The Latest Breaking News from Jim Chalmers

The federal government will hold its signature jobs and skills summit this week where plugging labour shortages will be a key focus.

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.

Business Council of Australia also calls for migrant intake boost as Greens set up Senate standoff to raise wages in female-dominated industries

The Greens declare they will push for additional pay rises for workers on the minimum wage and those in women-dominated industries in exchange for supporting any legislative proposals stemming from the government's jobs summit.

A new study shows the meningococcal virus increased its spread in 2020 despite restrictive COVID-19 lockdowns.

The escalating cost of living is your ally when you’re an opposition seeking election, but when you’re in office, it’s a rampaging beast to manage, economically and politically.

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.