The paper groups financial wellbeing responses into two broad categories: 'comfortable' and 'struggling', focusing on the role of housing. It finds that younger Australians have been hit particularly hard, with multiple sources of financial difficulty. The paper proposes that without targeted policy intervention, financial security becomes increasingly dependent on home ownership status and inherited generational...

People who value working from home (WFH) are making a trade-off between their wage and the benefits they see from the arrangement. This paper suggests employers can also make a trade-off: choosing either to accept the cost savings from WFH arrangements or to pay a premium to mandate office attendance.

One-third of Australian occupations face worker shortages. These shortages are increasingly concentrated in jobs driven by global megatrends such as digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), an ageing workforce and the energy transition. This report provides recommendations for both employers and government to help fill these gaps and confront these challenges and opportunities by ramping up...

The authors of this report argue that governments should apply a consistent framework and clearly state their objectives when backing clean energy projects, to ensure support goes to those with the best chance of success.

This report focuses on how to improve the employment outcomes of migrants who are already in the country. It examines the causes of poor labour market outcomes for migrants, in particular language proficiency, poor recognition of qualifications, and discrimination.