Iain Campbell and Sara Charlesworth provide a descriptive overview of key trends in Australian society affecting work and family. Their discussion of key trends affecting work and family is set out in four main sections: paid work and the paid workforce; families, households and caring responsibilities; combining paid work and family caring responsibilities; preferences and...

Barbara Pocock, John Buchanan and Iain Campbell examine policy options to contain the expansion of casual work in Australia. The first part of the paper briefly summarises the evidence on casual work and why it is a problem in Australia. The second part looks at some of the factors that have facilitated its growth. The...