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Race to the Top
FACTBase Bulletin 79 - The Western Australian and Greater Perth Workforce Past Trends and Future Projections
FACTBase Bulletin 79 identifies projected industry employment growth and occupation demand to November 2025 in Western Australia and Greater Perth while also examining the future composition and availability of workers to meet these demands.

Race to the Top
FACTBase Bulletin 79 Snapshot
Download our research snapshot for a high-level overview of FACTBase Bulletin 79's key findings. FACTBase Bulletin 79 identifies projected industry employment growth and occupation demand to November 2025 in Western Australia and Greater Perth while also examining the future composition and availability of workers to meet these demands.

Race to the Top
Service industries to drive WAs future employment growth
New research has found an extra 25,500 workers will be needed to meet demand in the health care and social assistance sector within Greater Perth by 2025, outstripping mining as the biggest growth industry in the metropolitan region.

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Insights into immediate labour market challenges
Three topics are top of mind in early 2022: COVID-19 and the virulent Omicron variant; labour shortages; and Western Australia’s ongoing hard border – each relevant and all related.

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FACTBase Bulletin 78 The Western Australian Labour Market Insights Into Immediate Challenges
FACTBase Bulletin 78 focuses on the challenges of accessing workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research explores the growing demand for workers for specific occupations and skill levels and investigates sources of domestic and overseas labour supply for Western Australia and Greater Perth.

Race to the Top
FACTBase Bulletin 78 Snapshot
Download our research snapshot for a high-level overview of FACTBase Bulletin 78's key findings. FACTBase Bulletin 78 focuses on the challenges of accessing workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research explores the growing demand for workers for specific occupations and skill levels and investigates sources of domestic and overseas labour supply for Western Australia and Greater Perth.

Race to the Top
Utilising latent labour to unlock Perth's labour shortage perfect storm
Committee for Perth Chief Executive Officer Marion Fulker AM said WA businesses were facing a perfect storm with unemployment rates the lowest in the country and existing border restrictions limiting access to interstate and overseas workers to WA.

Future of Work
COVID Uncertainty Means Holidays Haven't Refreshed Us
At the beginning of January, I typically pen a love letter to Perth and this newspaper has been good enough to publish a number of these Op-eds over the years.

Future of Work
FACTBase Bulletin 77 - COVID SubUrbanisms Intra Mobility Trends in Greater Perth
Following on from our Future of Work major research project, this FACTBase Bulletin reviews the intra-metropolitan mobility trends in Greater Perth from February 2020 to August 2021 providing insights on how the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions had an impact on mobility to key places - retail/recreation, transit stations, workplaces and residential - creating shifts across the region.

Annual Review
2021: A year in review
This year we were pleased to finalise our major research project the Future of Work through the release of The Future of Work: Equipping WA and its people to lead the Nation in the future world of work report and we also commenced work on the Race to the Top major project.