Labor will ensure a more even playing field for private litigants, so that small businesses and their industry representatives can better use existing legislation to prove the abuse of competition under Part IV of the Competition and Consumer Act. Allowing judges in Federal Court to waive liability of adverse costs, private litigants under Part IV...

Labor Opposition Leader Bill Shorten claims millions of Australians, more than 600,000 of them kids, are living below the poverty line. But what do the numbers show?

For most young families in Australia, the dream of purchasing and owning their own home is almost completely out of reach. Working and middle class families are increasingly being priced out of the housing market. Ownership rates for young people aged 25-34 have spiralled downwards in recent years from 60% to 48%. Young people are...

Labor’s Your Child. Our Future represents the most significant improvement in schools education in Australia for two generations. Improving education is the key to opportunity, to innovation and to the future economic and social prosperity of our nation. No matter what their background, no matter where they live - city, suburb or in the regions...

Labor has launched a new booklet outlining fifty practical policies it will take into the 2016 federal election. A year ago, ALP leader Bill Shorten said Labor would be defined by the power of its ideas and over the course of 2015, the Opposition has rolled out more than fifty practical and positive policies. “These...