Exclusive: full details on Labor’s draft policy policy platform. Anthony Albanese has been given the green light to go to the next election without specific climate change targets for 2030 with a medium-term emissions target absent from the plan. #auspol https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/new-labor-manifesto-drops-emissions-targets-for-2030/news-story/d574a7857d1540fd9be4264661318ecf
Labor will use the COVID-19 economic recovery to pursue an aggressive industrial relations reform agenda, increasing the power of unions and imposing “new rights and forms of equality” in Australian workplaces. #auspol https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/unions-to-get-muscle-in-labors-ir-overhaul/news-story/d2383aa9780b9b233771b18e21c1ffe3
Labor has updated its approach to China in its new draft policy platform, saying that Australia must engage effectively with Beijing but stand up for its “democratic values” while also “safeguarding our sovereignty”. #auspol https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/labor-australia-cant-cut-ties-with-beijing/news-story/e22cb3302de8b83814ff8b11e107a2fc
A “pathway to increasing” the superannuation guarantee to 15 per cent, enshrined within the ALP’s new draft platform, will present a sharper difference between Labor and the Coalition at the next election than at the 2019 poll. #auspol https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/super-pathway-to-15pc-guarantee-set-in-stone/news-story/7812ef10f74de8c647540231f5c7ced0
An Albanese government would overhaul the temporary migration program, prioritise regional resettlement arrangements for asylum-seekers and provide humanitarian protection for LGBTIQ people who are facing criminal offences because of their sexuality. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anthony-albanese-aims-for-migrant-shakeup/news-story/c39ae4629fd6b5d6130496fb891cc028
Labor’s new draft platform has elevated the party’s commitment to the development of new measurements of economic progress to complement gross domestic product, including new standards to gauge “societal wellbeing.” #auspol https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/social-wellbeing-to-be-a-kpi/news-story/812c4cbfd6e42fbcb41d8f808f322ee1