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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Labor president Wayne Swan on the party's coming national conference

Next week the Labor Party will hold its national conference in Brisbane. It’s the first face-to-face conference in five years. These conferences don’t have anything like the bite they once did, but there’s still a chance for the party’s rank and file to have a shout about issues. More than…

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$There's a fraction too much faction in Labor: minister$

There's a fraction too much faction in Labor: minister

Assistant Minister Andrew Leigh says Labor needs to be more accommodating to members who do not want to be aligned to well-entrenched factions.

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Andrew Leigh calls out how Labor's factional 'duopoly' is undermining the party

Andrew Leigh, an assistant minister in the Albanese government, has launched a swingeing attack on the stranglehold the factional “duopoly” has on the Labor Party.

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1 in 5 Australian workers have non-compete clauses, making it harder to get better paid jobs: new survey

To many of us, “non-compete clauses” are for other people – TV presenters and chief executives; the sort of people who, if they left their employer for a competitor, would take with them inside knowledge and so must be stopped by a legal agreement, at least for a period of…

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Will Albanese live up to his own promises to end pork-barrelling? There is a sliver of hope

Like Kevin Rudd before him, Anthony Albanese is taking an odd approach to evidence.

The Conversation

Nationals push for $10m fines and ability to break up Coles and Woolworths if they abuse market power

Exclusive: David Littleproud says former Coalition government was ‘too slow’ on compulsory grocery code of conduct

The Guardian - AU

New government unit to save millions on consultants

The federal government has set up a new unit to check government programs are delivering as promised, that could save millions in private consultancy fees.

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Jacqui Lambie criticises government over broken promises as cost of living takes centre stage on Q+A ahead of federal budget

With an expected $4 billion budget surplus, the government comes under fire from Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie for withholding spending on Australia's most vulnerable.

ABC News

Premier targets healthcare ahead of national cabinet – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Crackdown on 'dark' internet design on the cards

Sneaky web design tricks used by online providers to make it hard to cancel a subscription could be targeted to prevent a "race to the bottom in dodginess".

AAP

Roald Dahl rewrite shows need for new digital rules

Netflix's 'sensitivity' revisions of the Roald Dahl books is a result of market concentration and Australia will need new rules to cope, a minister said.

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Right to repair changes floated as frustrated farmers count cost of harvest delays

The right to repair their equipment may soon be on the table for farmers, who say machinery breakdowns cost them dearly as they wait for company-specific technicians to arrive.

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Market concentration ‘holding back worker wages’

The assistant minister for competition says highly concentrated markets, especially in the regions, are contributing to sluggish real wage growth.

The New Daily

One reason Australian wages are depressed? Formidable employer power

Dominant employers are preventing wages growing more quickly in Australia, according to a new Treasury paper.

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Market concentration 'holding back worker wages'

The assistant minister for competition says highly concentrated markets, especially in the regions, are contributing to sluggish real wage growth.

The Canberra Times

Workplace Giving program launched by St Vincent de Paul to help Canberra's vulnerable

Can you give $2 a week? Or a little more?

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s new $5 banknote will feature Indigenous history instead of King Charles

Government backs Reserve Bank decision to replace Queen Elizabeth II’s portrait with design ‘honouring culture and history of First Australians’

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Warning shot fired at hotel booking sites

Hotel booking websites are being placed on notice over their behaviour and other digital platforms have been warned they are are not exempt from Australian law.

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Protest over rent hike at 'Big Fat Gypsy Weddings' caravan site

Travellers in mobile homes face a 12.4pc increase while those in social housing properties will pay seven per cent more

Manchester Evening News

Rent hike at 'Big Fat Gypsy Weddings' caravan site 'leaves bad taste in mouth'

There will be a 12.4pc increase for Travellers living in mobile homes

The New Daily

Excessive market power and markups lead to economic problems

It’s not easy, but Australia has an opportunity to boost productivity — the key to increasing living standards, Andrew Leigh writes.

The New Daily

Hotel booking sites actually make it hard to get cheap deals, but there’s a way around it

Booking sites have the perverse effect of keeping prices high, especially when the fees they charge hotels are taken into account.

The Conversation

Hotel booking sites actually make it hard to get cheap deals, but there's a way around it

Booking a place to stay on holidays has become a reflex action.

The Canberra Times

COVID deaths highest among disadvantaged communities

Deaths due to COVID were also more prevalent in areas with greater socio-economic disadvantage such as in poorer areas and among migrant and Indigenous communities.

The Guardian - AU

Australia could free a third of its prisoners with little risk to community, new research finds

Exclusive: Study says reduced incarceration of non-violent offenders can deliver savings to taxpayers and get more people into work

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