Historical material
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The Victorian minimum wage
The Australian minimum wage: The Harvester Decision
5. Ex parte H.V. McKay (Harvester Case) [1907]
6. Report of the Royal Commission on the Basic Wage (Piddington Report) [1920]
7. Federated Gas Employees Industrial Union v. Metropolitan Gas Company and Others [1921]
8. The Merchant Service Guild of Australasia v. The Commonwealth Steam-ship Owners' Association [1906]
Minimum wages after Harvester
9. The Australian minimum wage [1906–2013]
10. Methods of wage adjustment
11. Metal trades base level minimum wages [1967–2015]
12. 100 years of the minimum wage—Statistical comparison
13. Items 9–12 (above) are consolidated in: The history of the Australian minimum wage (PDF). The history includes hyperlinks to the actual decisions and orders.
14. Graph of Australian minimum wage since 1906
15. Australian minimum wage and fitter (trades) rates since 1906
Equal pay for women
17. The Rural Workers’ Union and The South Australian United Labourers' Union v. The Employers [1912]
Aboriginal stockmen
Minimum wages for young people
24. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers v. The Adelaide Steam-ship Company Limited and Others [1921]
25. Australian Boot Trade Employees Federation v. Whybrow & Co. and Others [1909]
Annual leave
Sick leave
Parental leave
Hours of work
Apprenticeship & vocational information
33. Apprenticeship indentures [1928, 1931]
34. Vocational guidance leaflet for careers in bootmaking and boot repairing [1941]
Cost of living newspaper articles from the early 1900s
35. Newspaper articles in relation to the costs of housekeeping and living [1901–18]
Other historic cases
36. Historic case judgments [1907–2004]
37. Current and previous major cases before the Commission and its predecessors