We estimate that unemployment and underemployment in the 13 years between 2004 and 2016 directly resulted in more than 3,000 Australian deaths by suicide.
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Australia’s inflation data for the March quarter suggests the central bank will impose one or two further increases to meet its policy objectives.
The pandemic has changed economic thinking on how low the unemployment rate can go. We now need a new full employment target.
The chances of any bank in Australia or New Zealand following the trajectory of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse is effectively zero.
Australia’s employment growth is slowing, but the ups and downs from month to month make it hard say what happens next.
Australia faces an unpredictable global outlook, rising interest rates and wages not keeping up with the cost of living.
The Albanese government’s first budget contains many measures that may contribute to wellbeing, but that’s not the same as being a wellbeing budget.
Australia’s 500,000 ‘missing’ temporary migrants have exacerbated labour shortages in some sectors. But there’s no need for policy makers to panic.
Unlike with petrol prices, Australian gas consumers are largely insulated from international volatility.
Evergrande has a very high likelihood of failing without intervention by the Chinese government.
The unemployment decline isn’t as impressive as it first appears, and wages growth remains sluggish.
Australia’s official unemployment rate falling to 5.5% is enough to make a treasurer dance. But we shouldn’t get too carried away.
From some statistics 2020 looks like economic good times. Have relief measures averted economic pain or simply deferred it?
Borrowing to reduce unemployment and increase growth will pay for itself.
Talks about creating a trans-Tasman bubble have focused on kick-starting short-term economic activity through tourism. But Australia and NZ could also increase manufacturing and trade integration.
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Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Research Manager, Youth Mental Health & Technology and Mental Wealth Initiative Lead, University of Sydney
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Honorary Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Co-Director, Health and Policy, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
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Lecturer/ Assistant Professor, Macquarie University
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Honorary Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Assoc. Professor and Head of Systems Modelling, Simulation & Data Science, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne