Robyn May, Iain Campbell and John Burgess argue that the Coalition government's next round of industrial relations reform will create further opportunities for employers to 'casualise' jobs. This is one of a series of papers analysing the Howard government's proposed changes to Australia's industrial relations laws, written by seventeen academic researchers in the fields of...

In this submission to the Federal Parliamentary inquiry on the work and family life balance, lain Campbell and Sara Charlesworth focus on the second term of reference, relating to measures to assist parents who wish to return to the paid workforce. They trace the changing size and composition of the paid workforce and the changes...

Iain Campbell and Sara Charlesworth provide a descriptive overview of key trends in Australian society affecting work and family. Their discussion of key trends affecting work and family is set out in four main sections: paid work and the paid workforce; families, households and caring responsibilities; combining paid work and family caring responsibilities; preferences and...

This report examines Centrelink breaching trends for the past three years and the incidence of Job Network participation reporting. While there has been a relative decline in the rate of Centrelink breaching over the past three years, the submission of Job Network participation reports has continued to increase. Yet the vast majority of these reports...

This is the first report from the project, Counting the Homeless in 2001, a research program focusing on Australia's homeless population at the time of the 2001 Census of Population and Housing. This report presents the main findings from the second national census of homeless school students, and estimates the total number of homeless young...