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Educating for Care

Pandemic Workforce Crisis Requires TAFE Investment in Early Childhood Education to Boost Economy: Report This report from the Carmichael Centre

By Mark Dean, Mark Dean Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow

At the Crossroads

Free Undergraduate Education to Save Universities and Jobs: Report If the federal government lifts annual higher education spending to 1%

By Eliza Littleton

The Economic Benefits of High-Quality Universal Early Child Education

Universal Public Early Child Education in Australia Would Pay For Itself: Research Report Expanded ECEC services would provide a badly-needed

By Matt Grudnoff

Budget Analysis 2022-23

The Commonwealth Government has tabled its budget for the 2022-23 financial year. As the nation emerges from two years of

By Alison Pennington, Dan Nahum, Eliza Littleton, Fiona Macdonald, Greg Jericho, Jim Stanford, Lily Raynes, Mark Dean

Fragmentation & Photo-Ops

New Research: Australia’s Skills System Continues to Crumble After COVID Strong vocational education and training (VET) systems are vital to

By Alison Pennington

Sustainable Industrial Jobs in the Hunter

New research from the Centre for Future Work shows that the rapid transformation of Australia’s aluminium facilities to sustainable sources

By Alia Armistead, Jim Stanford

Rebuilding Vehicle Manufacturing in Australia

Australia ready to become sustainable EV-making powerhouse: new research Global automotive manufacturing is rapidly transitioning to the production of Electric

By Mark Dean, Mark Dean Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow

New International Research Exposes Australia’s Missed Wage-boosting Opportunities

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

By Alison Pennington, Andrew Dettmer, Andrew Scott, Jim Stanford

Putting a Cap on Community

Victorian Rate Cap Policy Costs Economy Over 7,000 jobs and $890 million to GDP The Victorian Government’s policy of capping

By Dan Nahum

International COVID-19 Income Supports: An Update

The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted global labour markets, and exposed long-standing gaps in social protection systems. Governments around the industrialised

By Alison Pennington, Jim Stanford

Working From Home, or Living at Work?

Eight free weeks: Time stolen from employees skyrockets during COVID 2021 marks the thirteenth annual Go Home on Time Day

By Dan Nahum

Ideas Into Motion

Our research at the Centre for Future Work is motivated by a deep commitment to improving the jobs, working conditions,

By Jim Stanford