Editorial

10/13/2026

Public Holidays in Australia 2027: Official Dates and Long Weekends

Australia's 2027 public holiday calendar has a catch. On paper the national list looks thin: Anzac Day falls on a Sunday, and Christmas Day and Boxing Day land on a Saturday and Sunday respectively. But the national list is only the starting ...

10/05/2026

6 min

Half of Australian workers overqualified for their jobs, HILDA finds

Almost half of Australia's working-age population is overqualified for the job they hold right now. According to the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, 49.5% of workers aged 18 to 64 were overeducated for their ...

08/19/2026

7 min

ABS Wage Price Index: 79% of Australian jobs below 4% rise as FWC review looms

If your last pay review landed somewhere in the 3% range, you are squarely in the Australian mainstream. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Wage Price Index (WPI) for the June 2026 quarter shows annual wage growth settling at 3.2%, with ...

08/13/2026

9 min

Full-time WFH loses ground to hybrid, new research finds

Australia's big banks have started converting office attendance into a pay formula, and the maths is straightforward: show up less, take home less. ANZ has told staff that dropping below 40% office attendance could cut up to half their variable ...

08/13/2026

6 min

Female-dominated Australian jobs most exposed to AI risk

Around 1.4 million women in Australia work in clerical and administrative roles, and the vacancy data for June 2026 confirms what the exposure modelling had been flagging for months: displacement is already underway. Jobs and Skills Australia ...

08/13/2026

6 min

Productivity Commission data frames EY's 44,000 AU jobs forecast for 2036

New modelling from EY-Parthenon puts a concrete number on what AI will do to Australian employment over the next decade: somewhere between 36,000 and 44,000 additional full-time jobs by 2036. The headline is net positive. The reality sitting ...

08/10/2026

7 min

What 432,300 bridging-visa workers should do this month

A record 432,300 people are currently in Australia on a bridging visa, and in late July 2026 Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke quietly rewired the queue they are standing in. A new ministerial direction tells Department of Home Affairs case ...

08/03/2026

6 min

ABS job mobility at 7.2%: the hidden cost for Australian workers and HR

Just over one million Australians changed employer or business in the year to February 2026, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). That puts the national job mobility rate at 7.2%, down from 7.7% a year earlier, continuing a ...

07/31/2026

8 min

ABS wage benchmarks and WTW data reveal Australia's two-tier pay outlook

If your next pay review lands around 3%, you are not being singled out. You are being averaged. WTW's Salary Budget Planning Report projects average salary increase budgets for US employers in 2027 at 3.4%, barely a hair below the 3.5% actually ...

07/22/2026

7 min

Victorian AI hiring laws set a national compliance benchmark for HR

Victoria's state Labor government has put AI hiring tools and workplace surveillance software squarely in the regulatory crosshairs, announcing a package of reforms it says would give the state the toughest worker-monitoring protections in the ...

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