Stewart Firth argues that while Australia's policies towards the Pacific are generally on the right track, we need to rethink our aid program and consider new initiatives, including seasonal work programs for unskilled islanders.

In this paper from the Transitions and Risk: New Directions in Social Policy conference, Megan O'Connell explores the role of training interventions in preventing the labour market exclusion of older workers. She examines the Finnish work-ability project, Swedish individual learning accounts and British skills shortages strategy to highlight the types of interventions that could be...

The Transitions and Risk: New Directions in Social Policy conference considered how the idea of transitional labour markets can be applied to the Australian situation in which lifecourse choices are made as people move from education to work, between employment and caring, between different labour market situations and from employment to retirement. Over 25 of...

This is the background paper by Stephen Ziguras, Mark Considine, Linda Hancock and Brian Howe for this week's conference, From Risk to Opportunity: Labour Markets in Transition, which is part of a project exploring new institutional arrangements in the area of social policy to cope with structural change in both labour markets and household formation...

The Committee for Economic Development Australia has published this collection of papers from the From Risk to Opportunity: Labour Markets in Transition project based in the CPP. This report includes the following papers: A New Social Settlement: Reshaping Australian social policy in the changing areas of work, family and welfare; Transitions between employment, caring and...