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Universal Public Early Child Education

Universal public early child education in Australia would pay for itself: research report

Expanded ECEC services would provide a badly-needed boost to Australia’s economic recovery from COVID-19....

House prices means interest rates do not need to rise much to inflict great costs

The more than a decade long period of the Reserve Bank going without raising interest...

A slap-dash budget revealing a government with no idea why it is in power

This year’s budget was transparently targeted towards the May election. But as Fiscal and Labour...

A short-term budget with no vision or coherency

The 2022-23 budget is one of the most shameless election year budgets in memory. With...

Alison Pennington: Budget billions wasted as real wages go backwards

The federal government’s budget would have us believe that the cost of living is a...

In next week’s budget watch out for the tax cut that won’t cut your tax

Next Tuesday, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will deliver the 2022-23 budget. As it is only 2...
Vocational education and training

New research: Australia’s skills system continues to crumble after COVID

A combination of policy vandalism and fiscal mismanagement plunged the VET system into a lasting...

Flat wages and booming house prices cause housing affordability to plunge

Since the stimulus measures introduced in 2020 to prop up the housing market during the...

Record number of people working multiple jobs reveals the problems for workers

The latest Labour Account figures from the Bureau of Statistics reveal that at the end...

Australia’s Lopsided Economic Recovery

In the last three months of last year, households in NSW, Victoria and the ACT...

International Collective Bargaining Experts Explore Future System Reform

Multiple negative economic and social consequences have emerged across Anglophone industrial countries from the retrenchment...

Loss of Bargaining Power Explains Wage Stagnation

The latest wages data from the Bureau of Statistics shows that in 2021 real wages...