The federal government plans to repeal the Workplace Relations Act either in part or in full, replacing key sections with either new or minimal prescriptions, possibly introducing ancillary legislation to the Act. This chronology, prepared by Stephen O'Neill, Indra Kuruppu and Barbara Harris, provides key dates and links to key documents since the federal election...

Of all the private sector businesses in Australia, 96 per cent are small businesses with fewer than twenty employees and around two in every five private sector workers are employed in a small business. In the eleventh AMP-Natsem Income and Wealth Report, Shih-Foong Chin, Simon Kelly and Ann Harding examine the large, but understated, contribution...

The past fifteen years have seen a rapid growth in private sector firms supporting military operations. More recently, the ADF has employed the private sector to varying degrees in East Timor, Bougainville, Afghanistan and Iraq. This paper puts forward four recommendations on how the ADF could work with the private sector. A summary of the...

This major research project aims to go beyond predictable exhortations for business to 'clean up its act' and embrace sustainable development practices. Suzy Goldsmith and Danny Samson examined leading companies of all sizes across a range of industries to try to better understand the connection between sustainable development and long-term business success. They argue that...

James Juniper, Bill Mitchell and Jennifer Myers examine whether small businesses in Australia has higher rates of job creation than larger firms. They also consider whether so-called 'industrial relations' factors (wages, workers compensation, superannuation, union membership) retards rates of job creation in Australia. They find that larger firms are more dynamic in terms of job...