Australia’s gender pay gap is the lowest it's ever been – at 12 per cent.
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As Workplace Relations Minister I believe in this fundamental principle: workers should never have to choose between their safety and their pay.
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On the 14th of October this year Australians will have the opportunity to say Yes to recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Constitution.
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We need to do things differently – and that’s what this referendum is about. Recognising First Nations people in the Constitution and listening to them.
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It was way back in 2013 that I first sounded the alarm about the impact TV streaming might have on Australian content.
The consequences of the Scott Morrison’s COVID failures are being felt particularly hard in my part of Sydney right now.
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This week marks one year since live performance was shut down by government decree.
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If there’s one thing the pandemic affirmed, it is that Australians want and need Australian stories to reaffirm their culture and their place in the world, including on our screens.
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When I started in federal politics seventeen years ago news organisations covered both chambers of parliament around the clock: independent eyes watching every minute of proceedings. Not anymore. Nowadays much of what happens in parliament goes unwatched and unreported by the press gallery.
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The last time Australia faced a crisis, our arts community helped bring the nation together in support of people doing it tough.
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Some bosses deliberately underpay their workers. Some do it by mistake. But either way, bosses who rip off their workers are not victims. George Calombaris is not a victim.
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The Liberals want you to believe that John Setka is somehow typical of the modern union movement. That it’s still dominated by big, blue-collar bovver boys who want to make trouble. That’s nonsense. The average union member today is a woman in her 40s who works in aged care.
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Tomorrow there will be a vote in the Senate about the Murray-Darling Basin plan. When Labor put the Plan in place in 2012 we resolved over a century of conflict.
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The overwhelming finding of that National Inquiry into Racist Violence was this: many victims considered the sub-physical forms of racial violence -- the insults, intimidation, harassment and aggression -- had a more severe impact than actual cases of physical assault. The violence of words could be as debilitating as physical violence.
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