Australian workers will be free to change jobs for a pay rise more easily under an Albanese government proposal to ban non-compete agreements that prevent staff defecting to other employers or starting their own business.

The fine print that makes it easier to quit your job – and earn more money

Up to 3 million workers will be free to change jobs under a government proposal to ban non-compete agreements that prevent staff defecting to other employers.

  • Nick Bonyhady

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In their pursuit of profits,social media platforms have fostered harmful environments where social discord,misinformation and disinformation flourish.

The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading

It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’s symbolic ways of currying favour with China are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Senator Michaelia Cash on Monday.

Dutton lays down gauntlet for Albanese over CFMEU corruption

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will challenge Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to introduce new laws after fresh allegations against the CFMEU.

  • Olivia Ireland,Nick Bonyhady andDaniel Lo Surdo
Anthony Albanese,Abbie Chatfield,Peter Dutton and Sam Fricker.

Soft questions,angry comments:Albanese and Dutton hit the podcast campaign

Albanese and Dutton have embraced a strategy that helped return Trump to the White House:courting influencers who lob soft questions for audiences who don’t follow mainstream news.

  • Nick Bonyhady,Calum Jaspan,Olivia Ireland andPaul Sakkal
Special Minister of State Don Farrell is leading the government’s sweeping reforms to electoral laws.

Trump turns MPs into Yes Minister caricatures

Trade Minister Don Farrell is certain Australia is obeying the president’s trade diktats. Exactly how he couldn’t say.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Oscar Jenkins,pictured (left) playing for Toorak Prahran Cricket Club,was captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine (right).

‘All options on the table’ after reports of Australian’s death at Russia’s hands

The government is making urgent inquiries after reports the body of Melbourne man Oscar Jenkins,who was fighting for Ukraine,has been found.

  • Matthew Knott andNick Bonyhady
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Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

Australian on Meta’s ‘Supreme Court’ warns of tensions over fact-checking curb

Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the role of the recent US elections in his thinking,saying they “feel like a cultural tipping point”.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Peter Dutton is likely to announce a reshuffle before Christmas.

Dutton to revamp his election-year frontbench as MPs head for exits

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will unveil a revamped frontbench as soon as this weekend,in a shake-up to replace two shadow ministers and promote younger MPs.

  • Nick Bonyhady andJames Massola
Qube workers are planning industrial action at facilities including Port Kembla.

Christmas strikes to roil Australian ports as CFMEU ‘plays Grinch’

Bulk goods such as building supplies,fertiliser and grains will be held up as the Maritime Union calls rolling strikes at several ports around the country.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Peter Dutton has supported a woman’s right to choose on abortion.

Dutton doesn’t have an ideology,he has a personality

For all his image as a conservative dogmatist,if Peter Dutton has outward faith,it is in his own judgment,and he has used it to back abortion rights.

  • Nick Bonyhady