Media Releases

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T: 03 9664 7315 (24 hours)
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Recent Media Releases

Women’s workforce participation at record levels

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.

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Real wages up again – driven by bargaining

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.

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Australians couldn’t risk Dutton

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.

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Coalition costings – cost women

May 2, 2025

The Coalition’s long-awaited election costings reveal a $1.2 billion cut to programs aimed at Australia’s working women.

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CPI result shows continued real wages growth, and clears the way for a second interest rate cut

April 30, 2025

Working Australians are enjoying continued real growth in their pay packets while inflation is back down.

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Tassie Liberal candidate says older Australians are ‘happy’ to work for $10 an hour – while disclosing the Coalition’s plan to cut wages   

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.

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Workplace fatalities claim 32 lives nationwide this year

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.

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Young men back Albo as champion of workers, new poll reveals

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.”

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Dutton’s cuts to childcare a bitter pill for women and families

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.

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One in five young workers victims of wage theft as election looms

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.

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