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After numerous catastrophic financial collapses and controversies, the previous Federal Government passed new laws to regulate the financial advice industry, known as the Future of Financial Advice (or FoFA) laws. However, the current Abbott Government wants to dramatically water down those reforms with new regulations, even as they have received…

The Abbott Government's assault on workers continues today with shocking reports that it intends to make it easier for employers to bypass local workers and Australian industries. The reports outline the Coalition's intention to make it easier for employers to hire 457 visa workers and for major projects to import…

Unions demand the Abbott Government drop any attempt to introduce Individual Contracts that will cut take-home pay. ACTU President Ged Kearney said the Abbott Government has given employers the green light to cut people's pay under the guise of greater 'flexibility'. "This is a blatant attempt to cut pay and…

As G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bankers prepare to meet in Sydney, the "Labour 20" warned against complacency by policy makers that risks leading to higher not lower unemployment. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the ITUC said that the time has come for Finance Ministers to recognise that their policies…

With the wage Price Index released today showing wages growth well below average in every single industry, it's time for the Abbott Government to come clean about the non-existent 'wages-blowout'. ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver said, "The truth is that we are seeing the slowest wages growth on record and it's…

With mounting job losses and the highest unemployment rate in over a decade, the Abbott Government needs to abandon its empty rhetoric and tell Australians where the new jobs are going to come from. ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver said news today that Aloca will close its Point Henry aluminium smelter…

TONY Abbott and his new Coalition government have long planned a Royal Commission into the union movement. This, of course, was not a policy that the Coalition took to the 2013 election. Such a naked attack would have ‘scared the horses’, exposing what the Coalition has been desperate to hide—its…

The ASU's success in negotiating the world's first enterprise agreement clause supporting victims of domestic violence in 2010 has been recognised in a recent academic study as an instance of achieving equality measures through bargaining. The study by Professor Marian Baird of Sydney University considered the circumstances around the ASU's…

The ASU welcomed the announcement late last year of the establishment of a Senate Select Committee to inquire into the Federal Government's National Commission of Audit (NCA). We believe this Senate Committee will provide some independent advice and allow community views to be heard. The ASU has lodged a submission…