Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Senator the Hon Murray Watt

  • Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

Senator the Hon Murray Watt was sworn in as Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations on 29 July 2024.

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Paid family and domestic violence leave helping workers cope in crisis

An independent statutory review of the Albanese Government’s paid family and domestic violence leave has found the program is succeeding in supporting the financial security of those escaping or…

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 9 October 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
  • The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP
  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Interview - ABC RN Breakfast with Patricia Karvelas

PATRICIA KARVELAS, HOST: The Federal Government has today announced a review of one of the Government's major changes to Australia's industrial relations laws.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 2 October 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Independent review of Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act commences

The Albanese Government is fulfilling its commitment to undertake an independent review of its workplace relations reforms, with Emeritus Professor Mark Bray and Professor Alison…

Release type: Media Release

Date: 2 October 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Address to the SDA National Council

***CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY***

Release type: Transcript

Date: 1 October 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Safer workplaces are better workplaces

National Safe Work Month is now underway, serving as an important opportunity to reflect and address the importance of safe workplace practices right across Australia.

Release type: Media Release

Date: 1 October 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Next steps to ensuring fair pay and conditions for working women

The Albanese Government is supporting an historic review of the undervaluation of wages in feminised industries, in the next step towards reducing the gender pay gap. 

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 30 September 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Press conference, Canberra

SUBJECTS: More jobs created under the Albanese Government; Net overseas migration; Chris Ellison; CFMEU.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 19 September 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

More new jobs created under Labor

An extra 47,500 jobs have been created in the last month, with the Albanese Government continuing to oversee the largest increase in employment in a single parliamentary term in Australia’s…

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 19 September 2024

Ministers:

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

Accrediting more builders to safely tackle Australia's housing needs

The Government is making it simpler for more builders to get on-site faster, while ensuring their workers’ safety, to help address the nation’s urgent need for more homes. 

Release type: Media Release

Date: 19 September 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Address to the National Press Club - Q&A

DAVID CROWE, HOST: Well, thank you very much, Senator Watt, for that address. We have 18 journalists on the list to ask questions so there is plenty of questions on many…

Release type: Transcript

Date: 18 September 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Address to the National Press Club

***CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY***"Don't look back in anger"

Release type: Speech

Date: 18 September 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Engineered stone importation ban to start January 1

After years of harrowing stories of workers as young as 30 years old suffering and dying from silicosis, the Albanese Government is taking further action to protect workers from this disease.

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 18 September 2024

Ministers:

  • The Hon Tony Burke MP
  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt