This in-depth analysis of the Australian health and medical research workforce in 2024 provides insights into the characteristics, career pathways and challenges. The audit highlights issues with gender disparities in senior roles, job insecurity, and the importance of funding stability and recommends improving data processes to guide future policy.

This report tracks trends in decent work in Australia over time, how the dimensions of decent work have contributed to these trends, and how decent work varies by industry and demographics. The report puts forward a framework for conceptualising decent work.

Unpaid superannuation is a systemic issue costing Australian workers a total of $5.1 billion in a year. Its impact is most keenly felt among the workforce’s more vulnerable groups, exacerbating existing inequities. This report highlights what’s at stake in fixing unpaid super and provides policy detail to ensure that the super owed to Australian workers...

From non-existent jobs and wages to the potential for human trafficking – migrant workers are being exploited under the existing Accredited Employer Work Visa scheme. This review sets out a range of urgent human rights concerns and provides recommendations for improving the scheme.

This report presents findings from a nationally representative survey undertaken in 2023 on gig economy work in Australia. It covers the prevalence of digital platform work in Australia and how it has changed over time, who is participating in digital platform work, the digital platforms currently being used and the type of work being done...