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Books & arts
A kind of social architecture
Frances Flanagan
5 November 2024
The case for valuing and protecting “connective labour” in an increasingly automated and disconnected world
Essays & reportage
Professionalism meets freedom in academia
Katy Barnett
18 June 2024
When the personal shouldn’t be the political
Working life
Back to the office: a solution in search of a problem
John Quiggin
23 February 2024
Managers need to recognise that the best way to dissipate authority is to fail in its exercise
National affairs
Is migration heading “back to normal”?
Peter Mares
16 December 2023
The government has outlined its vision for skilled migration but it still has lots of colouring in to do
Books & arts
Stolen moments
Linda Jaivin
21 November 2023
Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers struggles for intimacy
Books & arts
How should we live?
Holly High
18 October 2023
There’s more than one way forward for harried households
Books & arts
Machine questions
Julian Thomas
3 October 2023
What does history tell us about automation’s impact on jobs and inequality?
National affairs
The unemployment opportunity
Jeff Borland
11 July 2023
We have a chance to keep joblessness at a historical low, argues a leading labour economist — and that also means measuring it differently
Books & arts
Daily humiliations
Jane Goodall
23 June 2023
Utopia
darkens, but Barack Obama takes a sunnier view of what we do all day
National affairs
Skill up or sink
Peter Mares
28 April 2023
Labor has taken bold steps towards recasting Australia’s migration system, but difficult questions remain
Books & arts
On not burning out
Frances Flanagan
16 February 2023
Is the workplace malaise bigger than two organisational psychologists believe?
Books & arts
Quo vadis, doctor?
Jacinta Halloran
21 October 2022
Is technology endangering the doctor–patient relationship?
National affairs
The curious case of the missing election issue
John Edwards
13 December 2021
An urgent economic challenge will scarcely get a mention when Labor and the Coalition go head to head
From the archive
Coffee first, then care
Diana Bagnall
8 October 2021
Buurtzorg provides more humane care for elderly people at a lower cost. So what’s stopping it from being adopted in Australia?
From the archive
New tricks
Nick Haslam
30 July 2021
We might not be able to change who we are, but we can certainly change what we do
National affairs
Bylines and bygones
Margaret Simons
16 July 2021
No longer “crazy universities,” newsrooms are slowly adapting to a more challenging environment
Essays & reportage
Bitter harvest
Hamish McDonald
28 May 2021
The pandemic has increased the bargaining power of seasonal workers in rural Australia. But how long will that last?
National affairs
Come in spinner
Judith Ireland
28 May 2021
Announcing five inquiries in response to Brittany Higgins’s allegations was the easy bit. Now the government is trying to manage their impact
Books & arts
Server servitude
Brett Evans
9 April 2021
Books
| Our brains weren’t designed for 126 emails a day
National affairs
Fully, partly, in principle — or not at all?
Judith Ireland
8 April 2021
Has the government missed another opportunity to genuinely tackle sexual harassment?
National affairs
A place of greater safety
Jane Goodall
16 March 2021
Does the media’s stress on “rage” really capture what’s driving the resurgent women’s movement?
National affairs
Build back fairer
Danielle Wood, Kate Griffiths and Tom Crowley
8 March 2021
For many women, “Covid normal” isn’t working
International
“Yes, I know we disobey orders. But what else can I do?”
Antonio Castillo
1 March 2021
Informal workers in Latin America search for ways to survive during the pandemic
National affairs
Dealing with toxic parliaments
Marian Sawer
1 March 2021
Can Australia learn from how legislatures in other countries are tackling the problem?
Books & arts
Foiled expectations
Kerrie Davies
12 February 2021
Books
| Despite the discouraging news reaching London, hundreds of women ventured from Britain to the colonies in search of work
National affairs
How casual became predictable
David Peetz
17 December 2020
Casual employment can be fixed, but not the way the government wants to do it
Books & arts
Is it the end of the office as we know it?
Pilita Clark
30 November 2020
Books
| Or are reports of its demise premature?
Essays & reportage
Can we make work work?
Andrew Leigh
27 November 2020
Books
| Are myths about jobs stopping us from seeing our working lives clearly?
National affairs
Out of the office
Andrew Leigh
20 October 2020
Covid-19 could change how we work, for the better and — if we’re not careful — the worse
Essays & reportage
The end of the city? No, not quite
Sarah Barns
16 September 2020
All of a sudden, proximity to the city may no longer be a critical driver of innovation and job creation
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