Legislation
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Report
Report of the Functional and Efficiency Review of the National Archives of Australia
The Federal Attorney-General commissioned this review of the National Archives of Australia to ensure that the institution can undertake its important role to protect, preserve and use Commonwealth information in the digital age.
Report
Report of the Inquiry into anti‑vilification protections
This report recommends that the Victorian government explore options to address online vilification, and makes some additional recommendations to improve Victoria’s anti-vilification laws.
Briefing paper
The Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2021: briefing note
The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated just how damaging job insecurity is, not only to individual workers and their families, but to society as a whole. This briefing paper lays out the Bill’s provisions and Per Capita's arguments against them.
Journal article
Avoiding a ‘Catch 22’—major lessons from a meta-analysis of reports of the parliament of Western Australia on threats to sovereignty by national uniform legislation
National uniform legislation has served as an instrument to attune federalism to new realities and it is critical that when harmonisation is necessary, it is efficient and effective, results in long-lasting uniformity and does not encroach on the sovereignty of the State and Territory Parliaments. This article seeks to provide a systematic objective analysis on...
Briefing paper
How non-union agreements suppress wage growth – and why the Omnibus Bill will lead to more of them
This report illustrates how the Morrison Government's omnibus industrial relations bill will lead to a significant increase in employer-designed enterprise agreements (EA) that reduce workers' pay and conditions, rather than improve them—signalling a return to the WorkChoices pattern of EA-making and putting further downward pressure on Australia's already record-low wages growth.