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July 2021

Creativity in Crisis: Rebooting Australia’s Arts and Entertainment Sector After COVID

July 26, 2021 by Ben Eltham and Alison Pennington

Culture is an inescapable part of what it means to be human. We can no more imagine a life without the arts than we can imagine a life without language, custom, or ritual. Australia is home to the oldest continuing cultural traditions on the planet, and some of the world’s most renowned actors, musicians and

March 2021

Employment & Workers' Rights, Gender at Work, Identity & Freedom from Discrimination

Briefing Paper: Women’s Casual Job Surge Widens Gender Pay Gap

March 8, 2021 by Alison Pennington

This briefing note presents data on the gendered composition of the employment recovery since May. It shows women’s jobs returned on a more part-time and casualised basis than for men, and that the influx of women’s lower-earning jobs widened the gender pay gap between May and November 2020. While women were more likely to lose