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If You Thought Employers Were Exploiting Workers With Too Many Insecure Jobs Before The Pandemic, Wait Till You See The Figures Now

Australia paid a big price for the over reliance on insecure jobs prior to the...

A Review of Lapsis

Writer-director Noah Hutton has shrewdly crafted a science-fiction world that closely resembles our own. The...

Why is Job Quality Worsening?

Over time, insecure work has become more prevalent in the Australian economy. Key drivers of...

Video: Myth & Reality About Technology, Skills & Jobs

We are constantly told that the world of work is being turned upside down by...
Commonwealth can afford $10b for Aged Care recommendations

New research: Commonwealth can afford $10b for Aged Care recommendations

Initial improvements in aged care funding should proceed immediately, even before new revenue measures are...

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...
Women’s casual job surge widens gender pay gap

Casual job surge widens gender pay gap

New research shows Australia’s recovery from the pandemic recession has widened the gender pay gap....

Business Council of Australia research confirms Centre for Future Work research

The Business Council of Australia (BCA) has today released a report which confirms trends described...

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

Migrant workers abandoned in the COVID recovery

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