Category: Australian workforce

Major Surgery Prescribed to Boost Australia’s Productivity

March 17, 2023
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Boosting productivity in service industries such as education and health will be central to shoring up Australia’s future prosperity. In a major, five-yearly report, the Productivity Commission offers a long list of recommendations to get sluggish productivity growth moving. This includes a future-income-based university funding model and phasing out fuel taxes in favour of a…

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Australian Workplaces at Turning Point for Gender Quality, Report States

March 17, 2023
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Workplace gender equality is improving in Australia but more action is needed to ensure momentum for change keeps growing, a new report has found. A biennial progress report released by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency showed while Australia’s world-leading workplace reporting program had made a difference, progress on equality had stalled over the past two years….

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Let Pensioners and Veterans Shore Up Our Worker Shortage

August 22, 2022
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Commentary The upcoming Jobs and Skills Summit in Australia, to be held on Sept. 1 to 2, must bring immediate reform to address worker shortages crippling Australian businesses. Australia is in the midst of a worker shortage crisis, with almost 500,000 job vacancies across the country. This is holding businesses back as they try to…

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Big Australian Corporations Push for More Skilled Immigrants

February 22, 2022
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The business sector has called on the Australian government to temporarily boost the level of skilled migration to tackle acute labour shortages exacerbated by the loss of workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Business Council of Australia (BCA), an industry association whose members comprise the chief executives of over 100 of the country’s largest corporations, has…

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