The escalating cost of living is your ally when you’re an opposition seeking election, but when you’re in office, it’s a rampaging beast to manage, economically and politically.
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Economic conditions today are very different from those that informed Bob Hawke’s 1983 summit – and that will affect what unions and the government can get from each other at the 2022 summit.
The best way to increase wages is to invest in education and skills.
Australia needs an additional 35,000 aged care workers a year. While skilled migration can play a role, it’s unlikely to be enough to fix the immediate or long-term workforce shortages.
Governments budget in billions. Yet analysis prepared for The Conversation shows they’ve been extraordinarily stingy with pay rises – particularly when it comes to teachers and nurses.
Big business wants a “catch up boost” to permanent migration, with at least two thirds of the places going to skilled workers,
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Professor Paddy Nixon, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University
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Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Principal Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University
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Executive Director, SA Centre for Economic Studies, University of Adelaide
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Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute; Honorary Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
