Skip to content

Each year the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) releases a variety of reports that provide an overview of the state of the labour market. One of the most comprehensive, and interesting, of these reports is their annual Australian Jobs report.   Here are my fifteen random extracts from that report:   1.…

Read More

  You probably missed it but earlier in the month  Age Discrimination Commissioner, Susan Ryan    presented the Federal government with a paper calling for an overhaul of state and commonwealth laws to protect older workers against structural discrimination that stops them working past retirement.     The report,  Working Past Our 60s: Reforming Laws…

Read More

Last week Suncorp Bank   released its May 2012 Wages Report. This report is a fascinating analysis of Australian average weekly earnings by industry, gender and state and territory. The data is drawn from official Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports (specifically 6291.0.55.003 – Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Quarterly, Feb 2012 and 6302.0 Average Weekly…

Read More

Last week the ABS released its job vacancy data which gave a picture of what’s changed state-by-state in the past twelve months with respect to what we might loosely called the ‘candidate shortage’, or more specifically the ratio of unemployed job seekers to vacant positions.   Here’s the data, with the comparative period of twelve…

Read More
Scroll To Top