By Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University So certain is the Australian government that childcare workers are being poorly paid that it is handing them an…
By David Hensher AM, University of Sydney Announcing the directive to work “primarily in an approved office”, NSW Premier Chris Minns said overseas studies showed people were less productive when…
By Irma Mooi-Reci, The University of Melbourne and Trong-Anh Trinh, Monash University Across developed countries, including Australia, fewer babies are being born. In 2023, 289,100 babies were born in Australia,…
By Jeff Borland, The University of Melbourne Five weeks annual leave is an idea whose time may have come. A decade ago, a Productivity Commission inquiry into Australia’s industrial relations…
By Chris Briggs, University of Technology Sydney and Ruby Heard, The University of Melbourne Done well, the renewable energy transition should improve the lives of First Nations Australians. Many are…
By Laurie Berg, University of Technology Sydney and Bassina Farbenblum, UNSW Sydney The widespread underpayment of migrant workers in Australia is now well-documented. The vast majority never recover the wages…
By Adam Triggs, Australian National University Workers who were made redundant in coal-fired power plants between 2010 and 2020 saw their incomes plummet by 69% in the year after they…
By Jeff Borland, The University of Melbourne For some time now – gradually, but nevertheless relentlessly – the Australian labour market has been weakening. Today’s Bureau of Statistics employment report,…
By Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University What is it with the Coalition and wages? When, in the final days of the 2022 election campaign, the…
By Bruce Chen, Deakin University; Julie Debeljak, Monash University, and Pamela Tate, Monash University This week, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights reported on its Inquiry into Australia’s Human…
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