Following a series of investigations by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Vice World News, the Horticultural Committee heard testimony from individuals who have spent time working on the farms
Employment
The ABC is in trouble again as it abandons its cultural role to become “fully digital” by 2028. On Thursday last the ABC told a “pretty flabbergasted” political editor Andrew Probyn that he’d been made redundant along with 120 others, 41 of them in news, in a major cost-cutting measure. The purpose: so that the Continue reading »
Mary Davenport (centre right), a former apprentice forced to drop out due to financial struggles, is speaking up about rock-bottom pay
Earlier this year, I wrote on the potential risks of the new Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV) that will provide a lottery-based pathway to permanent residence for nationals of Pacific Islands and Timor Leste. With the visa starting on 1 July 2023, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), which has policy responsibility for the Continue reading »
A TAFE system built around ideas for running 1950s American car-making factories is pretty much an anachronism in Australia in 2023, particularly when our future depends on innovation and rising productivity. But before New TAFE starts, Old TAFE must have a long, hard look at itself. In the New TAFE, people will be able to Continue reading »
Kate Devlin dispels the sudden Science Fiction panic around superintelligence, and looks at the real threats to employment and the environment from AI and machine learning
We could be working 15-hour weeks, enjoying our free time, and living like people of the future. Matt Gallagher asks: Why aren't we?
Don’t believe anyone – not even a governor of the Reserve Bank – trying to tell you the Fair Work Commission’s decision to increase minimum award wages by 5.75 per cent is anything other than good news for the lowest-paid quarter of wage earners. Because they are so low-paid, and mainly part-time, these people account Continue reading »
“It is a trope of twentieth and twenty-first century-life that governments faced with financial shortfalls look first to the services they provide their citizens when making cuts. Instances like these …
The post Politicians’ fine-sounding pledges offer little more than a deceitful illusion when sound finances dictate the strategy appeared first on The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies.
Thoughts about full employment Ellis Winningham The commentary below has been extracted from a Facebook posting by Ellis Winningham which appeared on 19 March 2023.…
The post Thoughts about full employment first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.