Stagnant incomes, widening gaps in opportunity based on where people live and go to school and anxiety about the impact of rapidly emerging technologies are contributing to concern about inequality, according to CEDA’s report on inequality out today. Read more…
20/04/2018
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/Media-releases/CEDA-report-inequality-levels-largely-unchanged-since-2007-but-new-risks-emerging
“Governments have committed to halving the gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians by 2018,” Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs Senator the Hon. Nigel Scullion told a CEDA forum in South Australia (SA). Read more…
16/04/2015
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Commonwealth-public-sector-to-increase-its-Indigenous-workforce-to-three-per-cent-Federal-Minister
“One of the biggest things that's wrong with policy is that we divide the life of people up into segments,” Jesuit Social Services Chair, Patricia Faulkner AO has told a CEDA audience. Read more…
24/04/2018
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Holistic-approach-needed-to-address-inequality
Fundamental ethical questions lie at the heart of questions we need to resolve around inequality, according to the Ethics Centre Executive Director, Dr Simon Longstaff AO. And, he said, the starting point for any discussion on inequality should be the basic presumption of the intrinsic dignity of every person. Read more…
27/04/2018
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Human-dignity-the-starting-point-for-discussions-on-inequality
“There’s a very interesting movement that’s happening, and that is the interest of shareholders in the top 200 listed companies,” former Federal Senator, Cabinet Minister and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, and JP Morgan Advisory Council member, the Hon. Helen Coonan, said at a CEDA event in Sydney. Read more…
30/03/2015
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Never-underestimate-the-power-of-people-to-demand-gender-equality-the-Hon-Helen-Coonan
Increasing Newstart is an immediate reform that could begin to significantly reduce poverty and disadvantage in Australia and CEDA research shows it is in line with community expectations, according to CEDA Chief Executive, Melinda Cilento. Read more…
17/09/2018
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/Media-releases/Parliament-needs-to-catch-up-with-community-expectations-on-Newstart
CEDA Chief Executive, Melinda Cilento, presents findings from How unequal? Insights on inequality at the report launch. Read more…
20/04/2018
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Stats-versus-commentary-–-what’s-the-true-story-on-inequality-in-Australia