Posts tagged "australian economy"

Employment indicators in Australia are increasing, but there's more to the story that impressive headlines, writes Richard Holden.

As Australian businesses enter the new financial year, IBISWorld reveals which industries are set to have a bumper 2018-19, and which are likely to struggle.

The full bench of the Fair Work Commission has this morning decided to increase the national minimum wage by 3.5%.

the Asia Pacific region, by advancing women’s equality, could add a collective $4.5 trillion to annual GDPs in 2025, which would be a 12% increase over the business-as-usual trajectory.

Cutting personal income taxes seems likely to provide much more of a boost to the Australian economy than cutting company tax.

Australia is ranked in the top third of countries in almost all indices measuring the best countries to retire, according to an analysis of nine separate ageing and retirement indices. The problem is, experts contriving such indices can’t agree about which ingredients should be included and which are most important.

By David Treisman, Monash University

Politicians often cite the large market value of exports as justification for free trade agreements….

By Richard Holden, UNSW

In this column, UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden looks at changes to how inflation is calc…

By Dominic Powell and Emma Koehn. 

Australia’s last existing “Safeway”-branded Woolworths supermarket has closed its doors, reports ABC,…

  Australia’s economy was sheltered from the worst of 2008’s infamous Global Financial Crisis by a fortuitously timed resources boom, s…

Considerable strides have been in recent years toward gender equality in the Australian workplace, spurred not only by a societal conception…

 The National Broadband Network (NBN) can boost Australia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by about 2% in the long term and, more impor…