Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has conceded the incredibly high threshold on a preventative detention regime for criminal former immigration detainees means it’s possible none will ever be locked up under it.
Katina Curtis
Employment Relations Minister Tony Burke is defending his exorbitant US travel expenses as being within ‘the rules’ of the Department as he faces questions over the $57,000 spending spree.
Kimberley Caines
A tranche of letters and emails reveal how a peak mining group broke ranks to negotiate a secret industrial relations deal with the Albanese Government.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has launched a scathing attack on DP World as he slapped down the stevedore giant’s call for him to intervene in the dispute disrupting four of Australia’s biggest ports.
Portraits of Elvis, Marilyn Monroe and several cans of soup are among 53 works by pop art master Andy Warhol on exclusive loan to the Wanneroo Regional Gallery from the National Gallery of Australia.
Big businesses and miners have lashed out at crossbenchers and the Government for a ‘sneaky’ deal that has led to the surprise passage of changes in industrial relations.
Major employer groups have banded together to call on the Federal Government to dump or delay its industrial relations changes, not satisfied with the concessions made so far.
Big business has accused the Government’s industrial relations agenda of being ‘anti-productivity’, saying the nation needs the system to be simplified not made even more complex.
Staff working for 65 childcare employers across the country — including the nation’s largest private provider — are seeking to strike a new joint agreement with a hefty increase in pay.
Patrick Gorman will take on an extra ministerial responsibility for the public service in a light-touch reshuffle aimed at easing the load of the Cabinet ministers who run the parliamentary chambers.
The Government has made key concessions to its industrial relations changes but is yet to win over the crossbench support it needs to get the bills through the Senate.
The Federal MP spoke after some of his Labor colleagues sparked national controversy with comments labelled “anti-Semitic”.
Joanna Delalande
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