By Joe Branigan
Some of Australia’s best public policy minds meet in Brisbane today for the Queensland Jobs Growth Summit.
The summit comes at a time when Queensland’s and Australia’s unemployment rates seem stuck at around 6%, about 2% above the lows achieved by the end of phase 1 of the decade-long mining boom (2003-2012), just before the GFC slowdown and the introduction of theFair Work Act in 2009.
This opinion piece was originally published by Queensland Economy Watch, on 26 April 2016.