Statistics New Zealand released the national accounts for Q3 2024, which reported a 1.0% decline in GDP over the quarter to ...

Redbridge Group Director Simon Welsh was interviewed by Sky News this week. In the interview, he argued that the Albanese ...

The AFR’s Ronald Mizen has published an article describing Australia’s broken ‘skilled’ visa system, which is importing many ...

The Albanese government’s target of building 1.2 million homes over five years, or 240,000 homes annually, necessitates having a capable construction industry. The latest insolvency data from the ...

I questioned why the population estimates in the Q3 National Accounts were substantially different from the official Q2 ...

On Wednesday, I reported that 26,000 businesses have fallen into insolvency since the 2022 election, including a record 12,405 insolvencies this calendar year. Data from the Australian Financial ...

The next federal government should revisit the 2010 Henry Tax Review and commence a process of fundamental tax reform. The federal government needs to broaden the tax base away from personal ...

Asian stock markets have done relatively well given the near crash on Wall Street overnight on the latest Fed rate cut and subsequent inflation notes that implied a lot less cutting to be going on ...

Westpac Senior Economist Pat Bustamante estimates that “high nominal income growth on the back of elevated commodity prices, strong wages growth and high inflation, along with record population ...

The Albanese government’s first budget, released in October 2022, forecasts net overseas migration of 470,000 over its first two financial years (2022-23 and 2023-24). Leith van Onselen is Chief ...

It is fair to say that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would already be cutting interest rates if not for the nation’s low unemployment rate of 3.9%. Australia’s economic growth is ...

The 2024-25 Tax Expenditure and Insights Statement was released on Wednesday by the Australian Treasury. As illustrated below, total superannuation tax expenditures are estimated to total around $ ...