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Gender Equality
August 18, 2025

A Home of One’s Own: Philanthropic and social sector solutions for women’s housing

Australia is experiencing a housing crisis, and its impact is highly gendered.
Work and Workers
December 19, 2022

Submission to the Workforce Australia Inquiry: Pre-Employment Programs and ParentsNext

This submission focuses on pre-employment programs, and specifically examines the role of ParentsNext in providing early intervention services to disadvantaged parents as part of the employment services system.
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December 15, 2022

Full Employment in 21st Century Australia: a lode star policy in an age of uncertainty

A submission to the Employment White Paper Consultation
Insights
November 29, 2022

Progressive Summer Reading List 2022

  It’s time for the annual Per Capita Progressive Summer Reading List! Here are our top 10 books from this year to keep you entertained over the summer or find their way under the Christmas tree. And you have a chance to win them all! To go into the draw to win all 10 books ... Read more
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November 21, 2022

Evidence Based Policy Project 2022

The Evidence Based Policy project highlights how policy design frequently fails to incorporate the best available evidence, or policy development practices.
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November 11, 2022

Submission to the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill

Per Capita has considered the Bill and is supportive of its aims. Our submission focusses on supported bargaining, single interest employer authorisations and cooperative workplaces. It also addresses some recent criticisms of the Bill.
Homepage Feature
September 30, 2022

Submission to the Senate Select Committee Inquiry into Work and Care

Consideration of how we might better balance the demands of paid labour with the needs of our families and loved ones is fundamental to creating a more equitable and just society.
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September 13, 2022

Submission to the FWA (Equal Pay For Equal Work) Bill

Per Capita has considered the EPEW Bill and finds its scope woefully inadequate to address the problem it seeks to tackle: to ‘stop the exploitation and limit the use of labour hire contracts by removing the incentive for employers to do so, which is lower wages’.
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September 13, 2022

Upskilling and Expanding the Australian Cyber Security Workforce

Australia is experiencing a critical skills shortage across the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector, but the most significant skills shortage appears to be in the increasingly important Cyber Security sector.
Work and Workers
August 30, 2022

Submission to the Inquiry into Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave

Per Capita has considered the Bill and is supportive of its aims.
Work and Workers
August 24, 2022

A Blueprint for Better, Cleaner Jobs

The political, ecological and economic challenge of decarbonising Australia’s energy and industrial base is crying out for leadership. The next five to ten years are crucial to ensure that the worst outcomes of the climate crisis are mitigated, and we have a unique opportunity to reframe our economy in the interests of the people who work within it.
Work and Workers
June 29, 2022

Contracting Care: The rise and risks of digital contractor work in the NDIS

This report examines the implications of digital contractor marketplaces on NDIS participants, NDIS workers and the market for care and support as a whole.
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May 15, 2022

The Way In – Representation in the 46th Australian Parliament

This report explores the path to parliament taken by our current representative members of federal parliament, and considers a wide variety of identity, vocational and experiential factors, building on the previous Per Capita report looking at the 45th Federal Parliament, and published in 2019.