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To gig or not to gig. Is that the question?

14 June 2023

5:00 AM

14 June 2023

5:00 AM

If you’ve ever been to a pub gig, you’ll have taken part in what the Albanese government wants to (effectively) close down. The Albanese agenda became starkly clear in 2022 after Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke declared the ‘gig economy’ is a ‘cancer’. Burke stated that it’s an agenda not open to discussion, and that legislation will be introduced in late 2023.

The gig economy is not something new.

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