Job security and wages will be Anthony Albanese s focus on his six-day Queensland blitz in a bid to win back regional voters who snubbed the party in the 2019 election. The Opposition Leader will launch a Queensland-led regional jobs taskforce focused developing policy to create jobs post-pandemic, particularly in manufacturing and tourism.
The Courier-Mail can reveal he will also announce a new industrial relations policy dubbed same job, same pay . Opposition leader Anthony Albanese is kicking off a six-day Queensland blitz on Saturday. Picture: Gary Ramage/NCA NewsWire It will require labour hire workers to receive the same rate of payment as full-time workers in the same job, which would benefit mining workers in regional areas amid others.
Corporate-box tickets to major sporting events, pre-pandemic overseas flights and even a kava bowl from Samoa are among the free gifts pocketed by Queensland s federal politicians in the past year. There were flights to Bangladesh, India and Israel from lobby groups and a charity were accepted by three MPs. Meanwhile ALP figure Evan Moorhead s lobby firm Anacta Strategies shouted two Queensland Labor senators tickets to the AFL grand final valued at $2250. The gifts are revealed in the official register of interests for federal MPs and senators. One of the most prolific gift accepters was Member for Moncrieff Angie Bell, who declared on her register of interest tickets to the PGA championship, Big Bash tickets, Eurovision Australia Decides, Magic Millions Hospitality, Pink Ribbon Race Day at the Gold Coast Turf Club, two events at the Home of the Arts on the Gold Coast, as well as a study tour to Bangladesh paid for by Save the Children.