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Federal election 2025: Unions to pressure Labor for increase in workers' rights
Unions will press the Albanese government for policy action to lift workers’ living standards as they identified Peter Dutton’s unpopularity with voters and disastrous working from home policy backflip as key factors in the Coalition’s defeat.
Welcome to The Weekend Australian's live politics blog, Politics Now. Anthony Albanese has claimed a historic second election victory in a landslide result that has left the Coalition devastated after Peter Dutton and senior shadow cabinet members were turfed from parliament in a Liberal Party bloodbath.
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Union priority: a lift in worker living standards
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