Posts tagged "unemployment"

Uberisation is not an unstoppable force, however, it is fostering the apparent normalisation of all forms of precarious and insecure work.

Coding has brought automation to everything from babysitting to dog walking, and before long it will come for the coders themselves.

Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen will pitch to workers’ discontents when he declares in his first economic speech of the year they are being denied “a fair go”.

About 2,400 of the almost 17,000 new bankruptcies in Australia in 2017-18 were aged 60 or more, with many having few assets and are highly indebted.

Contrary to the apocalyptic predictions of Flight of the Conchords, the humans are not yet dead. These robots are only here to help us out.

Australia may be headed for a robot tax if the government is unable to adequately deal with structural changes to the nature of work.

Employment indicators in Australia are increasing, but there's more to the story that impressive headlines, writes Richard Holden.

By Zoe Staines, Queensland University of Technology

Australia is missing its target to halve the unemployment gap between Indigenous and …

By Erin I. Castellas and Jo Barraket, Swinburne University of Technology

Social enterprises employ twice the rates of Australians with di…

Online electronics retailer Kogan has smashed its forecasts for its 2017 earnings, posting revenue of $289.5 million reports The Australian,…

By Dominic Powell and Emma Koehn 

The Australian Taxation Office has revealed Australia’s suburbs with the highest-earning residents, wi…

By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra

Underemployment among young people is now at its highest in the 40 years since it has been o…