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Minister Alex Hawke with Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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President Xi Jinping may be concerned about a spike in the death rate if China’s tough COVID restrictions are lifted – and the political fallout from it.
Independent Senator David Pocock will vote for the government’s industrial relations bill.
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Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
For more than a decade, employers have strung out negotiations or let agreements expire. Known as “zombie agreements”, those deals mean too many Australians are living with wages frozen in the past.