The typical full-time employee in Australia works 70 minutes of unpaid overtime a day. This equates to 33 eight-hour days per year, or six and a half standard working weeks. Something for nothing - unpaid overtime in Australia examines the nature, extent and consequences of Australia's heavy reliance on unpaid overtime. Across the workforce, the...

Australian households are throwing out more than $5 billion worth of food each year, more than Australians spend on digital equipment, and more than it costs to run the Australian Army. In addition to the direct financial costs of this waste, the environmental impact associated with excessive greenhouse gas emissions and water use is substantial...

An analysis of the Treasury's modelling of emissions from sheep and cattle. Agricultural emissions are a significant source of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions yet they will be excluded from the initial stage of the Rudd Government's proposed CPRS, with a view to incorporating them from 2015. This paper examines Treasury's modelling of the likely impact...

Coal-fired power stations comprise the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Australia, accounting for 36 per cent of total emissions in 2008. Any determined effort to tackle what Prime Minister Rudd has referred to as the 'moral challenge' of climate change would presumably seek to reduce emissions from that source significantly. The proposed Carbon...

Up to a quarter of the retirement savings of some Australian workers are being eroded by excessive fees, according to this study. Fees and commissions on superannuation cost the country more than $14 billion per year. The case for a universal default superannuation fund reveals how a shake-up of the superannuation system could lead to...