This report outlines core areas of Labor's Fair Work Act (2009) to identify the implications of key changes, particularly for women workers. It provides an analysis of the Act's potential to bring about a shift in the structure of gender relations, or the 'gender order', away from the existing male-breadwinner/part time female-carer model towards a...

This report reviews what is known about community engagement in wind energy industry and identify what we still need to understand. After briefly presenting the relationship between wind farms and society as a significant one, we will recapitulate what strains that relationship and how community engagement can address it. We will point out that divergent...

This report demonstrates the hidden costs of public sector job losses. Key findings: Rapid loss of public sector workers, especially those with more experience and skill, will result in the loss of corporate knowledge and hinder the transfer of skills within the South Australian public service. This loss represents a considerable value which needs to...

Developing countries in Asia are growing steadily--in some cases rapidly--and becoming increasingly affluent. China, India, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Vietnam, and Lao PDR, all of which were classified by the World Bank as 'low-income' countries (LICs) at some point in the late 1990s/early 2000s, have now graduated to 'lower middle income' (LMIC) status. The international consulting...

The massive Olympic Dam mine, now fully approved, threatens by itself to shift the centre of gravity of the future South Australian economy away from its traditional base in manufacturing. A ‘two-speed economy’ is in the early stages of being made. Part and parcel of this new dynamic is the decision by BHP Billiton, Olympic...