What a difference a year makes. Until recently a major preoccupation of employers and policy makers was how to overcome skill shortages flowing from sustained economic growth and an ageing workforce. This year the scourge of unemployment and recession dominates. While we are not yet in a technical recession, recession is upon us. A sharp...

Since 2003 there has been significant effort by the South Australian government to enhance Aboriginal peoples' employment outcomes in the public sector. Objective 6 of the South Australian Strategic Plan has an accompanying target to increase the employment of Aboriginal employees in the public sector from 1.2 per cent to 2 per cent by 2009...

A considerable body of research seeks to map and measure the impact of the creative industries. This is constrained in cities like Adelaide by a narrow conceptualisation of creativity that fails to reveal how diffuse creativity is within the economy and society.

The paper explores the effects of demographic change and population ageing on labour force participation rates and economic growth for South Australia and the nation as a whole.

The primary aim of the Energy Efficiency Program for Low Income Households is to reduce financial hardship faced by low-income households as a result of rising energy costs. The program seeks to achieve its objectives through the delivery of energy efficiency services in collaboration with community based welfare organisations. The results of the evaluation conducted...