Things look worse for casual workers than at any time during the pandemic
- Written by Ariadne Vromen, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
At the national Australia Day ceremony in 2021, Prime Minister Scott Morrison spoke of the contribution by frontline workers during the pandemic. He mentioned health workers, the defence forces, the police and farmers, as well as “the truck drivers, the wholesale and the retail workers keeping our supermarket shelves stocked”.
In his 202...