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Briefing Paper: Restoring public sector capability through investment in public service employees

This briefing paper examines the make-up of the APS and considers recent efforts to improve APS service delivery.

By Lisa Heap

Life Savers Without Life Savings

It is unacceptable that retired firefighters and paramedics should have either significantly reduced living standards or risk running out of

By Jack Thrower

Submission to Industrial Relations Victoria Inquiry on Restricting Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) in Workplace Sexual Harassment Cases

NDAs may protect victims’ privacy but power imbalances coerce signatures, silencing survivors, enabling repeat harassment, and obscuring prevalence; greater transparency

By Lisa Heap, David Peetz

Taking up the Right to Disconnect? Unsatisfactory Working Hours and Unpaid Overtime

This year marks the sixteenth annual Go Home on Time Day (GHOTD), an initiative of the Centre for Future Work

By Fiona Macdonald

Doing it Tough

This report documents the results of a recent survey of Australian adults regarding their experience of the cost of living

By Lisa Heap

An Industrial Strategy for Domestic Manufacturing of Onshore and Offshore Wind Energy Towers and Equipment

Wind energy manufacturing represents a prime opportunity to apply the new policy tools of the federal government’s Future Made in

By Phillip Toner

Leaving Money on the Table: Foregone Economic Gains from Continued SRS Underfunding

Proposed funding for public schools falls short of full needs-based funding, undermining long-term economic, productivity, and fiscal gains that would

By Jim Stanford

No Blood – No Job

With some Australian organisations routinely collecting highly sensitive worker data, clearer consent requirements and worker‑centred legal protections must be provided.

By Lisa Heap

Solid Foundations, Bright Future

NSW’s strong economy masks a hollowed‑out public sector from austerity. More investment is needed, and strong finances allow wages and

By Jack Thrower

Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training Inquiry into the Digital Transformation of Workplaces

AI boosts productivity but risks job quality, privacy, fairness, and wellbeing. Regulations are required to ensure decent, fair work.

By Fiona Macdonald, Lisa Heap

Employee voice and new rights for workplace union delegates

New rights for volunteer union delegates are set to make workplaces more, not less, cooperative, according to a new analysis.

By David Peetz