A new publication from Tom Barnes. Available here. Precarious work research has increasingly understood that precarity is not limited to poor job quality. However, this idea has received insufficient attention among older workers whose careers have been erased by retrenchment. The sense in which retrenched workers’ lives are co-determined by the residual effects of previous … More Pathways to precarity: Work, financial insecurity and wage dependency among Australia’s retrenched auto workers

The NSW Local Government Housing Kit is designed to help councils and their staff develop their vision for housing going forward. It also aims to support them to meet planning challenges and improve the housing situation. You can view the kit and read more about it here.    

Mount Gambier based project PhD student Jessica Porter was interviewed for The Border Watch newspaper (9 July 2019, page 7). Click here to read the article!

On Thursday 11 July 2019, project PhD student Jessica Porter competed in the UniSA Business School 3MT Competition. Her presentation entitled ‘Homeless in the bush’ was confident, succinct and very interesting and we’re pleased to report that she won the event and will progress through to the University’s Grand Final in late August. Jess also … More Three Minute Thesis

Sunshine Coast council is tackling housing issues by setting innovative and sustainable strategic directions to ensure a healthy and liveable environment to 2041. Read more about the strategy here. This council has also created its own Sunshine Coast Housing Benchmark which provides a snapshot of housing provision within the Local Government Area. It will be used as … More Regional council tackles housing issues by setting innovative and sustainable strategic directions