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Open Letter to Google Read full text version of the Open Letter to Google below, along with response from a Google spokesperson.Open letter text as published on 20 August 2020 in The Sydney Morning Herald, in full:An Open Letter to Google --As a nation we welcomed you into our lives and have made you our home base on the internet. Your search engine was so good that it became a verb, we no longer search the web, we ‘google it.’ But with success comes respon... Read More
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Trans Tarkine Track clips Over the summer, we have been busy recording what Tasmanians think about a whole range of issues. Tassie is cool and tourism is hot - with our state having the largest rise in visitor numbers this quarter. Whilst some in the South and East are worried about over crowding and under funding of infrastructure, the North West of the state would love more of the tourism dollar to make its way up there. Here we asked businesses in the North West wh... Read More
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Australia's Upside-Down Labour Market Workers produce more, but get paid less. Business invests less in real capital, but their profits grow. Technology advances at breakneck pace, but so many jobs are degraded and menial (not to mention horribly paid). What gives? Australia's labour market truly seems "upside down." In this article reprinted from Western Teacher magazine (published by the State School Teachers' Union of WA), our Director Jim Stanford tries to... Read More
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Rebuilding Vocational Training in Australia Australia's manufacturing sector has been experiencing an important and welcome rebound during the last two years. The turnaround has been documented and analysed in previous Centre for Future Work research (including studies published in 2017 and 2018 as part of the National Manufacturing Summit, co-sponsored by the Centre). Ironically, the manufacturing recovery could be short-circuited by looming shortages of appropriately skilled workers.... Read More
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New Video: Australia Needs a Pay Rise! Jim Stanford, Director of the Centre for Future Work, was recently featured in a new video produced in collaboration with United Voice and the Flip production company.The video highlights the problems of wage stagnation in Australia’s economy, and the need to “Change the Rules” – including proposals for sector-wide collective bargaining practices, especially important in low-wage sectors such as early child education. The video has great graphics... Read More
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Workers’ Share of Economic Pie Shrinks Again For the third consecutive quarter, the share of Australian GDP paid out in wages, salaries and superannuation contributions to workers has shrunk. Data for the September quarter of 2018, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday, shows that labour compensation accounted for just 46.85% of total economic output – one of the lowest on record.That represents the third consecutive quarterly decline in relative labour compensa... Read More
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New Book: The Wages Crisis in Australia THE WAGES CRISIS IN AUSTRALIA:WHAT IT IS AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT ITEdited by Andrew Stewart, Jim Stanford, and Tess Hardy (University of Adelaide Press)Australian wage growth has decelerated in recent years to the slowest sustained pace since the 1930s. Nominal wages have grown very slowly since 2012; average real wages (after adjusting for inflation) have not grown at all. The resulting slowdown in personal incomes has contributed to weak consumer... Read More
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An Open Letter to the Western Australian Government calling for permanent ban on fracking PDF of Open Letter can be downloaded in full here. Full text of open letter and list of signatories below.Dear Premier and Ministers of the Government of Western Australia -- Unconventional oil and gas development in Western Australia should not go ahead under any circumstances. The consequences of global warming are already extremely serious; including loss of human life, extreme weather, destruction of natural ecosystems and property damage. We... Read More
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Possibly Surprising Insights on the Future of Work Trade unionists are gathering this week at the ACTU's triennial Congress in Brisbane. Jim Stanford, Director of the Centre for Future Work, participated in a panel on the Future of Work (an apt title!) at the Congress.His presentation was "5 Possibly Surprising Insights on the Future of Work".More detail on the issues raised in his presentation is provided in the Centre's recent submission to the Senate Inquiry on the Future of Work and the... Read More
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Cutting through the Company Tax Cuts Guff Below you will find all research papers on company tax cuts produced by The Australia Institute to date [updated 25.06.18] The big four banks get an extra $7.4 billion dollars: Australia’s big four banks are some of the most profitable banks in the world and are the big winners here, getting an extra $7.4 billion dollars in the first 10 years of the tax cuts when they’re already making record profits. By the 2025–26 finan... Read More