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Jobs and skills: what now after the summit?
Last week, MPs, business leaders, unions, and economists met at the national Jobs and Skills Summit to discuss the future of the jobs market in Austr…
4 years, 1 month ago
Clean wheels keep on turning: reducing truck air-pollution in urban areas
Trucks. They deliver essential items – especially in the COVID lockdowns – but most of us want them off our local streets. Whether it’s the pollution…
4 years, 1 month ago
How to prevent pork-barrelling in Australian politics
From sports rorts to regional slush funds, there seems to be no end of pork-barrelling scandals , where governments have been caught using public mon…
4 years, 2 months ago
Skills to pay the bills: Migration priorities for the government at the Jobs and Skills Summit
With massive worker shortages across the country, migration is expected to feature heavily in the upcoming Jobs and Skills Summit, which brings toget…
4 years, 2 months ago
Ooh, shiny! Infrastructure projects and the not-so-shiny cost-benefit analyses
Is it worth it? It’s the question that should be asked whenever governments come up with a shiny new infrastructure idea. But too often, major projec…
4 years, 2 months ago
How to respond to surging COVID hospitalisations
The hospital system is at risk of breaking under the pressure of rising COVID cases. Hospitals are understaffed due to thousands of workers in isolat…
4 years, 2 months ago
Putting an end to jobs for mates in Australian politics
Jobs for mates – it’s frustrating when it happens in everyday life. Even more so when it happens at the highest levels of politics. A plum job as Tra…
4 years, 3 months ago
A brief history of superannuation
Earlier in July, Australia’s compulsory superannuation system turned 30 years old. Alongside Medicare – Australia’s universal health insurance schem…
4 years, 3 months ago
How Australia’s industrial sector can flourish in a net-zero world
With the new Albanese government committing to cut carbon emissions by 43% by 2030, along with pressure from newly elected independents and Greens MP…
4 years, 3 months ago
Where to for stamp duty reform now?
“Stamp duty is the worst tax that any government can have,” says Dominic Perrottet, recently quoted in the ABC. But after talking up stamp duty refo…
4 years, 3 months ago