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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...

New Research: Commonwealth Can Afford $10b for Aged Care Recommendations

Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety will require...

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...

Call for Applications: Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Fellow

We have launched a search for the first Carmichael Fellow. Please see the below call...

New Research Centre Established to Honour Union Leader Laurie Carmichael

A new research centre dedicated to the legacy of one of Australia’s greatest union leaders...

Profile: Combining Economics and Social Justice

We are pleased to reprint (download below), with kind permission from In the Black, this...

Porter IR Bill a Wish List for Business

Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter tabled an omnibus bill on 9 December containing multiple amendments...

A Women’s Agenda for COVID-Era Reconstruction

Women have been uniquely and disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting recession: losing...

Australian Workplaces Unprepared for Rising Heat Stress in Light of Climate Change

Last Summer’s devastating Black Summer bushfires exposed the under-preparedness of Australian workplaces to the serious...

Unpaid Overtime Rife, Despite Shift to “Work from Home”

New research has revealed that almost three-quarters of Australians “working from home” are doing at...