PROGRESS 2050: Toward a prosperous future for all Australians
The Front Project CEO, Jane Hunt, discusses recent research conducted with KPMG that shows enhancing the Child Care Subsidy would support working families and provide an urgently needed boost to the economy.
Jane Hunt is the founding CEO at The Front Project. She has won a number of awards for her work, including the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Award in 2012, granting her an ongoing seat at World Economic Forum events, the Victorian Telstra Business Women’s Award in 2011 and the Melbourne Business 3000 Award for Community Innovation in 2010. Jane is currently a Non-Executive Director of Unison Community Housing and has held senior roles in the for-benefit sector, including CEO of Adopt Change and prior to that the Inaugural Chief Executive Officer of Fitted for Work. Jane was also the Victorian Strategy and Operations Manager for Mission Australia, and has had senior experience across for-benefit, corporate and academic sectors.
Older, bigger, slower growing, more diverse. Living standards at risk of going backwards. These were the key takeaways from the latest Federal Intergenerational Report (IGR), writes Dr Liz Allen. The intergenerational bargain or contract, which implicitly suggests that the country handed to each subsequent generation is the same, if not better, than the socioeconomic conditions enjoyed previously, has been eroded. Increasing or maintaining living standards can no longer be guaranteed. Australia’s dumb luck has run out.
Read more Opinion article August 27, 2020In part two of CEDA's labour market tracking series, Senior Economist Gabriela D'Souza says key employment indicators show that while the Australian labour market has made gains since May, jobs growth now appears to be stalling. She also unpacks the evidence surrounding the influence of gender on the post-COVID employment results and concludes that the situation is more complicated than it first appears.
Read more Opinion article March 18, 2020Ahead of the anticipated announcement of the government's next fiscal package, CEDA Senior Economist, Meg Cuddihy, gives a comprehensive assessment of the sectors and people most in need of government assistance during the COVID-19 economic crisis.
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