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SBS Australia
3 days ago
- Business
- SBS Australia
Minimum wage rise will deliver first above-inflation increase in years
Minimum wage rise will deliver first above-inflation increase in years Published 3 June 2025, 8:22 am Millions of Australian workers will pocket an above-inflation wage increase within weeks. The Fair Work decision is intended to correct a decline in real wages among the lowest paid, but employers are questioning whether it will be sustainable.
ABC News
4 days ago
- Business
- ABC News
Australia's lowest paid workers to get an extra dollar an hour
Millions of Australian workers will get a 3.5 per cent pay rise from July 1, following the Fair Work Commission's annual review of the minimum wage and award agreements.
RNZ News
4 days ago
- Business
- RNZ News
Australia's lowest paid workers to get above-inflation wage increase
Australia correspondent Nick Grimm spoke to Lisa Owen about the nation's Fair Work commission ruling Australia's lowest paid workers will recieve an above inflation wage increase, as well as long-term national study that has found a third of Australian men have used some form of intimate partner violence in their lifetime. To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
The Age
30-05-2025
- Politics
- The Age
Keeping power in check: The Age as a watchdog
In their feedback and correspondence, subscribers to The Age constantly make clear to me their desire for our journalists to hold society's powerful people and institutions to account. There is nothing new or innovative about the watchdog function of publications such as ours, indeed it is something people expect. But if you will allow me a small boast, I have to say I think we're quite good at it. In recent weeks our reporting has revealed: * The Victorian government is seeking to save $2.4 billion by delaying funding increases promised under the Gonski reforms, embedding the status of the so-called 'Education State' as the nation's poorest funder of public schools. * An outlaw bikie gang has been linked to a spate of firebombings targeting construction businesses across the state, and building industry insiders are concerned that government and law enforcement are not doing enough to stop it. * A dispute in the Victorian Liberal Party following a faux pas about Gina Rinehart has spilled over into a Fair Work matter. * Victorians' lives could be saved by mandating that defibrillators be registered on a public database. * A state government payroll tax touted as a salve for our ailing mental health system is overdelivering financially, but the state hasn't yet met a commitment for 170 new mental health beds. Most of these stories seek to hold our elected officials accountable along with the people they appoint to public roles, but our watchdog role extends beyond government to power in places such as sporting codes, business, schools, hospitals, the courts, society and the media. Of course, watchdog journalism doesn't cover everything we do, but it's at the heart of our purpose.
The Age
29-05-2025
- Politics
- The Age
Victorian Liberals accused of sacking staffer in retaliation for bullying claims
She has now made a 36-page statement for a Fair Work application claiming she was set up to fail, excluded, given unachievable key performance indicators, denigrated, and was the target of a more than year-long campaign to 'get rid of Nadine'. Her application refers to discussions within a WhatsApp group, which is understood to have involved Smith and other staff. Jones claims she was stood down in retaliation for making bullying complaints against Smith and Davis, and for Davis' embarrassment over the Rinehart incident. She claims she was then sacked in retaliation for taking her case to WorkCover. The Liberal Party declined to comment on the allegations. The Age has seen the Fair Work application lodged against the party last week, Jones' witness statement, and the stand-down and termination letters issued to Jones. The same documents have been provided to all members of the party's 19-person administrative committee, which includes Opposition Leader Brad Battin. Loading The administrative committee has separately received a request to intervene in the damaging dispute between Deeming and Pesutto by authorising the use of party funds to pay for or loan the money for legal costs owed by the former leader to his party room colleague. Deeming last year successfully sued Pesutto for defamation before the Federal Court after he falsely implied she associated with neo-Nazis. Battin replaced Pesutto as party leader weeks after the judgment. The court this month ordered Pesutto to pay Deeming $2.3 million in legal costs by this Friday. Deeming's lawyers have flagged their intention to pursue third parties for costs — including former premiers Jeff Kennett, Denis Napthine and Ted Baillieu and serving MPs Georgie Crozier and David Southwick — if Pesutto is left bankrupt. This masthead has spoken to a dozen party members and staff who requested anonymity for this story. Four Liberal sources said standing Jones down from the fundraising body on the eve of the federal election hampered campaign fundraising efforts. The complaint against Smith and Davis emerged at a time when the party organisation and its office holders were under intense pressure to account for the party's disastrous result in last month's federal election, at which it lost two more suburban seats to Labor. Both men were contacted for comment. The latest federal election drubbing follows successive Liberal wipe-outs at the previous two state elections. Suggestions by supporters of Smith and Davis that Jones' complaint was part of a bigger factional play for control of the party have been rejected by four sources close to Jones. Battin has privately canvassed a clear-out of senior positions at party headquarters to end infighting and become electorally competitive in Victoria, several sources have confirmed to The Age, although Battin has publicly disputed this. Jones, in her Fair Work application, claims she had almost quadrupled Enterprise Victoria's membership in the two years in her role, and that annual revenue had increased about fivefold. She claims she was the target of a misinformation campaign about her performance to legitimise standing her down. She is seeking compensation for lost income, unpaid commission and damages. The Fair Work claim provides further details about a March 26 fundraising dinner at Zagame's House on Carlton's Lygon Street that Jones secured Rinehart for, in what was seen as a coup for the party. Davis rebranded the Enterprise Victoria event as a Victorian Liberal Party function and insisted on hosting. Jones offered him speaking notes, but according to Jones' claim, Davis replied: 'This is not my first rodeo.' He then introduced Rinehart as a sponsor of Netball Australia, which Jones in her application describes as a 'very public and embarrassing gaffe'. Hancock Prospecting withdrew its $15 million four-year sponsorship with Netball Australia in 2022 amid a flurry of headlines after Diamonds players said they did not want to wear uniforms featuring the mining company's logo. Jones was stood down the next day. She claims the misconduct allegations against her had never previously been raised and that the action was retaliatory. The party, in its stand-down letter to Jones, accused her of improperly giving complimentary or discounted tickets to an earlier $2000-a-head lunch with Western Australian senator Michaelia Cash without approval, sharing confidential and financial information, and using her private email and device to transmit and store sensitive party information. Jones disputes the characterisation of the claims and argues they were contrived.
