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Labor looks to boost protections for workers in insecure jobs: Albanese

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Anthony Albanese has promised to open a “conversation” about new ways of protecting workers in insecure employment, and committed to a root and branch overhaul of the “broken” vocational education system.

In his speech on jobs and the future of work, delivered in Perth on Tuesday, Albanese declared today’s new...

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