Interview with Dales Whyte, 4RO Breakfast

SUBJECTS: The Albanese Government’s record $2 billion investment in the Australian-made aluminium industry; Nuclear; Wage theft.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 23 January 2025

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

More than 110,000 Australians have skilled up and saved big thanks to free TAFE

New data reveals more than 110,000 Free TAFE courses have been completed, as the Albanese Government’s Free TAFE policy continues to deliver cost-of-living relief while enabling Australians to…

Release type: Media Release

Date: 20 January 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Same Job Same Pay growing wages for Australian workers

The Albanese Labor Government’s landmark Same Job Same Pay changes are delivering significant wage rises for workers across the economy, by making sure those working as labour hire are not paid…

Release type: Media Release

Date: 17 January 2025

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Lowest average unemployment in half a century under Labor

Today’s jobs figures show the Albanese Government has the lowest average unemployment of any government in fifty years at the same time as inflation is down and wages are up. 

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 16 January 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Jim Chalmers MP
  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Press conference - Brisbane

SUBJECTS: Jobs data, Bruce Highway funding, Middle East ceasefire, inflation, estimates of the NAIRU, Whyalla job losses, Queensland crime, superannuation.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 16 January 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Jim Chalmers MP
  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

More than 100,000 Free TAFE enrolments in Queensland

Free TAFE continues to deliver cost-of-living relief and valuable skills to Queenslanders, as the latest data shows more than 109,000 enrolments across the sunshine state between January 2023 and…

Release type: Media Release

Date: 16 January 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Interview with Jeremy Jones, ABC Capricornia Breakfast

SUBJECTS: Pay rises for workers; Same Job, Same Pay; labour hire workers; cost of living; federal election.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 15 January 2025

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Free TAFE removing cost barriers for priority skills courses

Australians looking to upskill in priority areas will have access to more cost-of-living support in 2025, as the Albanese Government’s Free TAFE program expands to more courses.

Release type: Media Release

Date: 1 January 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Interview with Cathy Van Extel, ABC RN Breakfast

Subjects: happy new year to all Australians, engineered stone import ban, making wage theft illegal, Peter Dutton's opposition to increase wages, Peter Dutton's opposition to important cost-of-living…

Release type: Transcript

Date: 1 January 2025

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Thank you drivers this holiday season

Rideshare and taxi drivers will be working around the clock this holiday season to keep Australians safe and get them where they need to go.

Release type: Media Release

Date: 21 December 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Australians now have the right to disconnect from work this festive period

This summer, for the first time, eligible employees in Australia have a right to disconnect and take their festive break without the pressure of responding to unreasonable contact from their boss…

Release type: Media Release

Date: 20 December 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Press conference, Brisbane

Subjects: treating workers with respect this Christmas; customer aggression towards retail workers; Peter Dutton’s proposed nuclear energy fantasy, MYEFO; 1 million new jobs in Australia; Kyiv…

Release type: Transcript

Date: 19 December 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

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