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Industrial policy-making after COVID-19: manufacturing, innovation and sustainability

As Treasurer during the 1980s, Paul Keating lamented that Australian governments had for decades been allowing the country’s sophisticated industrial

Rebooting Australian aluminium

A new report from the Centre for Future Work highlights the continuing economic importance of Alcan’s aluminium smelter in Portland,

A fair share for Australian manufacturing

New research from the Centre for Future Work reveals that Australia ranks last among all OECD countries for manufacturing self-sufficiency.

Powering onwards: Australia’s opportunity to reinvigorate manufacturing through renewable energy

With disruptions in international supply chains for essential products (like medical equipment and supplies) disrupted in the current COVID pandemic,

The future of transportation work: special series, WA Transport

A special 6-part series of short articles from WA Transport Magazine: Researchers have identified the transportation industry as one of the

Advanced skills for advanced manufacturing

Australia’s manufacturing industry is at a crossroads. After years of decline, the sector has finally found a more stable economic

A portable training entitlement system for the disability support services sector

A new proposal for a portable training system for disability support workers under the NDIS would help to ensure the

From consensus to action: report from the first National Manufacturing Summit

The first National Manufacturing Summit was held at Australian Parliament House, Canberra, in June 2017, organised by the Centre for

The future of transportation work: technology, work organisation, and the quality of jobs

Workers in all parts of the economy are confronting twin threats from accelerating changes in technology and automation, and the

Manufacturing: a moment of opportunity

In conjunction with the National Manufacturing Summit, titled ‘From Opportunity to Action’, at Parliament House in Canberra on June 21