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September

Bill Shorten announces his retirement from politics alongside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday.

Labor firms on Queenslander to replace Victorian Bill Shorten

Bill Shorten’s seat of Maribyrnong will go to Victorian Labor’s left faction, while retiring MP Brendan O’Connor’s seat of Gorton is subject to a battle between two right-faction unions.

  • Ronald Mizen

July

Hard road: Large Queensland renewables projects are baking in higher costs that benefit the CFMEU but no-one else, industry says.

Labor rules giving building unions more powers on projects

The construction industry in Queensland is worried about state policies that benefit the CFMEU, but which will saddle consumers with great costs.

  • Michael Bleby, James Hall and David Marin-Guzman

May

Aged care unions rejected government concerns a large pay rise for the sector could fuel labour shortages elsewhere.

Aged care providers back delaying pay rises

Aged care employers have supported the government’s proposal to phase-in aged care pay rises, clashing with unions who are demanding the full rise by July 1.

  • David Marin-Guzman

March

Just 20 per cent of Qantas’ pilot intake at its academy in recent years were women despite the airline having a formal target of 40 per cent by 2028.

Judge lashes Qantas union for delaying tactics

A Federal Court judge has accused the Transport Workers Union of “sitting on its backside” over a claim it should be compensated for lost membership dues.

  • David Marin-Guzman
Ballarat gold mine victim Kurt Hourigan.

Ballarat mine criminal lawsuit looms

The former owner of the Ballarat gold mine where one worker was killed and another injured in a collapse 500 metres underground was being pursued for unpaid rehabilitation bonds.

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  • Peter Ker and Gus McCubbing
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September 2023

Chris Bowen says nuclear power is not economically feasible. Peter Dutton disagrees.

Bowen’s attack a sign nuclear support is growing: Libs

Peter Dutton says nuclear power should only form part of the energy mix and that Chris Bowen was becoming “unhinged”.

  • Phillip Coorey

July 2023

Rigforce supplies labour to vessels contracted with Inpex and its LNG plant in northern Australia.

Oil and gas rig workers get 8.6pc pay rise

Workers at a key labour hire company in the offshore resources sector have secured a wage increase of almost 16 per cent over two years as bargaining heats up.

  • David Marin-Guzman

May 2023

AWU national secretary Daniel Walton said it had been “a singular honour” to lead the union.

AWU leader and Labor shining light to pursue private sector career

Treasurer Jim Chalmers praised AWU secretary Daniel Walton as “one of the really enlightened leaders in our broader Australian community” and said he wished he had not quit.

  • David Marin-Guzman

February 2023

By approving an expansion of Santos’ Surat Basin project  Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has done the right thing by the economy and the climate.

Gas is the perfect partner for the world’s transition to renewable energy

The Greens’ extremist dogma is that every new gas project makes the climate crisis worse. They’re wrong. The real world is more complex than a slogan on a pair of dangly earrings.

  • Daniel Walton
AWU national secretary Dan Walton has unloaded on the Greens for threatening to sink Labor’s safeguard mechanism.

‘Vacuous moral purity’: union boss slams Greens’ approach to gas

Anti-gas sentiment will hinder the net zero pledge and cost jobs, Australian Workers’ Union boss Dan Walton says.

  • Jacob Greber

November 2022

The Albanese cabinet will discuss gas price solutions next week.

Don’t mistake the delay for lack of resolve, PM warns gas companies

Anthony Albanese has warned gas companies that the length of time being taken to decide on price control should not be mistaken for a lack of resolve.

  • Phillip Coorey

October 2022

Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic: “It’s team Australia or team greed.”

Labor, unions rupture over gas prices

Pressure is building within the labour movement for an intervention to force down fuel bills.

  • Phillip Coorey

August 2022

Minister for Employment Tony Burke says there must be measures to stop migrant workers being exploited.

Government leaning towards skills for migration pact

The government is not ruling out a union proposal requiring employers to fund the training of a domestic worker for every migrant they employ.

  • Phillip Coorey
State and federal energy ministers met in Canberra on Friday and agreed on reforms to drive the clean energy transition.

Australia’s energy transition moving in right direction

Our climate and energy conflicts are now about the journey not the low-carbon destination. But it’s unwise to be dogmatic about this or that technological pathway.

  • The AFR View
Andrew Forrest has espoused a renewables-only hydrogen strategy.

‘We are not unique’: global race on hydrogen exports

Countries in South America are among those with rich renewables resources that could steal a march on Australia in the race to establish a hydrogen export industry.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith
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AWU secretary Daniel Walton says there must be safeguards when importing skilled migrants

AWU wants compulsory union membership, higher fees for migrants

Employers will be required to train an Australian worker for every skilled migrant they take on, and the migrant will be made a default member of the relevant union to guard against exploitation.

  • Phillip Coorey

June 2022

Guy railed against what he described as the one-man Dan show.

Victorian Premier Andrews blamed for ‘demonising’ gas

AWU national secretary Daniel Walton blames Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews for demonising the gas sector, which he says is critical to ensure the transition to renewables.

  • Patrick Durkin

December 2021

Protesters demonstrate against the Scarborough project outside Woodside HQ  in Perth

Union warns Woodside LNG protesters ‘threatening jobs’

The Australian Workers Union has called on protesters against the $16 billion Scarborough gas project to back off, arguing the project is a key part of the net zero emissions future.

  • David Marin-Guzman

November 2021

United Steelworkers president Tom Conway.

US union boss urges Australian workers to strike while iron is hot

The president of one of America’s most powerful unions says more strike action and wages rises are on the way.

  • Matthew Cranston

September 2021

Naval Group’s landlord isn’t worried that the $90 billion submarines deal is being scrapped. An artist’s impression of the Royal Australian Navy’s future submarines under the now-defunct French deal.

Owner of Naval Group’s headquarters backs submarines switch

The boss of a $3 billion property group that owns the building where Naval Group is based is in favour of the new submarine deal.

  • Simon Evans

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