Tag: Bill Shorten

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Shorten’s future ready wages pitch

Australia’s wages system needs to be “renovated” to help prepare for technology change, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said, as he positioned the upcoming election as a “referendum on wages”....

Parliament cyber attack details

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A nation-state was behind the recent cyber attack on the federal Parliament, and the networks of both major parties were also compromised, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed. Speaking...

Husic on the encryption bill

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Passing the highly controversial bill was an “incredibly hard choice”, and the Opposition will look to strengthen protections in the scheme if it wins next year’s election, shadow digital...

Encryption: Tech sector is reeling

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Australian tech sector has been left reeling following the shock passage of controversial encryption legislation last week, with fears the new laws will do “significant damage” to the...

Labor caves on encryption bill

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A farcical day in the Parliament has ended with Labor caving at the last minute and passing the government’s encryption bill, just as it looked like the controversial legislation...

Shorten offers big lift in science

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Opposition leader Bill Shorten would return science to the centre of government decision-making and drive central efforts to lift the nation’s spending on research and development by billions of...

Shorten targets the gig economy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Federal Labor will crack down on the gig economy and the casualisation of workers if it wins the next election, Opposition leader Bill Shorten said during a by-election pitch...

Labor: $1b fund for manufacturers

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Labor will create a $1 billion fund to help innovative manufacturing firms transition into high value production and “build for the future” if it wins the next federal election....

United front on tech extremism

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australian politicians from both sides of the aisle have united to call on big tech firms like Facebook and Google to do more to fight the spread of extremism...

Budget reply short on optimism

Posted on   |  by James Riley
You wouldn’t want to read too much into it, but Bill Shorten’s faux-feisty budget reply last night did nothing to paint a picture of how Labor would shape Australia’s...