Cafes are occupied by too many entitled loiterers,for whom $4.50 a coffee is way too cheap. The rest of us are subsidising their Zoom meetings.
The first real wage increases in three years are expected to hit bank accounts this year,easing inflationary pressures in households.
The business lobby argues this year’s minimum wage rise should be discounted because of the benefit the government’s tax changes will bring to people on low incomes.
Finding it hard to make ends meet,French farmers and their unions are urging the government to remember that without farmers there is no food on the table.
One quarter of weaker growth won’t worry the Reserve Bank,but consumers are weakening,and waking up to the start of a recession would be an unwelcome gift.
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has pleaded for patience with the new government as he faced a hostile reception from health workers during a speech on Labor’s 100th day in office.
Australia’s $3.4 billion apprenticeship scheme has led to poor training and high dropout rates,construction industry representatives say.
Sarah Cupitt is making sacrifices to live on her own,including living on toast and cut-price muesli bars while budgeting $30 a week for food.
Don’t believe anyone – not even a governor of the Reserve Bank – trying to tell you the increase in minimum award wages is anything other than good news for the lowest-paid quarter of wage earners.
Business groups warned the wage rise would add to inflation while unions said millions of people still faced a real pay cut.
No one is a winner from the most recent minimum wage increase. It just highlights the need for real economic changes.