation
Qantas hits High Court brick wall
The ruling against the airline is another hit to its reputation, and it can no longer rely on protection from the traditional cushion of national goodwill.
- Jennifer Hewett
Burke to entrench Fair Work powers over business
The Albanese government’s next wave of workplace changes will put the onus on business to prove they’re not caught by the tough wide-ranging laws.
- David Marin-Guzman
August 2023
Bosses slam ‘radical’ gig economy crackdown
Tony Burke has admitted the Albanese government’s next wave of workplace changes will increase prices for services such as UberEats.
- David Marin-Guzman and Phillip Coorey
Labor to consider unionists for RBA board
Labor will consider appointing worker representatives to the Reserve Bank board as part of a final swathe of changes pushed by unions at party conference.
- David Marin-Guzman
Qantas in firing line for price gouging inquiry
Former ACCC chief Alan Fels will lead the inquiry commission by the ACTU, which also wants the airline held to account over Australian jobs in return for the government’s protection.
- Ayesha de Kretser
July 2023
Casuals to get ‘the whip hand’ under Labor’s six-month conversion test
Business says Labor’s new rights for regular casuals are a threat to small business flexibility, but unions say the government is treading “a middle line”.
- Updated
- David Marin-Guzman
Business welcomes Bullock as a world-class RBA pick
Commonwealth Bank chief Matt Comyn and other corporate leaders say she is well suited to be Australia’s central bank chief.
- Tom McIlroy and Hannah Wootton
June 2023
- Opinion
- Interest rates
The wage, inflation and interest rates trade-off
Australians cannot expect their wages to go up to compensate for inflation, Philip Lowe has warned, as it will only prolong the interest rate pain.
- Jennifer Hewett
HR Nicholls Society resurrected to combat Labor’s workplace laws
Canberra’s shake-up of workplace laws has sparked the re-emergence of the long-dormant HR Nicholls Society, with a former Liberal MP, Louise Staley, at the helm.
- David Marin-Guzman
April 2023
Iain Ross better than a union rep on RBA board: ACTU
Amid low-level grumbling within conservative and business circles, former Fair Work president Iain Ross and company director Elana Rubin were added to the RBA board.
- Phillip Coorey
March 2023
PM mocks Clive Palmer’s $300b lawsuit
“(Clive) Palmer and (Christian) Porter. Name a more iconic duo, I dare you,” Anthony Albanese quips in mocking the lawsuit; Labor’s safeguard mechanism legislation passes the Senate 32 votes to 26. How the day unfolded.
- Updated
- Georgie Moore and Campbell Kwan
