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Report
2016 Indigenous engagement survey: summary report
Indigenous employment has grown by 30% among Business Council member companies since 2014, this report shows.
Literature review
Social and economic impacts of housing tenure
This literature review describes the social and economic associations of various forms of housing tenure, mainly homeownership and renting and analyses over a hundred and twenty international studies, focusing on the effects of housing tenure on health, employment, crime, welfare, wealth and education. The objective of the review was to explore the research evidence through...
Working paper
Exploring online and offline informal work: findings from the Enterprising and Informal Work Activities (EIWA) survey
The growing prevalence of alternative work arrangements has accelerated with the rapidly evolving digital platform transformations in local and global markets (Kenny and Zysman, 2015 and 2016). Although traditional (offline) informal paid work has always been a part of the labor sector (BLS-Contingent Worker Survey, 2005; GAO, 2015 and Katz and Krueger, 2016), the rise...
Article
Is the 'great Aussie holiday' disappearing?
Short commentary article summarizing findings and policy implications of a research paper on threats to access to, and utilisation of, paid holiday leave in Australian employment. Written by Troy Henderson and Jim Stanford, and published by the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute.
Strategy
Draft west district plan: co-creating a Greater Sydney
This draft District Plan sets out aspirations and proposals for Greater Sydney’s West District, which includes the Blue Mountains, Penrith and Hawkesbury local government areas. It has been developed by the Greater Sydney Commission.