More than 2,000 Indigenous employees have been hired and more than 700 Indigenous traineeships created through Business Council of Australia member company efforts in the past 12 months, efforts which are now impacting across diverse parts of the economy. The results are included in the Business Council’s 2012 Indigenous Engagement Survey, launched today by President...

Current government policy strongly advocates that young people finish Year 12, then move from school to further training and/or to paid employment. To combat high youth unemployment and poor outcomes for those with lower levels of education, the Australian government introduced the Learn or Earn program. Under Learn or Earn, young people who have not...

Young Australians overwhelmingly believe the biggest issue facing the nation is the economy, with many feeling they need to find work to help pay for household bills, according to Mission Australia’s national Youth Survey, the country’s biggest annual poll of young people.

This survey-based Australian study contributes to the small contemporary literature on the problems that people with a hearing loss face in the labour force and some solutions to them. It focuses not only on barriers to labour force participation and success, but also on the things that help people with a hearing loss to overcome...

This publication contains indexes measuring changes in the price of wages and salaries in the Australian labour market. Australia/Sector (trend) In the September quarter 2012, the Public sector, Private sector and All sectors wage price indexes rose 0.9%. The Public sector rise of 3.3% through the year to the September quarter 2012 was below that...