Balancing work and family responsibilities is an increasingly significant concern not only for individual employees, their families and the broader community, but also for government and local communities. However little attention has been paid to the different ways in which constraints and opportunities for work and family balance operate across industry in regional and rural...

This report uses data from a range of sources, including the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), the Office of the Employment Advocate (OEA), the Office of the Workplace Rights Advocate (WRA), private surveys, media and web reports, to analyse the experience to date under WorkChoices.

Scott Bennett gives an overview of Australian federalism, noting its strengths and weaknesses, and asks: where does the system go from here?

The present WorkChoices legislation marks a radical departure in scope and philosophy from the past. This lecture by Joe Isaac reviews the new legislation in the context of the history of industrial regulation in Australia and the requirements of an economically efficient and socially fair industrial relations system. The Australian industrial relations system, based on...

This research note updates the details of federal government expenditure provided in June 2004. The controversy over the Howard government's WorkChoices advertising campaign is also outlined, and the findings of the Senate inquiry into government advertising.