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Industrial News 27 September 2026

The Indigenous Pay Gap Is a Workers' Fight

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers take home 84 cents for every dollar the average Australian worker earns. Across a year, that is an 18% income gap, or close to two months of work handed over to the boss for nothing. The figures come from Towards Indigenous pay parity, released on 24 September by the Centre for Indigenous People and Work (CIPW) and Indigenous Business Australia. The average First Nations worker earns $41.59 an hour against $49.46 for the whole workforce. Over a...

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Industrial News 15 September 2026

The first right to disconnect ruling is in, and the boss won

Two years after the right to disconnect became law, someone finally tested it. On 19 August 2026 the South Australian Employment Tribunal handed down its decisions in Elliot v Mcguire [2026] SAET 107 and Kalleske v Mcguire [2026] SAET 106. Deputy President Stephen Lieschke found that a salon owner who sent her teenage apprentices Snapchat and TikTok videos outside their hours, made their next shift hostile when they did not reply, kept calling one of them while she was having urgent medical...

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Story 17 August 2026

Anyone but Argentina

For a month, people who agree on almost nothing found themselves agreeing on one thing — from Lagos to Liverpool to Lima, all quietly hoping for the same result.

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Back editions

  1. Know-how 17 August 2026

    Every Job Has a Barry

    He reckons the union does nothing. He also takes every pay rise, every allowance and every RDO the union won. Here is how to talk to him without turning it into a blue, and why writing him off costs you more than it costs him.

  2. Know-how 17 August 2026

    Building Power Between Agreements

    “The union didn’t fight hard enough.” Every delegate has heard it, and the pronoun is the whole problem. A step-by-step look at the quiet years between agreements, from the debrief after the vote through to a claims survey worth the paper it is printed on.