Author: Chris Watts
Policies, Publications & Submissions:
- June 6, 2025: The Risks of Harmonisation without Consideration
- January 15, 2025: Free TAFE
- May 15, 2024: Building a worker-focussed incentive scheme
- March 8, 2024: Beyond the Minimum – ACTU Response to the Draft Department of Finance Supplier Code of Conduct
- February 16, 2024: A National Skills Passport
- December 18, 2023: Increasing Women’s Participation in VET and VET Careers
- July 14, 2023: JobKeeper: Flawed but necessary
- April 6, 2023: Jobs and Skills Australia Amendment Bill 2023
- March 15, 2023: Perception and Status of VET
- December 14, 2022: Reforming Apprentice Support
- October 14, 2022: National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2022
- August 19, 2022: Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave Bill 2022
- June 24, 2022: ACTU Response to Draft Determinations in Annual Wage Review 2021-22
- January 17, 2022: Privacy Act Review
- November 26, 2021: Replacing the CDP – what comes next?
- August 13, 2021: Good Faith
- June 9, 2021: ‘Exempted’ from rights.
- April 9, 2021: Automatic Mutual Recognition – A Premature Reform
- February 12, 2021: Commonwealth Integrity Commission Bill 2020 – Exposure Draft
- February 12, 2021: Automatic Mutual Recognition – A Premature Reform
- February 3, 2021: Defending Responsible Lending
- December 18, 2020: Supporting Australian Aviation
- October 26, 2020: The JobMaker Hiring Credit – a recipe for insecurity
- October 21, 2020: Cashless Welfare – continuation without justification
- September 11, 2020: Higher Education Support Amendment (Jobs-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020
- July 31, 2020: Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Financial Transparency) Bill 2020
- July 16, 2020: Reforming the NASWD for a better VET system
- July 10, 2020: Protecting N.T Representation
- May 28, 2020: Responding to the COVID-19 crisis
- March 19, 2020: Micro-credentials: The Union View
- March 6, 2020: Wage Theft: The exploitation of workers is widespread and has become a business model
- February 28, 2020: Creating opportunities for Cooperation
- January 29, 2020: Not So Simple: Enhancing Indigenous Economic Opportunity
- December 18, 2019: Reforming VET Performance
- July 29, 2019: Raising the Standard – Improving standard distribution in Australia
- April 18, 2019: Productivity Commission Inquiry into Mental Health
- March 14, 2019: Responsible Innovation: Whither Workers?
- September 27, 2018: Mixed Messages: How jobactive is failing our unemployed
- September 14, 2018: Whose Health Record is it anyway?
- September 12, 2018: Workplace exposure standards framework under the model work health and safety laws
- August 10, 2018: A supercharged Australia: The Economic, Workforce and Environmental Benefits of Australian Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
- August 6, 2018: Restoring the APS
- July 26, 2018: Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storgae Amendment ( Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2018 (Cth)
- July 19, 2018: Exploitation in the cleaning industry
- June 19, 2018: Regional inequality in Australia and the Future of Work
- June 15, 2018: Procurement
- April 10, 2018: Corporate Tax Cuts
- March 9, 2018: Unduly short VET courses
- February 27, 2018: Student Loan Sustainability
- February 21, 2018: ACTU Submission to Inquiry based on Auditor-General’s report No.19 (2017-18)
- January 31, 2018: Review of ANZSCO – ACTU input
- January 30, 2018: Lost in the Noise: The neglect of regional Australia
- January 10, 2018: ACTU Response to ‘Future Proof: Protecting Australians through Education and Skills’
- December 8, 2017: Consultation on ‘Fees for Paper Bills’
- October 6, 2017: National Plan to reduce Violence Against Women and their Children
- September 28, 2017: ACTU Submission to Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card) Bill 2017
- August 16, 2017: Review of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011
- July 18, 2017: Inquiry regarding Penalty Rates
- March 28, 2017: ACTU submission to the inquiry into Innovation and Creativity: Workforce for the New Economy
- February 10, 2017: ACTU submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Human Services: Stage Two
- September 29, 2016: The People’s Inquiry into Privatisation in Australia