Tag: Labor

Labor bill to force ministers to declare ‘rorts’

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Labor will introduce a bill requiring ministers to report when they approve grants rejected by their departments or when they award grants in their own electorates, in an effort...

$800m MMI grants program open to rorts: Labor

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Labor industry spokesman Ed Husic has written to Scott Morrison urging him to commit to following the advice of the department in disbursing an $800 million manufacturing grant program,...

Online Safety Bill passes Senate with amendments

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The controversial Online Safety Bill has passed the Senate and will become law after a late-night session which saw the major parties unite to wave through a number of...

Better business support needed for migrants: Labor

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Migrants in Australia have been left behind in the rush to digitise government services and are missing out on entrepreneurial schemes because of underfunded agencies and poorly designed programs, according...

Research translation needs bipartisan support: Marles

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Labor is open to a long-term bipartisan approach to Australia’s research commercialisation challenge, which deputy Opposition leader Richard Marles this week described as “the single most important piece of...

Albo pitches renewables revolution

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Labor leader Anthony Albanese has told a clean energy summit Australia can’t afford to waste any more time in the transition to renewable energy, hours after the Prime Minister...

Labor’s recharged EV policy a good ‘first step’

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Labor has returned electric vehicles to the policy fray, unveiling a new strategy to drive uptake by cutting taxes and sending thousands of electric powered cars to the second-hand...

Electric vehicles are back on the Labor agenda

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Labor will again push for an increased uptake of electric vehicles at the upcoming election with a range of tax cuts, while the government has turned its attention to...