Eugene Schofield-Georgeson

The pay gap between the chief executive and the typical worker in firms such as BHP is about 100 to 1. Shutterstock

Labor’s pay policy merely hints at helping low paid workers rather than actually doing it

Labor wants to require Australia’s big companies to report the ratio of their chief executive’s pay to their workers’ pay. While it might embarrass some, there’s no evidence it would make them pay their workers more.
For a modest amount, the Custody Notification Service provides NSW with one of the most effective strategies in curbing Indigenous deaths in police custody.` shutterstock

NSW ditches another protection for Indigenous people in custody

Without the Custody Notification Service in NSW, deaths of Indigenous people in police custody will almost certainly increase, along with the over-representation of Indigenous people in prison.
The CFMEU says corruption within the building industry should be referred to the police for prosecution, but the government is looking to a revived ABCC. Julian Smith/AAP

Bikies, unions … and the ABCC? Spinning the policing of work

Recent investigations into the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) by the ABC and Fairfax have revealed relationships between rogue union officials, underworld figures and outlaw motorcycle…

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