Australian Economy

For more than 20 years, Anti-Poverty Week has campaigned to ensure that every Australian has adequate food and shelter. How far have we come?

Australia’s high interest rates and low GDP growth are pushing our Economic Misery Index higher, but hopefully not for long

Low interest rates and COVID-19 mean governments, not central banks, now control the world’s key economic levers

Amid the gloom, the COVID-19 crisis has created opportunities to accelerate existing and emerging technologies to make Australia a renewable energy superpower

As the world faces one of the fastest and largest global economic contractions in living memory, Australia’s house prices are likely to fall for months – possibly years

The latest Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey shines a light on those most vulnerable to the COVID-19 economic downturn ­– low-wage workers, women and young people

The COVID-19 hit to the economy is accelerating some trends that were already underway in Australia’s different property markets

Using a university campus as a ‘living laboratory’, a new study evaluates what materials universities use, their associated environmental effects and how to curb them

The Garma Festival in Arnhem Land brings together business leaders, politicians, intellectuals and the region’s Yolngu clans for a policy conference on the opportunities and challenges facing Aboriginal people. But it’s much more than that.

This year’s HILDA Survey shows that hourly wages of the median full-time worker have been rising well ahead of the cost of living