Within the next three years to June 2025, an additional 128,000 workers will be needed to fully meet demand. This issues paper examines the efforts needed to improve worker attraction and retention in the NDIS.

This briefing reviews the main features of the Commonwealth Budget 2023-24 from the perspective of workers and labour markets.

As the gap between rich and poor in Australia widens, multi-generational disadvantage becomes entrenched. This corrodes the very foundations of liberal democracy, and threatens the capacity of government to provide equality of opportunity. This paper presents a liberal perspective of Australia’s productivity slowdown that recognises productivity growth is dependent also on equality of opportunity.

In this briefing paper, Centre for Future Work Associate, Dr Anis Chowdhury, catalogues the assumptions and failures of conventional inflation targeting policy, and the misleading nature of so-called ‘independent’ central banks. He argues the review panel missed an historic opportunity to reconsider those assumptions, and help craft a more balanced and democratic macroeconomic policy framework.

Renewable energy industrial precincts are a practical solution to scale up and accelerate climate solutions in carbon-intensive industries. The right standardising regulations, incentives and policies would offer industry the chance to capitalise on Australia’s abundant clean energy sources as global markets shift towards decarbonisation.