There has been a great deal of turnmoil in the Australian labour market over the past 25 years. This paper describes the main features of the changes which have occured over the principal dimensions of the work environment.

There have been rising levels of inequality in the earnings distribution in some OECD countries (principally the English-speaking ones) together with stubbornly higher levels of unemployment in many others. Australia has shared in the rise in earnings inequality, but not to the degree that the...

The article argues that smaller businesses are mostly sidelined from the current debate about corporate governance. As a result they are less scrutinized than their larger corporate counterparts. They are afforded exceptionalist ‘special case’ status and are specially promoted through state...