Media Releases 2025
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Recent Media Releases
‘New era for workers’: Unions welcome clean aluminium investment
January 20, 2025
The ACTU welcomes the Albanese government’s commitment of $2 billion to build a green aluminium industry in Australia – an industry that will support thousands of jobs and drive deep reductions in climate pollution.
Softening jobs market yet another reason for the RBA to cut rates – ACTU
January 16, 2025
Today’s jobs data ramps up the urgent need for a rates cut when the Reserve…
Australians risk losing hundreds of thousands in retirement income under Coalition super proposal
January 16, 2025
The ACTU warns that the current push by Coalition members to cut superannuation will cost the average 30-year-old worker around $165,000 in retirement income.
RBA should stop sitting on its hands and cut rates: ACTU
January 8, 2025
Today’s inflation figures offer further signs of a clear pathway for the Reserve Bank of Australia to start cutting official interest rates at its first policy meeting in February.
New year, new powers to tackle wage theft affecting one million workers
January 1, 2025
Employers can face jail time or fines of up to $7.85 million under new laws criminalising wage theft that come into operation today, after a long union campaign.
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