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Dignity of Work

The IPA's Dignity of Work Research project is guided by the moral case for work. Providing a sense of purpose, the opportunity of work enables us to build rewarding and fulfilling lives for ourselves and our families. Here you will find the IPA's analysis of employment and workplace relations issues, and ideas to reduce the regulatory barriers to work.

Media Releases

Australia’s Silent Crisis In Male Employment

Gideon Rozner 19 August 2017 Dignity of work, Ipa today,

Australia is experiencing a mass exodus of working-age men from the labour force, according to a landmark report released today by the Institute of Public Affairs. The report The Disappearing...

Research Papers

The Disappearing Australian Working Man

Gideon Rozner 19 August 2017 Dignity of work, Ipa today,

In Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis, American Enterprise Institute fellow Nicholas Eberstadt takes a close look at the rapidly growing cohort of American men who are out of work...

IPA TV

Men Without Work

Gideon Rozner 18 August 2017 Dignity of work, Ipa tv,

The IPA’s Gideon Rozner looks at the mass exodus of working-age men from the labour force.

In The News

Big Government’s War On Young Australians

Peter Gregory 9 August 2017 Dignity of work, Ideas and liberty,

The major parties, unions and the bureaucracy have declared economic war on young people which threatens to create an invisible underclass locked out of economic participation. In March, the...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

Submission: Inquiry Into Penalty Rates

Aaron Lane 18 July 2017 Dignity of work, Publications,

Recent IPA research shows that penalty rates were introduced in order to deter weekend work. Overtime, the justification of penalty rates has shifted to being a compensatory measure. As...

Research Papers

Penalising Work – A Historical Account of Penalty Rates in Australia

Gideon Rozner and Aaron Lane 10 July 2017 Dignity of work, Ipa today,

Penalty rates have been a fixture of Australian industrial relations regimes since the late 1800s. With federation, a series of decisions by various state and federal wage-setting bodies began...

IPA Research Exposes Selfish Union Campaign On Penalty Rates

Evan Mulholland 10 July 2017 Dignity of work, Ipa today,

A new report released today by the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs: Penalising work, a historical account of penalty roles in Australia, examines the history of penalty...

IPA TODAY

New Video: The Dignity Of Work

Gideon Rozner 29 June 2017 Dignity of work, Ipa today,

“Bill Shorten’s announcement on penalty rates – that he only accepts the independence of the Fair Work Commission when it suits him – should give the Turnbull Government the courage to scrap the...

IPA TV

Why We Should Repeal The Fair Work Act

Gideon Rozner 29 June 2017 Dignity of work, Ipa today,

The IPA’s Gideon Rozner explains why the Fair Work Act is one of the most unfair and unbalanced pieces of legislation in Australia’s history.

Research Papers

Fair Work And The Right To Work

Gideon Rozner 26 June 2017 Dignity of work, Ipa today,

The Rudd Government’s 2009 overhaul of Australia’s industrial relations regime represented a substantial reversal of almost two decades of reform. Australia’s trajectory towards decentralised...

Media Releases

The Unfair Work Act

Gideon Rozner 26 June 2017 Dignity of work, Ipa today,

“Fair Work has been a disaster for our economy, for businesses and, importantly, for thousands of Australian workers,” said Gideon Rozner, research fellow at the free market think tank the...

Media Releases

There Should Be No Role For Employers In Employee Super Fund Choice

Brett Hogan 29 March 2017 Dignity of work, Ipa today,

Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the direction of the Productivity Commission’s Draft Report into Alternative Superannuation Default Models but will urge...

Media Releases

FWC Decision Means More Job Opportunities

Aaron Lane 23 February 2017 Dignity of work, Finance and economics,

“It is encouraging that the Fair Work Commission has moved in the right direction to make weekend work more secure,” says Aaron Lane, Legal Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs...

Dignity of Work

Uber Markets

Evan Mulholland Started 1 December 2016 Dignity of work, Government services,

Uber and Airbnb are part of a wider market revolution changing the way the world does business, writes Evan Mulholland. The last few decades have delivered us a monumental shift in how we...

Dignity of Work

Workplace Relations: The Urgent Need For Change

Brett Hogan Started 1 December 2016 Dignity of work,

Australia has a 21st century workforce labouring under a 19th century industrial relations system, writes Brett Hogan. Better health, housing, communications, education and transport options...

Media Releases

Passage Of Registered Organisations Bill Warmly Welcomed

Brett Hogan and Aaron Lane 22 November 2016 Dignity of work, Media releases,

The passage through Parliament of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Bill in the early hours of this morning has been warmly welcomed by free market think tank the Institute of Public...

In The News

Dreamworld AGM Fiasco Is The Sort Of Reason People Hate Corporate Australia

John Roskam 4 November 2016 Dignity of work, Ideas and liberty,

What Ardent Leisure did last week says a lot about Australia’s corporate culture. Two days before its scheduled annual general meeting four people were killed in an accident at Dreamworld, a...

Submission To The Inquiry Into The impact Of The Government’s Workplace Bargaining Policy

Aaron Lane 26 October 2016 Dignity of work, Publications,

Enterprise bargaining requires negotiation from both sides. The government’s policy provides the flexibility for this to occur on the employer side. This is in stark contrast to the public...

Dignity of Work

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