The Latest Breaking News from Jim Chalmers

A range of issues have dominated conversation in the lead-up to this week's jobs and skills summit but there are pieces of the puzzle missing from the debate.

A third of Leo's workers haven't turned up, and he is worried there are not enough people to pick the mangoes.

With workers’ pay rates stagnant for a decade and inflation eating into spending power, here’s what unions are proposing

The Greens want the Federal Government to introduce a freeze on rent prices nationwide for two years to deal with our crippling rental affordability crisis. Apparently all the landlords in parliament are completely (deliberately?) oblivious.Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather called on the government to introduce the rent freeze on Thursday morning…

The Keating iron fist in the Chalmers’ velvet glove is that if the super funds don’t invest in housing voluntarily, the Labor government will make them.

The ACTU and the Tech Council of Australia have agreed on labour force priorities ahead of the jobs and skills summit.

Labor wants super used to bolster housing supply and support the clean energy transition, but the opposition wants retirement savings to come first.

Decision makers are torn between wanting to lift wages for fairness and consumption, and wanting to keep wages down to control inflation.

The federal government has released an issues paper in preparation for the jobs and skills summit, outlining five key economic challenges to be addressed.