Care economy innovation

Care work is an essential, although often invisible, contributor to Australians’ quality of life as well as to Australia’s economic prosperity. It is delivered through the formal paid care workforce and the informal unpaid care workforce.

While I will focus on the formal workforce, I acknowledge the critical importance of informal carers who represent a workforce 1.2 times larger than the entire Australian paid workforce. 

Many Australians – myself included – are informal carers. And I am grateful for the ro...