Posts tagged "economy"

Faced with a difficult economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia needs to quickly reestablish immigration.

The number of Australian companies falling into administration rose in September, in the first increase in insolvency numbers since June. 

A break down of what the budget means for net debt, net migration, individual tax rates, cash balance, and past and projected GDP.

The impact of the pandemic is continuing to show up in odd places. This time, consumer spending on sheets over shoes.

On budget night, journalists question the document's assumptions and projections. In this budget, it goes without saying they are all rubbery.

The Morrison government will spend $7.5 billion on a range of state and territory transport infrastructure projects.

With the government eying off an early start to tax cuts, it has to be asked: will they actually do anything to bring the economy out of the gutter?

COVID-19 has left women economically disadvantaged through unemployment, underemployment, lowered incomes and less secure work.

Overwhelmingly, Australia’s leading economists want the budget to boost social housing and the JobSeeker unemployment benefit.

This week, the JobSeeker 'Coronavirus Supplement' will drop from $550 to $250 a fortnight, before it is dropped entirely at the end of 2020.

Albanese is calling for investment in a number of areas including infrastructure, renewable energy sources, and heavy manufacturing.

Australian governments must buy more locally made medical products in the interest of people’s health and the economy, argues Stuart Elliott.