Mike Berry summarises the housing affordability picture and the forces driving the recent housing boom. He then addresses the policy challenge and looks at the way forward. He stresses that in order to make substantial advances in reducing housing stress related to declining affordability for at-risk groups, the states and Commonwealth must adequately and quickly...

In this report Sara Charlesworth, Philippa Hall and Belinda Probert look at what motivates 'best practice' organisations to take action around equal employment opportunity for women and how they implement, monitor and sustain such 'EEO/diversity action' over time. This project used a case-study approach to provide a series of rich accounts about the introduction, implementation...

Robyn May, Iain Campbell and John Burgess argue that the Coalition government's next round of industrial relations reform will create further opportunities for employers to 'casualise' jobs. This is one of a series of papers analysing the Howard government's proposed changes to Australia's industrial relations laws, written by seventeen academic researchers in the fields of...

In this submission to the Federal Parliamentary inquiry on the work and family life balance, lain Campbell and Sara Charlesworth focus on the second term of reference, relating to measures to assist parents who wish to return to the paid workforce. They trace the changing size and composition of the paid workforce and the changes...

There is growing polarisation in Australian housing markets between those who have attained or will attain home ownership, and those who will spend their housing careers in private rental housing. While this has an obvious equity dimension, it also affects the efficiency of urban and regional housing economies. In the 11th Annual F. Oswald Barnett...