Media Releases
Read current and past media statements from the ACTU.
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Recent Media Releases
Hundreds of thousands of workers get permanent jobs
February 26, 2025
Peter Dutton voted against these laws and has committed to reinstating this casual employment trap if re-elected.
Australian Unions slam Dutton’s threat to axe 36,000 public service jobs
February 25, 2025
Australian Unions say the cuts would result in 1 in 5 public sector jobs being lost around the country, impacting services from pensions and veterans’ payments, to the operation of regional weather stations.
ACTU welcomes $500 million investment in manufacturing jobs
February 21, 2025
The ACTU welcomes today’s announcement by the Albanese Government to invest $500 million in supporting Australian clean energy jobs and manufacturing capability, with a particular focus on manufacturing wind towers and other components using Australian steel.
The Coalition should join with the government in opposing cuts to penalty rates
February 21, 2025
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton should back the Government in opposing an application by Australia’s largest retailers to cut penalty rates for some of Australia’s lowest-paid workers.
Australian Unions welcome support and a future for thousands of jobs at Whyalla Steelworks
February 20, 2025
The saving of Whyalla jobs highlights the stark difference between the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton when it comes to job security and local manufacturing. When steel jobs were on the line, Anthony Albanese showed up while Peter Dutton did not. Actions speak louder than words, and people still remember that the last time Peter Dutton was in government, his party let our car manufacturing industry die.
Real wages have grown more in the last twelve months – than under the entire nine years of Coalition government
February 19, 2025
The ACTU warns this wages turnaround is at risk of being reversed if a Dutton Government is elected, as it has vowed to reverse the wage-boosting rights that have delivered these gains.
Relief from high interest rates needed now … not next time
February 18, 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia must start delivering on long-awaited interest rates relief for workers who have been hit hard financially by the past 13 interest rate rises.
Dutton opposes childcare cost of living relief for families
February 14, 2025
Australian Unions have blasted the Coalition for trying to defeat cost-of-living relief for families paying for childcare.
Abolishing representative boards would cost workers in retirement: ACTU
February 14, 2025
The ACTU has denounced calls to ban worker representatives from serving on superannuation boards, following the release of a new report from a Senate inquiry into Australia’s retirement system.
New analysis reveals weekly cost to Australians of scrapping the right to disconnect
February 13, 2025
Australian Unions are warning that scrapping the new right to disconnect laws risks adding more than 100 minutes of unpaid overtime every week for the average Australian worker.
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