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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...

Interest Rates and the Federal Election

For the first time in a decade the coming election will be at a time...

Power, Not Just Supply and Demand, Vital to Future Wage Growth

Australia’s unemployment rate declined to 4.2% in December, and it could fall further (below 4%)...

Digging Deeper Into Australia’s Unemployment Rate

Australia’s unemployment rate is poised to hit its lowest level in a half-century, and this...

Australia ready to become sustainable EV-making powerhouse: new research

A unique combination of advantages has handed Australia a historic chance to become a sustainable...

CPI Numbers Don’t Tell the Whole Story

Jericho shows that inflation measurements can very widely for different types of household. Those with...

Of 3’s, and Other Important Labour Market Numbers

Will an unemployment rate with a 3 in front it, ensure that we also get...

Centre for Future Work Announces Two Senior Appointments

Greg Jericho will join the Centre on 1 February as Policy Director: Labour Market and...

Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Labour Market Implications of Australia’s Failed COVID Strategy

As COVID and recession gripped the world, through 2020 and most of 2021 Australia recorded...

Healthy humans drive the economy: we’re now witnessing one of the worst public policy failures in Australia’s history

Australians are getting a stark reminder about how value is actually created in an economy,...

As collective bargaining erodes in Australia, solutions from other countries could strengthen bargaining and lift wages

New research on international collective bargaining systems finds that Australia’s industrial relations system is rapidly...

Victorian Rate Cap Policy Costs Economy Over 7,000 jobs and $890 million to GDP

The Victorian State Government’s policy to cap the rates of local government has cost the...

The great (gendered) resignation is not what you think. It’s worse

The great resignation is apparently upon us — workers are walking away from bad jobs....

Eight free weeks: Time stolen from employees skyrockets during COVID

The number of hours stolen from Australians by employers has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic,...

What Next for Casual Work? Professor Andrew Stewart webinar recording

Casual employment has dominated Australia’s labour market recovery from COVID-19. And the right of employers...

Active Policy Measures Needed to Stop Decline of Journalism

The media and information industries have lost some 60,000 jobs in Australia over the last...

Insecure Workers Have Been the ‘Shock Troops’ of the COVID-19 Pandemic: New Report

New research from the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work confirms that workers in casual...

Fair Pay Agreements: How Workers in NZ Are Getting Their Share

Across the ditch, the Ardern government in New Zealand is undertaking an ambitious and multi-dimensional...

When the Show Cannot Go On: Rebooting Australia’s Arts & Entertainment Sector After COVID-19

New research from the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work reveals the ongoing, devastating impact...

The Broken Bargain: Australia’s Growing Wages Crisis with Sally McManus

In this episode from The Australia Institute’s webinar series, ACTU Secretary Sally McManus outlines the...