The Jobs Summit was a start, but we need to start increasing the number of women in the workforce immediately
By now it should be clear that Australia’s dismal rate of female workforce participation is something that needs to be drastically improved.
Australia’s June quarter accounts show GDP is doing well, but economic management is about to get harder
Australia’s economy is now more than 5% bigger than it was before COVID-19, a better performance than most comparable economies.
An extra 60,600 Australians found work in May, so why have wages barely lifted?
Australia has now managed to keep a rate of unemployment below 4% for three consecutive months. If things are so good, why is wage growth so low?
The government is boasting a 4.2% unemployment rate, but wage growth is still sluggish
Australia’s official unemployment rate in January remained at a historically low 4.2%, but the story on wages is not impressive.
How RBA governor Philip Lowe expects Australia’s economy to progress in 2022
Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe has painted an optimistic picture of where the Australian economy is heading after a turbulent 2021.
How the right budget could send Australia’s unemployment below 3% for the first time in 50 years
A budget that forecast a rate lower than 4%, but adopted as a target or stretch forecast an unemployment rate lower than 3%, would make history.
A Hawke-era jobs summit would be a silver bullet for our workforce, Labor says. But would it work?
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese says a jobs summit would help tackle unemployment and underemployment as the workforce struggles amid the pandemic.
Spend big, go low: Frydenberg’s big budget aims to drive unemployment down
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has come good on his historic promise to keep spending way beyond the crisis, to drive the unemployment rate down below where it was when the pandemic started.
