by Ed Husic and Mike Priddis
Let’s be blunt: government and corporate Australia is spectacularly unprepared for automation.
You may think that’s an especially provocative statement or blazingly unfair.But try naming a government program or corporate plan to tackle the predicted massive impact of technological change on employment?It’s not like there haven’t been clear signals of what’s coming.Oxford University, the OECD and MIT have long warned of the effects of job automation. Media, industry, unions and the tech sector have said we need to act on this.Governments commission and consume studies and tacitly accept the extent of change coming. For example, […]
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