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May 15, 2025
The participation rate of women in the Australian workforce has once again reached record highs of 63.4 per cent, according to today’s ABS Labour Force statistics.
May 14, 2025
Wages rose 3.4 per cent over the year to March, driven by strong wage increases for workers paid under collective agreements. This is the clearest sign yet that working people’s incomes are finally being restored after years of going backwards.
May 4, 2025
The ACTU welcomes the re-election of the Albanese Labor Government, and we look forward to working with them to ensure working people continue to see real wage growth, increased job security, and safe and fairer workplaces.
May 2, 2025
The Coalition’s long-awaited election costings reveal a $1.2 billion cut to programs aimed at Australia’s working women.
April 30, 2025
Working Australians are enjoying continued real growth in their pay packets while inflation is back down.
April 28, 2025
Australian Unions warn comments by a Tasmanian Liberal candidate reveal the full extent of a Dutton-led Government’s broad ambition to cut minimum wage rates for Australian workers.
April 28, 2025
The number of workplace fatalities last year was 168, slightly lower than the five-year average of 191 workers who have been killed each year at work nationwide.
April 24, 2025
The polling, by Demos AU commissioned by the ACTU, found that 66 per cent of men aged 18 to 24 agree that “Anthony Albanese is acting in the best interests of working men.”
April 23, 2025
The Coalition’s policy released overnight would remove guaranteed access to 3 days a week of subsidised childcare for families, in another clear sign that Peter Dutton does not understand how modern families navigate caring for children and elderly parents, the jobs market, flexible work and taking on new skills and opportunities.
April 22, 2025
The analysis is released on the first day of early voting for the upcoming federal election, along with Demos polling showing that stopping wage theft is important or extremely important as an issue in the upcoming federal election for 81 per cent of undecided voters aged 18-24.
