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On the Brink
The report shows that the number of current enterprise agreements in private Australian businesses has collapsed by 46% since the end of 2013. The number of private sector workers covered…
Indicators of a Sustainable Community: Measuring Quality of Life in Newcastle
This discussion paper is part of the Australia Institute’s work program on measuring quality of life. The Institute has formed a collaborative partnership with Newcastle City Council to build an…
Gas & coal extraction dominates Australia’s rising emissions
…which have run rampant thanks to a 50% increase in diesel fuel use since 2011. “Other industries like agriculture and waste have achieved decreases to their emissions but most significantly…
Why nobody has energy to burn
…their economic acumen should know, the fact you have lots of something doesn’t mean you should waste it, particularly when it is a finite resource. Obviously, the more we use…
Manufacturing: A Moment of Opportunity
In conjunction with the National Manufacturing Summit, titled “From Opportunity to Action,” at Parliament House in Canberra on June 21, 2017, the Centre for Future Work has released a new…
Regional Employment and Greenhouse Policies
A report last year by the Allen Consulting Group has played a pivotal role in reinforcing perceptions that cutting greenhouse gases would result in large economic costs and extensive job…
The Development of Australia's Position on Climate Change and its Implications
Submission Number 6 to The Senate Reference Committee Inquiry into Australia’s Response to Global Warming…
Variable and trustworthy
…solutions such as batteries and energy conservation, saving energy users billions of dollars and leaving no costly radioactive waste behind. Rather than fearing new technologies, Australia should face decarbonisation like…
Tony Abbott's policy muddle was clear to all
…his opponents. The Royal Commission into Trade Unions was designed to waste huge amounts of union member’s time and money while delivering a stream of schadenfreude for Abbott’s friends in…
BCA lost plot on green energy
…help its big business friends. If the Business Council of Australia (BCA) was serious about reducing government waste it would have slammed the recent announcement that taxpayers will fund a…