The AWU scandal involving Prime Minister Julia Gillard's ex-boyfriend is irrelevant to Australian politics today, writes Ben Eltham. Just what was going on in the Australian Workers Union (AWU) in the ...

Federal Small Business Minister Michaelia Cash will face a courtroom in Melbourne this week, in what's likely to be a crucial test for the Government and the union regulator it set up in 2017.

1987: Julia Gillard is employed by Slater & Gordon, a Melbourne-based law firm, as a solicitor and is subsequently promoted in 1990 to the role of salaried partner of the firm. Late 1991: Gillard, who ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Taxpayers have now forked out at least $1.2 million to cover the costs of a police inquiry into leaked information pertaining to raids on ...

An attempt by trade unionists working in the Pilbara mines in Western Australia to end rivalries between their unions, to present a united face to the mining industry bosses, has been sabotaged by the ...

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the Australian Workers' Union and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten have questions to answer after the Australian Federal Police raided the union's Sydney and ...