Energy market reforms announced by the Victorian Government, including a default electricity price offer and increased monitoring of competition and price margins, are likely to benefit low-income households.

Read the Brotherhood's submission to the Essential Services Commission regarding the Victorian default offer (PDF, 751 KB)

Read our media release Energy market reforms will offer welcome relief to vulnerable Victorian households

Find out more about our work on energy affordability.

Young Australians are now far more likely to work part time than 40 years ago. Our report unpacks the latest data about the increasing percentage of youth who have part-time work and want more hours.

Read the short research report Part-time purgatory: young and underemployed in Australia (PDF, 366 KB)

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The Given the Chance for Asylum Seekers program acted as a ‘bridge’ to employment for asylum seekers, circumventing some of the constraints of their visa conditions and mainstream recruitment barriers.

Funded by a philanthropist, the program worked intensively with jobseekers and with employers in Melbourne to identify suitable job opportunities and traineeships. Our study examined the employment trajectories of the participants.

Read the report by Seuwandi Wickramasinghe, Building bridges to work (PDF, 1.5 MB)

How can we support young people who have experienced a child protection or youth justice order to make a successful transition to adulthood?

In this first stage of the Skills for Independence pilot (funded by the Department of Education and Training) researchers examined the mechanisms that enabled young people to progress through the Certificate I in Developing Independence (DI). DI is being delivered in four sites across Victoria as a novel approach to increase engagement in education, job training and aspiration-building for these young people.

Read the report by Lisa Conley, Push and pull: increasing student engagement in Developing Independence (PDF, 833 KB)

A focus on people’s needs and aspirations, stronger linkages with local communities and increased collaboration are keys to services that will enable humanitarian migrants to rebuild their lives and contribute to Australia as their new home.

Read the Brotherhood’s submission to the Independent Review into Integration, Employment and Settlement Outcomes (PDF, 1.2 MB)