PROGRESS OF AUSTRALIANS

Over recent decades, significant economic and social changes have altered the way in which work is organised and carried out. There have also been changes in the composition of the workforce, and in the way in which pay and other employment conditions are set.

The impact of these changes has not been uniform across the various subgroups within the population. Among groups of interest are those at both the younger and older ends of the age spectrum, lone parents, people with disabilities, carers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people living in remote regions of Australia.