Amanda Rishworth
Labor pushes real-wage increase for millions of workers despite inflation fears
The federal government has requested the increase in its annual submission to the Fair Work Commission, but does not go as far as the country’s biggest union.
- Nick Newling
Latest
Tax on truth: Coalition, Greens team up to block Labor’s controversial laws
Coalition and Greens senators are set to reject the bill once it reaches the Senate.
- Nick Newling
- Updated
- Building Bad
Wilson says Albanese ‘tainted’ by CFMEU connection, demands official grilling
A top CFMEU official remains a member of Labor’s top decision-making body where he sits alongside elected MPs and the prime minister.
- Paul Sakkal and Brittany Busch
- Editorial
- Building Bad
Albanese’s answer to the CFMEU rot looks short of the mark
The federal government insists the troubled union’s administration is doing its job well, but the recent evidence suggests otherwise.
- The Herald's View
- Updated
- Building Bad
‘Have a great life’: Gatto’s message to his building contacts after secret CFMEU meeting revealed
The Coalition’s industrial spokesman Tim Wilson said public trust in the turnaround effort had collapsed after the union’s “golden boy” facilitated a meeting with an underworld figure.
- Nick Newling and Hannah Hammoud
A false birth certificate and a DNA test: Kathy’s fight to have her real identity recognised
On top of the trauma of discovering she is adopted, Kathy Hodgson is battling bureaucracy to overturn an official lie.
- Claire Moodie
Ministers demand answers over Western Sydney Airport violence, intimidation claims
Infrastructure Minister Catherine King has written to the airport’s corporation after allegations of criminality from a key contractor.
- Nick Newling, Paul Sakkal, Alexandra Smith and David Swan
Echoes of robo-debt: Lawyer warns Labor after hundreds illegally denied payments
Hundreds of people have had income support payments unlawfully terminated by an automated system – described as eerily similar to the robo-debt scandal by one lawyer.
- Olivia Ireland
Labor staffers could help change the nation. But there’s a reason they’re leaving
In the weeks since securing an election triumph, dozens of senior political staff with decades of experience have quit the Albanese government.
- Kishor Napier-Raman and Nick Newling
- Exclusive
- Disability
Ballooning NDIS ‘coming under control’, but key reforms in flux
The government is not trying to tighten NDIS eligibility, but says its clean-up of the huge disability program is yielding results.
- Paul Sakkal