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Australia’s Electricity Infrastructure Undermined by $1 Billion Per Year Under Investment

The resilience of Australia’s electricity infrastructure is being undermined by a chronic pattern of underinvestment...

Rage & Optimism as an Activist Economist

Crikey is reclaiming the “angry woman” trope in a new column about what women achieve...

Expansion of Employer Power to Use Casual Work Hurts Women Most

As women lead mobilisations against workplace gendered violence, the federal government passed legislation expanding employer...

Wrecking superannuation, not protecting women, is the government’s priority

It doesn’t matter what the crisis, when it comes to the Morrison government the message...

Casual Job Surge Widens Gender Pay Gap

New research, released for International Women’s Day, shows Australia’s recovery from the pandemic recession has...

Business Council of Australia Research Confirms Centre for Future Work Research

However, the BCA’s expressed concern for ‘the future of bargaining’ contradicts its support for the...

Omnibus IR Bill will Further Reduce Wage Growth

New research by the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work shows the Federal Government’s omnibus...

Migrant Workers Abandoned in the COVID Recovery

COVID continues to sweep Europe and the US, while Australia celebrates near-elimination of community transmission....

Yes, lockdowns mean lost jobs. But data shows that not locking down causes much more economic damage

With new stay-at-home orders covering many parts of the province, Ontarians are settling in for...

Pandemic Exacerbated Inequality, Insecurity in Australia’s Labour Market

A year-end review of the dramatic changes in Australia’s labour market in 2020 has confirmed...

2020 Year-End Labour Market Review: Insecure Work and the Covid-19 Pandemic

December 30, 2020 by Dan Nahum and Jim Stanford EconomicsLaw, Society & Culture Australia’s labour market experienced unprecedented volatility...

IR Bill Will Cut Wages & Accelerate Precarity

The Morrison government has proposed sweeping changes to labour laws that will expand unilateral employer...