Albanese promises $10 billion fund to cut housing costs for workers
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Labor has promised a $10 billion fund to cut housing costs for workers in a response to the federal budget that seeks to galvanise voter concerns about soaring house prices and rising rents.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese also pledged more incentives for employers to hire 10,000 apprentices in fields like renewable energy, accusing the federal government of doing too little to help younger Australians.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has promised to create a $10 billion fund to pay for new housing.
He also challenged Prime Minister Scott Morrison to do more to protect women from sexual harassment, saying a Labor government would pass laws to place a âpositive dutyâ on employers to eliminate sex discrimination, harassment and victimisation.
Mr Albanese put the new policies at the heart of a budget reply speech that slammed this weekâs federal budget for failing Australians and shifting blame to the states on the response to the pandemic.
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âYou deserve a government worthy of your efforts,â Mr Albanese said in a promise to voters that a Labor government would act on falls in real wages.
Brittany Higginsâ meetings with Morrison, Albanese finally locked in
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Former government adviser Brittany Higgins will meet Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday, more than two months since she went public with shocking allegations that she was raped in Parliament House.
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The Sunday Age has also learned Ms Higgins will also hold a separate face-to-face meeting with Anthony Albanese after the Opposition Leader made contact with the former Liberal adviser.
Brittany Higgins has asked Prime Minister Scott Morrison to meet in late April.
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Pressure builds on PwC, EY to reveal staff complaint statistics
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Pressure is growing on big four consultancies PwC and EY to emulate rival Deloitte by voluntarily disclosing the number of workplace investigations conducted each year, after details of KPMGâs complaints catalogue were revealed.
Deloitte on Wednesday said the firm had investigated roughly 15 workplace conduct cases annually over the past three years.
The disclosure followed
The Australian Financial Review publishing details of a list of sexual harassment and bullying complaints at rival KPMG that showed the firm had received about 17 complaints a year between 2014 and March 2019.
The KPMG data showed the majority of complaints either bullying allegations against senior leaders or sexual harassment complaints against junior staff.