30 March 2023
Half Hearted Pension Reforms Fail To Alleviate Worker Shortage Crisis
“The latest job vacancy data confirms the Federal Government’s half-hearted pension reforms are inadequate to fix our unprecedented worker shortage. We need to get serious about fixing this problem once and for all,” said Daniel Wild, Deputy Executive Director at the Institute of Public Affairs. According to data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there are now over
1 December 2022
Pension Reforms Commencing Today Do Not Go Far Enough To Address Australia’s Worker Shortage
“Pension reforms commencing today still punish age pensioners and veterans who want to work and contribute to the community, and do not go far enough to address Australia’s worker shortage crisis,” said Daniel Wild, Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs. Today, the Federal Government’s recently legislated age pension and veteran work bonus reforms commence allowing recipients to
23 August 2022
Australia’s Unprecedented Worker Shortage: Causes And Solutions
Australia is currently facing an unprecedented, country-wide shortage of workers. This is undermining economic output and growth by limiting the ability of businesses to meet their production, and as a result there are flow-on effects on wages and government revenue. Addressing this worker shortage should be a high priority for state and federal governments. Australia’s international borders have been re-opened
23 August 2022
Parliamentary Research Brief To The Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Australia is facing an unprecedented, country- wide shortage of workers, the effect of which is to reduce business investment, economic growth, and productivity, as well as forgone wages and government revenue. Urgent government action is needed to reduce the shortage of workers, with one promising initiative being to encourage more pensioners to re-enter the workforce by reduce the unfair penalty
4 August 2022
Australia’s Worker Shortage See’s $32 Billion In Wages Lost
“Australia is in the middle of an unprecedented worker shortage, and any Australian, particularly pensioners, who want to work, should not face barriers to getting a job,” said Daniel Wild, Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs. New research from the IPA shows Australia’s total worker shortage see $32 billion in wages forgone each year, it also represents
3 August 2022
Age Pensioners Key To Solving Australia’s Labour Crunch
Featured Image Credit: Dean Alston/The West Australian I used to work at a community newspaper where I met some pretty interesting characters. One of the particularly eccentric ones among a group of older workers who came in to fold newspapers on distribution day used to pack up her things at strange times long before her colleagues. She was a pensioner and,
24 February 2022
Australian Notes
Why on earth are we stopping people who want to work from working? I used to work at a community newspaper where I met some pretty interesting characters. One of the particularly eccentric ones, among a group of older workers who came in to fold newspapers on distribution day, used to pack up her things at odd times long before
