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The Centre for Future Work is an independent research centre focused on making the world of work better for working people and their families.

We conduct and publish progressive economic and social research on work, employment, and labour markets. Our research concerns the issues facing working people including the future of jobs, wages and income distribution, skills and training, workers’ rights and working conditions, sector and industry directions, the role of government and public services and more. The Centre develops timely and practical policy proposals.

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The Stage 3 tax cuts are bad economics combined with terrible politics. They should be dumped.

The Stage 3 tax cuts were always bad, but with the removal of the low-middle...

Wealth inequality across generations will only fuel voter disenchantment

Millennials are not becoming more conservative as they age – and the rigged housing market...

With the impact of rate rises still to come the RBA is wise to pause

Perhaps as much as a third of the rate rises since April have yet to...

Stop the fear, give workers a fair pay rise

The whole point of public-sector wage caps is to keep all wages down It took...

The housing market has cooled, but housing unaffordability remains a long way off

House prices are falling but housing unaffordability remains high The most recent data on the...

Women Earn $1m less than men & $136,000 Less in Super over Working Life

New research released on International Women’s Day reveals Australian women earn $1.01m less over their...

Australian Inflation Reflects a Historic Redistribution from Workers to Bosses

The upsurge of inflation since the COVID-19 lockdowns has not had equal impacts on all...
Profit-price spiral

Profit-price spiral: excess profits fuelling inflation & interest rates, not wages

New empirical research reveals the main driver for inflation in Australia is excess corporate profits,...

Superannuation needs an objective and needs to be reviewed

Superannuation is too important for retirement to be allowed to be a tax dodge scheme...

Carmichael Centre Announces Appointment of Prof. David Peetz as Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow

Prof. Emeritus Peetz has recently retired from a long career at Griffith University, where he...

With interest rates set to rise another 3 times, no wonder consumers are feeling grim

The Reserve Bank now forecasts real household incomes will take longer to recover than they...

The Reserve Bank is betting that monetary policy is not powerful

The signs are already evident that household consumption is falling despite most mortgage holders yet...