The report offers evidence-based insights into Australia’s evolving workforce. It explores how productivity and participation are shaped by shifting skill demands, technological change and structural barriers, identifying where better alignment between education, migration and workforce planning can deliver stronger, fairer outcomes. The report highlights five recommendations aimed at enhancing individual employment and skills outcomes.

This report includes a final analysis paper that explores how the implications of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) vary across the workforce, including exposure, experiences and perspectives, through cohort and intersectional lenses. The second part of the report provides the technical detail of how the key pieces of analysis were undertaken in the overarching report...

This report – in response to the Australian Productivity Commission’s inquiry Building a skilled and adaptable workforce – finds that while time pressures on teachers need solutions, the Commission's recommendations risk narrowing teachers’ roles to delivering pre-packaged lessons. Teachers overwhelmingly identify administration, compliance and lack of support staff as the biggest barriers to effective teaching.

This report aims to help businesses understand, predict and respond to the complex changes in the labour market unfolding in Australia over 2025–26. It outlines the economic context, labour market dynamics and impacts for employers. The report finds that the labour market has not adjusted in line with the broader economy.

The care economy is a significant part of ‘human services’ which make up most of the non-market sector in Australia. However, labour productivity in the non-market sector has been negative over the past decade. This paper poses that improving productivity, service standards and innovation in the care economy is a key part of improving Australians’...