Qantas staff are being told to take their annual leave during the coronavirus crisis and those without leave are being offered four weeks worth of future pay. Alan Jones says, “this is basically the worker underwriting the company even though the company’s got $715 million!” Transport Workers Union Secretary Michael Kaine tells Alan Jones Qantas […]

The Reserve Bank has slashed interest rates to 0.25 per cent after calling an emergency meeting to try to save the economy. The RBA met before their scheduled meeting next month after it outlined it would deploy quantitative easing on the financial system. The Federal Government is also working on new stimulus measures to minimise […]

The former president of the Business Council of Australia says workers should be given the option to have their super paid out to them while Australia struggles with coronavirus. Former BCA President Tony Shepherd tells Deborah Knight allowing workers to temporarily get their super in cash could save the economy. “People can either put that […]

ACCC chairman Rod Sims is encouraging people to shun petrol retailers that are price gouging. As world oil prices tumble to near-decade lows the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission is discouraging people from filling up at petrol stations which are overcharging. The cheapest Unleaded fuel in Sydney is at an Independent service station in Villawood […]

The travel industry is asking Australians to reconsider cancelling trips towards the end of the year as the impact of coronavirus threatens to cripple the industry. Countries around the world have closed their borders and Australians have been advised to cancel all unnecessary overseas travel. But Australian Federation of Travel Agents CEO Jayson Westbury tells […]

Australia’s largest union is calling on the federal government to support workers amid growing coronavirus fears. The Australian Council of Trade Unions wants the government to legislate two weeks paid “special leave” for all workers affected by coronavirus isolation or business closure. Casual workers make up almost a quarter of the workforce but aren’t entitled […]