Research Topic: COVID-19

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Industrial Policy-Making After COVID-19: Manufacturing, Innovation and Sustainability

As Treasurer during the 1980s, Paul Keating lamented that Australian governments had for decades been allowing the country’s sophisticated industrial

International COVID-19 Income Supports: An Update

The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted global labour markets, and exposed long-standing gaps in social protection systems. Governments around the industrialised

Log of Extraordinary IR Measures During COVID-19 Shutdowns

COVID-19 containment measures have suspended large sections of the economy. Governments have committed over $220 billion in income supports to

Post-COVID-19 policy responses to climate change: beyond capitalism?

A sustainable social, political and environmental response to the “twin crises” of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change will require

Shock Troops of the Pandemic

Insecure Workers Have Been the ‘Shock Troops’ of the COVID-19 Pandemic: New Report New research confirms that workers in casual

The Choices We Make

New research by the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work analyses the economic effects of COVID-19 on Tasmania, and suggests

The Same Mistake Twice

Public Sector Pay Freezes Could Push Economy From Recession to Depression New research from the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future

Work and Life in a Pandemic

Unpaid Overtime Rife, Despite Shift to “Work from Home” 2020 marks the twelfth annual Go Home on Time Day, an

Working From Home: Opportunities and Risks

With many regular workplaces shut down to ‘flatten the curve’ of COVID-19, millions of Australians are now shifting their work

Working With COVID: Insecure Jobs, Sick Pay, and Public Health

One in Five Worked with COVID Symptoms; Sick Leave Entitlements Must Be Strengthened Almost one in five Australians (and a