In the short term, falling fertility rates can actually have some economic benefits. But the picture gets more complex in the long term, and far less rosy.
- Professor of Economics, RMIT University
A new study highlights significant misunderstandings about the scale and scope of Australians who receive unemployment payments.
The baby bonus did its job, encouraging people to have more children at a time when fertility rates were low.
Despite an emerging market in alternative financial services for people on low incomes, little is really known how these Australians manage their money.
Is coal in trouble in Australia? The Bureau of Resource and Energy Economics recently revealed A$150B-worth of mining and energy projects have been mothballed in the last 12 months. The media is reporting…
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has claimed that US-based Peabody Energy’s $5bn takeover bid for Queensland’s Macarthur Coal represents an endorsement for the government’s carbon tax. But does Peabody’s bid…
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