Report
Underpaid and overlooked: the wage crisis facing young workers in Australia
Research into the prevalence of young worker exploitation within the Australian labour force and the ways in which this exploitation may be combatted through the use of digital tools and data science. The report affirms the alarming rate at which young workers are underpaid and makes recommendations to combat young worker exploitation through the use...
Report
Corporate energy transition: legal tools for shifting companies towards clean energy practices
This research recognises that changes in the energy systems to reduce climate risks cannot be achieved by government policy alone. The private sector and corporations, especially large corporate emitters, have an important role to play.
Report
Phoenix activity: recommendations on detection, disruption and enforcement
The aim of this report is to minimise the significant damage that is being done to the Australian economy by harmful phoenix activity without unduly inhibiting legitimate business rescues and beneficial entrepreneurialism.
Report
Misleading the ethical consumer: the regulation of free-range egg labelling
Explains how it is that the regulation of welfare of layer hens is now largely a matter of voluntary labeling for consumer choice rather than mandatory government regulation of animal welfare in production conditions. Summary In mid-2014, Australian consumer affairs ministers announced that they would together set ‘a national, legally enforceable definition of free-range eggs’...
Discussion paper
Reforming Australian federal democracy
This paper argues that the driving motivation for federalism reform in Australia should be to enhance Australian federal democracy, and sets out ten principles to guide federal democratic reform.