The Productivity Commission warns that a lack of skills and a reliance on legacy systems threatens Australia’s ability to keep pace with developments in technology - and that has far-reaching implications for productivity and economic growth.

Few people have a CV as impressive as Amin Niazai. The 35-year-oldAfghan-born Melburnian is a forest ecology and climate change scientistwith a master's degreeand aPhD from Kyoto University in Japan.

The federal government will be coming in hot with a fresh budget on Tuesday, which means there’s a lot of opinions floating around regarding what should be in there.

When Ritesh Mahato emigrated from India to Australia in 2017 to pursue an engineering career, he was prepared for competition.

Demand for workers remains strong, although the number of job ads is falling away from recent highs.(ABC News: John Gunn)

Most of Australia’s 2.3 million small and medium business owners are desperate for financial help, as costs soar and profits dive. Amid fears of a global recession, owner-operators appeal to the Albanese government for support in its first budget, to be h

According to new research from RMIT University, women’s participation in the Cyber security business is now expanding faster than men’s.

In NSW, which had been in lockdown for six weeks prior to census day, nearly a third of employed people worked from home.Photograph: Loren Elliott/Reuters

The nation's workforce is changing rapidly as Australians study more, some jobs become redundant and an ageing population demands greater care.

There are concerns that casual workers who are not entitled to sick pay will feel pressured to hide symptoms of COVID-19 and continue going to work, now that subsidies for most of them are ending.