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For some time, federal politicians have argued that wages will grow when unemployment is lower. But a new report finds the evidence does not support that and the best way for politicians to get workers pay rises is to change the industrial relations system.

"I don't know a woman around here who hasn't skipped a meal to make sure their children get fed"

Opposition backs OECD approach and says Australians pay more while ‘losing out on funds’ as multinationals avoid taxation

It is "a somewhat disappointing showing for the world's fifth largest economy"

One of the first things Labor’s Bob Hawke did on being swept to office in March 1983 was to lift the unemployment benefit in April, seven weeks later, without even waiting for his first budget.

Our major political parties – and the media – seem to have forgotten we’re heading for a cliff when it comes to temperature rises

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should terrify policymakers and ordinary people around the world. The IPCC warns that some disastrous climate outcomes are now likely to occur not in the distant future, but within the next 15 years, or even the next decade.

Experts have called the findings 'shocking' and 'devastating'

Exclusive: average life expectancy in most deprived areas is 78.7 years, worse than the average of any OECD nation except Mexico