The Jobs and Skills Summit will attempt to lay the groundwork for several years of policy development. The unions and the government will both look for co-operation from the other over the long haul.
Senator Penny Wong reflects on her first remarkable year in the job with journalist and author Kerry O’Brien in this instalment of Griffith University’s conversation series, A Better Future for All.
Unlike changes of leader, changes of government are comparatively rare at the Federal level. We can learn a great deal from the early decisions of a new government – what it changes and what it keeps; what lessons it has drawn from prior experience and from its opponents.
The dominant language around great economic transitions of modern times suggests they have been caused by leaps in technological innovation. These normative narratives suggest that it was the leveraging of new technologies that opened the way for the subsequent reshaping of our economies, and our societies. But if we look more closely at the major ‘ages of transition’, it is clear that they didn’t just follow on from purely technological innovation.
Australians have faced higher costs of living in recent months with little relief around the corner. ABC’s Vote Compass shows that 45% of respondents have found it harder to make ends meet relative to a year ago.
A Safer Place In this country, one in four women has experienced violence from an intimate partner. On average, one...
End of an era, the future of work Renowned workers’ rights advocate and ACTU Secretary Sally McManus joined interviewer extraordinaire Kerry O’Brien...
This post is a copy of a response by Dr Tim Cadman, Research Fellow of the Law Futures Centre, to the European Union’s land use, land use change and forestry review of rules.
Dr Tony Matthews says there is building evidence of a mass exodus from commercial office space in the Brisbane CBD and it will have major implications for all cities in a variety of ways.
In making and explaining major policies on the run, it is easy to slip into confusing dichotomies and create perverse...
