Signed by 124 Labour Market, Employment Relations and Labour Law Researchers
For the last several years, Australian wages have experienced an unprecedented slowdown. Nominal wages have been growing at only about 2% per year since 2015. That’s barely half the traditional pace of [...]
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As featured in The Sydney Morning Herald by Matt Wade, the share of total economic output in Australia that is paid to workers (in the form of wages, salaries, and superannuation contributions) has been declining for decades. Workers produce more real output with each hour of labour (thanks [...]
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In 2014, the Australian federal government repealed a national compliance emissions trading scheme (ETS). This was a world first decision to get rid of flagship climate legislation with no replacement at the time. The ETS ran for only two years (2012-14). It has since been replaced by the [...]
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Reaching the end as a state employee I decided to take a trip to the west coast of Tasmania. It’s a region defined by mines, forests and its isolation from the largest settlements during colonisation. And towns established to service industries have been abandoned and deprived of any [...]
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All is not as it seems with the Turnbull government’s proposed changes to higher education funding.
Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham has argued that higher tuition fees, lower direct grants to universities and a reduced HECS repayment threshold for graduates will deliver a [...]
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Unpacking the Private Rental Investment Boom in the UK and Australia
Declining home ownership and an expanding private rental sector have been dominant global trends over the past decade. In Australia, this pattern has seen private rental expand from 21% of all households to 26% in [...]
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More than two years after all three automakers in Australia announced they were closing down their manufacturing activities here, the shutdown of the entire industry is now at hand. That last Australian-made Ford car rolled off the assembly line in Broadmeadows, Victoria last week. Holden [...]
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The census controversies are not over in Australia, but they have certainly cooled down. This is a better time to air a couple of questions that have largely remained outside the central debates revolving around this census round in general, and around the crisis of census day in particular. [...]
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