Mike Burgess tells hearing he would have concerns about easing provisions for Asio’s scrutiny of journalists. Follow the day’s news liveChalmers: we can have cost-of-living relief and wage growthHere is how Jim Chalmers was selling the wage submission (at least on ABC TV this morning). The treasurer said it wasn’t a binary choice between cost of living relief and wages growth:We don’t see cost of living relief as ‘instead of’ decent wages growth. We want to see wages growth on top of the billions of dollars of cost of living relief that the Albanese government is rolling out.… The tax cuts we’re rolling out for everyone, or cheaper childhood education or cheaper medicines – none of those are a substitute for getting wages growing in the economy once again.I think if you’ve followed Tasmanian laws, and they’ve worked very well down there and actually your bill is based on that, you might have … a good good bit of airing out there and actually be able to settle this once and for all.I think there’s a very fine line between having choices … and running … a business or a school or anything else.People send their kids to faith based schools with expectations and I think we’ve got a walk a very, very fine line with all of that. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/25/australia-politics-live-labor-pay-labour-wages-liberal-anthony-albanese-interest-question-time-peter-dutton-albanese
Author : Amy Remeikis
Publish date : 2024-03-25 00:41:14
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Australia politics live: Asio chief defends investigating journalists for ‘potential threats to security’; watchdog concerned over secrecy crimes
