Labor

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Labor

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 3 reports

Labor and coalition rule out GST hike

For all their bickering, Labor and the coalition appear to be unified on one policy front. Both have adamantly ruled out hiking the GST rate if elected in September, with Labor claiming it would hurt poorer Australians and the coalition passing it off ... [Published The Sydney News - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Coalition, Labor, Tony Abbott

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 5 reports

Support for Labor dismal as ever- poll

Polls suggest many voters want to scrap the baby bonus but it will not change the way they will vote. ... [Published Herald Sun - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Labor

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 2 reports

Labor no worse off after the Budget

Good news for Labor. A Budget that should have utterly destroyed its credibility actually leaves it no worse off:WAYNE Swan’s decision to axe the baby bonus has won voters’ approval but nearly half of all voters believe the Budget has left them worse ... [Published Daily Telegraph Australia - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Labor, Wayne Swan, Coalition

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 3 reports

Double dissolution on Coalition’s cards

The Coalition has reaffirmed it could call a double-dissolution election if it wins government but is blocked from repealing the carbon tax.Opposition MPs on Saturday repeated their view that September's election would be a referendum on the carbon tax, ... [Published WA Today - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Coalition, Carbon Tax, Labor, Dissolution, Elections

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 12 hours ago - 4 reports

John Boehner

Lew: Debt ceiling will hit after Labor Day

By David JacksonUSA TODAYIf there's a debt ceiling showdown between President Obama and congressional Republicans, it probably won't happen until after Labor Day.Treasury Secretary Jack Lew notified House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Friday that the ... [Published News10Net - May 18 2013]

Entities: Debt Ceiling, Labor, John Boehner

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 13 hours ago - 5 reports

Christopher Pyne

Labor raising fear over super: Coalition

The Coalition has accused the federal government of running a "hysterical scare campaign" over superannuation, as Labor MPs across the country rally to warn that Tony Abbott would cut retirement savings to the bone.Treasurer Wayne Swan, Superannuation ... [Published Canberra Times - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Tony Abbott, Coalition, Christopher Pyne, Bill Shorten

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 19 hours ago - 2 reports

Md. sheds 6,200 jobs in April, Labor Department says

Maryland employers slashed 6,200 jobs in April, cutting short a string of gains, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday, as the state began feeling the pinch of federal budget sequestration and cutbacks in consumer spending.But the government's separate ... [Published Individual.com - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Patrick Clarke, Labor, Sequestration, Consumer Spending, Layoffs

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 21 hours ago - 5 reports

MECO confirms violence against OFWs in Taiwan

Manila, Philippines --- The Manila Economic Cooperation Office (MECO) in Taipei has confirmed reports that Filipinos in Taiwan are experiencing discrimination and harassment from Taiwanese and that an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Kaoshiung was hit ... [Published Yahoo Philippines News - May 17 2013]

Entities: Taiwan, Labor, Manila, Liezle Basa Inigo

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 3 reports

Labor mounting fear over super: coalition

AAPThe coalition has accused the federal government of running a "hysterical scare campaign" over superannuation, as Labor MPs across the country rally to warn that Tony Abbott would cut retirement savings to the bone.Treasurer Wayne Swan, Superannuation ... [Published WA Today - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Tony Abbott, Coalition, Christopher Pyne, Bill Shorten

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 2 reports

Remember when Labor would stop the warming, house the homeless and teach the children?

Kevin Rudd declares in 2007: Today: Australia has all but dumped $75 million of projects regrowing forests in the developing world and shelved a $100 million forest carbon partnership between Indonesia and Australia? , the budget papers reveal.Kevin Rudd ... [Published Daily Telegraph Australia - May 18 2013]

Entities: Kevin Rudd, Labor, Julia Gillard

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 4 reports

Leaders likely to rise to challenge of tough economic decisions

Budget week has left Australians with significant details about how the nation will change after the election, no matter who wins. Labor and the Coalition deserve credit for revealing their vision and core policy areas.We have even seen details of funding ... [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 17 2013]

Entities: Tony Abbott, Coalition, Labor, Carbon Tax

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 3 reports

Abbott budget reply: mind the gap between rhetoric and reality

Tony Abbott’s budget reply speech suggests that, despite a “budget emergency”, a Coalition government’s fiscal policy would be broadly similar to Labor’s. His rhetoric is austere, but his promises are not.How far has our understanding of the Coalition’s ... [Published Crikey Media - May 17 2013]

Entities: Tony Abbott, Coalition, Labor, Carbon Tax

Quotes

"Tariff increases mean not only increased prices for imported cars, but increased prices for locally made cars" she said in a statement

Xenophon supports boost to car tariffs [Published Adelaide Now - 24 mins ago]

"It is no longer my struggle now," she said. "It's bigger than I am, and I'm going to spend every day of every week trying to help us get some justice."

A 'non-reelect' fights on [Published Individual.com - 24 mins ago]

"NBN Co's construction contractors are also increasing their investment in equipment and manpower as well as technology to accelerate on-the-ground design and planning."

NBN delays a worry for Labor (The West Australian) [Published West Australian - 31 mins ago]

"The interesting thing will be to what extent we see overseas trips in the future now that the allowance is gone" he told Network Ten

MPs should justify overseas trips: Wong [Published Perth Now - 40 mins ago]

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