This year will be the first for some time that official unemployment rates will rise. The overall predictions are that there could be around a million people unemployed in Australia by year's end. The underemployment rate will also rise. At present, around 10 per cent of the available labour...

The Symposium will seek to provide an honest assessment of the impact of the Free Trade Agreement as a platform from which to think about how the trade relationship between Australia, the United States and third party countries in the Asia-Pacific region is likely to evolve over the next few...