Wage growth is stifled, industrial action is non-existent. We spoke to ACTU secretary Sally McManus about the change she looks to enable.

The gap in work wage and performance at school still sadly stands. In fact, our moves up to this point have been focusing on the wrong people. Time to shift our focus.
With Prince Charles visiting our shores, I thought this would be an opportune moment to make a few things clear to him.
Back in November, comedian Matt Okine travelled to PNG to see the meaningful progress being made to combat the horrific culture of violence against women.
Michaelia Cash might be the latest example of it, but the general idea our ministers possess is that failure does not equate to removal from office.
With the oft-discussed sugar tax around the corner, the question is not when, but rather who should profit from it. I certainly know who shouldn’t.
In the 2018 edition of Davos great wars were promised against inequality, plutocracy and the rise of the machines, we left with great hope. But can we really expect progress?
The Aziz Ansari situation is beyond just that. It speaks of the larger issue, in how we’re quick to blame women and excuse men.
The new media laws are set to raze the landscape, with old voices and new operating at an increasingly hysterical pitch. Their first target, our balanced public broadcasters.
In his latest effort, John Safran discovered radicals and sub-groups who all hate each other, but are somehow bonded by their negative obsession with his people.
I sat down with the peerless John Laws to discuss the enemies of the past, his hopes for the future, and the world beyond that. If you think the great man has mellowed with age, think again.
David Gonski reflects on education and Jewish values, his surprising celebrity, and the state of Israel with Plus61J Editor, Michael Visontay. Read the full interview here on Plus61J. A few years ago, David Gonski walked into a reception in a Sydney office block and passed a sign saying I give a Gonski. The woman…
To do it you simply write their name on a piece of paper and pop it in the freezer. It sounds ridiculous, but I don’t care.
Rolf Harris is not the only one in the spotlight in his trial. Those who give evidence against him suffer their own shame, primarily from the collected media who want to know “why?”
Love, as they say, is a losing game, and that is never truer than on this particular day of the calendar. But it’s not all bad. “Attached” doesn’t necessarily mean “happy”, so well done, us losers!
The full effect of Trump’s twisting of language and facts may be felt overseas, as his governance tactics may surrender the ground won by democracy over the past half century.
It seems we can be forgiven after all for weeping over the deaths of celebrities we never meet. We mourn our own fragility, faced with the reminder that nobody can live forever.
Donald Trump’s reinforcement of the glass ceiling may be shattered by the erudite confidence of his daughter Ivanka. Watch this space.
Forecasts place digital front and centre in the Australian workforce’s future, yet NSW is refusing to modernise, at the risk of disadvantaging its future.
The winning vote for a Donald Trump presidency has seen cries that democracy has failed and strong rejection from those oppose. Seems nothing was learned from Brexit, right?
Trump’s surprise win over Clinton is a shock to the system, but it proves how far we truly stand back in righting equality.
We’re afforded one last glance at the Thin White Duke as the expansive, private art collection of David Bowie goes under the hammer today.