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August 2025
Employment & Unemployment, Future of Work, Inequality, Labour Standards & Workers' Rights, Social Security & Welfare, Unions & Collective Bargaining, Wages & Entitlements
Solving the crisis: Raising the living standards of Australian workers
Productivity might be the word on everyone’s lips in the lead up to the Albanese Government’s Economic Reform Roundtable however weak productivity isn’t the cause of many of the problems experience by workers in Australia today nor is increasing productivity the solution. Rapid inflation after the pandemic, combined with rising interest rates and slow wage
March 2025
Education & Training, Gender at Work, Industry & Sector Policies, Macroeconomics, Social Security & Welfare, Tax, Spending & the Budget, Wages & Entitlements
Budget briefing paper 2025-2026
The Centre for Future Work’s research team has analysed the Commonwealth Government’s budget. 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 the