Tag Archives: Australia

Book Launch: Regulation Theory and Australian Capitalism

Please join Brett Heino, together with Joellen Riley Munton and Eugene-Schofield Georgeson, for the launch of the paperback version of his book Regulation Theory and Australian Capitalism: Rethinking Social Justice and Labour Law. WHEN 3 September, 20195:30 pm – 7:00 pm Registrations & Networking from 5:30pm, Book Launch from 6pm WHERE UTS Faculty of Law Boardroom…

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Open Letter on the Benefits of Promoting Faster Wage Growth

Signed by 124 Labour Market, Employment Relations and Labour Law Researchers For the last several years, Australian wages have experienced an unprecedented slowdown. Nominal wages have been growing at only about 2% per year since 2015. That’s barely half the traditional pace of growth experienced over the preceding 50 years – and the slowest sustained…

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Symposium on private rental sector in the UK and Australia

Unpacking the Private Rental Investment Boom in the UK and Australia Declining home ownership and an expanding private rental sector have been dominant global trends over the past decade. In Australia, this pattern has seen private rental expand from 21% of all households to 26% in the ten years to 2013/14. Albeit from a lower…

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Elizabeth Humphrys, ‘Australia under the Accord (1983-1996)’

[jumbotron heading=”Elizabeth Humphrys (University of Technology Sydney), ‘Australia under the Accord (1983-1996): Simultaneously Deepening Corporatism and Advancing Neoliberalism’”] This is the fifth seminar in the Semester 1 series of 2016 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Date and Location: Note the time change! 5 May 2016, Darlington Centre Boardroom, 4:30pm – 6.00pm…

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Mike Beggs, ‘Inflation and the Making of Macroeconomic Policy in Australia’

[jumbotron heading=”Mike Beggs (University of Sydney), ‘Inflation and the Making of Macroeconomic Policy in Australia’”] This is the fifth seminar in the Semester 2 series of 2015 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Date and Location: 8 October 2015, Darlington Centre Boardroom, 4:00pm – 5.30pm All welcome! [/jumbotron]

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