Academy Fellow

Professor Sue Richardson is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor at Flinders University and Principal Research Fellow of the National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University. Her principal research interests are in the fields of the labour market, the ageing workforce, immigration,income distribution and the economic resources devoted to children. Recent publications have focussed on the nature and economic circumstances of low wage workers, the regulation of the labour market, immigration, the ageing workforce, vocational education and the social investment in children.

She has a part-time appointment as a Member of the Fair Work Commission Expert Panel (Minimum Wages)

• Reader, School of Economics, University of Adelaide,
• Associate Commissioner, half time, Industry Commission
• Member, Council and Finance Committee, University of Adelaide
• Director, Enterprise Investments Ltd
• Director, Flinders Technologies
• Director, The Pipeline Authority.
• Commissioner, Essential Services Commission of South Australia: 2003-9
• Chair, Thematic Foresighting Cluster of PMSEIC: 2008--
• Member, Fair Work Australia (Minimum Wage Panel): 2009-2013
• Member, National Sustainability Council: 2012--
• Member, Fair Work Commission Expert Panel: 2013-2018

Appointed Member (AM) in the General Division, Order of Australia, in 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List

Economics Society of Australia Distinguished Public Policy Fellow Award 2019

• “What is a skill shortage?”, 2009, Australian Bulletin of Labour, 35:1 pp326-351.
• “A well-skilled future”, 2008, with Richard Teese, Australian Bulletin of Labour, 34:2, pp125-153.
• “Forecasting future demands: what we can and cannot know”, 2008, with Yan Tan, Australian Bulletin of Labour, 34:2, pp154-191.
• “Demographic impacts on the future supply of vocational skills”, 2009, with Yan Tan, Australian Bulletin of Labour, 35:1, pp247-286
• “Living Alone”, 2009, with David de Vaus, Academy of the Social Sciences Occasional Paper 1/2009.
• “Are older workers less productive? A case study of aged care workers in Australia”, 2010, with Zhang Wei, Economic Record: 86; special issue, pp115-123
• “Are Casual and Contract Terms of Employment Hazardous for Mental Health in Australia?”, 2012, with Laurence Lester and Guangyu Zhang, Journal of Industrial Relations: 54:5,557-578.
• “A Review of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey”, 2013, Australian Economic Review, 46:2, pp216-222
• S Richardson (2005) Are Low Wage Jobs For Life?, In Labour Market Deregulation: rewriting the rules. J Isaac and S Macintyre (eds.). Sydney: Federation Press.
• S Richardson and M Prior (eds) (2005) No Time To Lose. Melbourne: MUP.
• F Stanley, S Richardson and M Prior (2005) Children of the Lucky Country?. Sydney: Pan McMillan.
• K Hancock and S Richardson (2004) Economic and Social Effects, In The New Province of Law and Order. J Isaac and S Macintyre (eds.). Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
• Harding, A and Richardson, S (1999) The lowly paid, the unemployed and family incomes, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 3(1):23-46.
• Richardson, S and Harding, A (1999) Poor Workers? The link between low wages, low family income and the tax and transfer system, In Reshaping the Labour Market. Richardson, S (eds.). Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
• Richardson, S (1999) Regulation of the Labour Market, In Reshaping the labour Market. Richardson, S (eds.). Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
• Richardson, S (ed) (1999) Reshaping the Labour Market. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
• Richardson (1998) Who gets minimum wages?, Journal of Industrial Relations, 40(4):554-579.