Australia's workforce has undergone unprecedented levels of change over the past 25 years. One of the most significant changes is the growing use of flexible work arrangements, such as labour hire, by businesses seeking to achieve higher levels of flexibility and productivity. This report builds on the work undertaken by the committee in its Interim...

This report presents statistics on trends in the employment of nurses and midwives in Australia. Information presented in the report includes a national overview of the number and characteristics of nurses, their geographic region and the overall supply of nurses. Also included is a profile for each state and territory showing information such as nurses'...

With control of the Senate, the Coalition government will move further down the path of labour market deregulation. Further changes will cater to the interests of employers, with special attention to small business owners, while hastening the demise of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission and imposing additional fetters on trade union activity. Yet, says Josh...

The Transitions and Risk: New Directions in Social Policy conference considered how the idea of transitional labour markets can be applied to the Australian situation in which lifecourse choices are made as people move from education to work, between employment and caring, between different labour market situations and from employment to retirement. Over 25 of...

This is the background paper by Stephen Ziguras, Mark Considine, Linda Hancock and Brian Howe for this week's conference, From Risk to Opportunity: Labour Markets in Transition, which is part of a project exploring new institutional arrangements in the area of social policy to cope with structural change in both labour markets and household formation...