Interview with Patricia Karvelas - ABC News Afternoon Briefing

Subjects: Australia will recognise a Palestinian State; July labour force data shows the Albanese Government is creating more jobs; under the Albanese Government, the gender pay gap has never been…

Release type: Transcript

Date: 14 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Patrick Gorman MP

More jobs and low unemployment under Labor

ABS Labour Force Survey figures released today confirm that a record 14,641,400 Australians are in work and the unemployment rate, at 4.2 per cent, remains historically low.

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 14 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP
  • The Hon Jim Chalmers MP

Review finds Secure Jobs, Better Pay delivering for Australian workers

The final report of the independent panel conducting the statutory review of the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act has found the Albanese Labor Government’s workplace changes are already…

Release type: Media Release

Date: 14 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP

Interview with Bridget Brennan - ABC News Breakfast

Topics: Productivity Roundtable; National Construction Code; are economy; positive wage growth; algal bloom on SA coastline.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 14 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP

Interview with Natalie Barr - Channel Seven Sunrise

Topics: Australia’s recognition of Palestine; Enterprise Bargaining.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 14 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP

Interview with Tom Connell - Sky News Politics Now

Topics: Four day working week; work from home.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 13 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP

Future Skills Organisation National Forum Canberra

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Release type: Speech

Date: 13 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Strongest annual real wages growth in five years

New data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that annual real wages have now grown for seven consecutive quarters under the Albanese Labor Government.

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 13 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Jim Chalmers MP
  • The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP

Interview with Patricia Karvelas - ABC News Afternoon Briefing

Topics: wage growth and productivity; four-day working week proposal; enterprise bargaining; Australia’s recognition of Palestine.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 13 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP

Interview with Karl Stefanovic - Channel Nine, Today Show

Topics: Australia to recognise Palestinian State.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 12 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP

Television interview with Tom Connell - Sky News Afternoon Agenda

Subjects: the Prime Minister’s announcement regarding Palestine; the upcoming Productivity Roundtable.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 11 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Patrick Gorman MP

Interview with Kylie Baxter - ABC Tasmania Statewide Drive

Subjects: Visit to Burnie; Free TAFE enrolments in Tasmania; Health workforce; Student debt relief; Women in trades.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 6 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

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