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Australia dumps its care crisis on the Pacific – new report

Skilled health workers from Pacific Island countries are being poached to plug Australia’s shortage of care workers, leaving the health systems in their home countries on the brink of collapse, according to new research.
A report by the Centre for Future Work at The Australia Institute and Public…

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December 10, 2025

Go Home On Time Day 2025. As full timers disconnect, part timers are doing more unpaid overtime

New research by the Centre for Future Work at The Australia Institute has revealed a disturbing new twist when it comes to unpaid overtime in Australia.
The research has been released today to mark Go Home On Time Day 2025, an initiative by the Centre for Future Work, now into its 17th year.
It i…

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November 19, 2025
Opinions
David Peetz

Want to lift workers’ productivity? Let’s start with their bosses

Originally published in The New Daily on August 18, 2025
Business representatives sit down today with government and others to talk about productivity. Who, according to those business representatives, will need to change the way they do things?
The elephant in the room is that it is business tha…

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August 19, 2025

Feeling hopeless? You’re not alone. The untold story behind Australia’s plummeting standard of living

A new report on Australia’s standard of living has found that low real wages, underfunded public services and skyrocketing prices have left many families experiencing hardship and hopelessness.
But the report, Solving the Crisis – Raising Living Standards of Australian Workers, also concludes tha…

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August 13, 2025
Media Releases
Future Admin

A smooth move or a tough transition? Protecting workers who’ll lose their jobs when the Eraring Power Station closes

The Centre for Future Work at The Australia Institute has urged the federal government to take charge of transitioning hundreds of workers into secure employment when the Eraring Power Station shuts down.
The power station is scheduled to close by August 2027. More than 1000 workers will be direc…

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August 1, 2025
Media Releases
Jim Stanford

Australia does not have a “productivity crisis” – new research

New research by The Australia Institute reveals there is little evidence of a “productivity crisis” in Australia, despite claims to the contrary from business leaders and politicians.
Like the rest of the world, productivity has been sluggish since the COVID pandemic, but that is largely due to b…

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July 28, 2025
Opinions
Charlie Joyce

Dutton’s nuclear push will cost renewable jobs

As Australia’s federal election campaign has finally begun, opposition leader Peter Dutton’s proposal to spend hundreds of billions in public money to build seven nuclear power plants across the country has been carefully scrutinized. The technological unfeasibility, staggering cost, and scant de…

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April 15, 2025
Media Releases
Future Admin

The continuing irrelevance of minimum wages to future inflation

Minimum and award wages should grow by 5 to 9 per cent this year
Updated analysis by the Centre for Future Work at The Australia Institute reveals that a fair and appropriate increase to the minimum wage, and accompanying increases to award rates, would not have a significant effect on inflation….

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April 4, 2025

Commonwealth Budget 2025-2026: Our analysis

As expected with a Federal election looming, the budget is not a horror one of austerity. However, the 2025-2026 budget is characterised by the absence of any significant initiatives. There is very little in this budget that is new, other than some surprise tax cuts, which are welcome given they mostly benefit people on low…

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March 26, 2025
Opinions
Greg Jericho

Chalmers is right, the RBA has smashed the economy

In recent weeks the Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been criticised by the opposition and some conservative economists for pointing out that the 13 interest rate increases have slowed Australia’s economy. But the data shows he is right. Last year the government announced it was considering removing its statutory power to overrule the Reserve Bank. Thankfully…

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September 11, 2024
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