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3 days ago · Australian Treasury increases net migration forecast 19 Dec 2024 | Australia's Treasury increases 2024-2025 net migration forecast by 80,000
#9 IA STORY OF 2024: Labor looks likely to win 2025 Election
Dec 26, 2024 · The Australian Securities Exchange index of share prices is at a record high, which is contributing to growth in the wealth of Australian workers through their superannuation accounts.The ASX200 index is above 8,000 points for the first time ever, which is a solid lift in the last year that favours shareholders and superannuants.
The cost of living crisis is over — so why aren’t we all celebrating?
Oct 14, 2024 · Inflation fell to 5.6%, down from 6.6% in the previous quarter and 7.3% the one before.. Productivity increased from 94.5 to 95.5 points, the first rise in six quarters.. Welfare clients seeking short term emergency accommodation declined for the second consecutive quarter, as did those requiring financial assistance. JobSeeker claimants fell to 5.16% of the labour force, the lowest on record.
EXCLUSIVE: Extent of Perrottet family's alleged shady links exposed
Mar 9, 2023 · Immediately after leaving, Charles Perrottet began at BP, where he had been recruited to 'manage BP’s external stakeholders (which involved building strong and enduring relationships with policymakers, influencers and industry associations)'.. Charles Perrottet's LinkedIn bio states: 'I formulated BP’s strategic position on public policy issues, engaging all affected internal business ...
Some Australian families are struggling, but fewer than ever before
Aug 5, 2024 · ABC News added to the negative narratives, as always: ‘Government's inflation policies hurting: Shadow Treasurer’; ‘Anthony Albanese's woes go much deeper than a reshuffle.Voter confidence has plummeted’; ‘For the first time in months, household spending has fallen’; and ‘Can Labor win a second term in this economy? In an unfortunate development last week, some of the alternative ...
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May 22, 2024 · Indy Eye: Burning down the house with friendlyjordies 15 Jan 2025 | Jordan Shanks-Markovina, AKA friendlyjordies, shares his thoughts on politics, media, fireb ...
Australia's productivity not as bad as you've been told
Sep 24, 2024 · If a worker can churn out more output for a given level of hours worked, the economy grows in a non-inflationary, sustainable way. This is a good thing because it feeds into workers' wages and business profit growth as well as helping the budget as tax receipts rise in a strongly growing economy.
Corruption is 'endemic' in Australia - Independent Australia
Apr 28, 2022 · What of the whistle-blowers in the APS who stand tall and tell their stories of corrupt government officials for the sake of all Australians? Does not the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 protect them from the greedy, self-interested and corrupt?. Unfortunately, there are more than enough reports of how this Act was established to protect the wrongdoers and punish the whistle-blowers which ...
ABC trails Coalition on its Road to Nowhere
Sep 12, 2024 · And the pièce de résistance this week, was Michael “Well-I-was-Housing-Minister-between-2019-and-2022” Sukkar on Q&A answering a question about negative gearing by prattling on about “high taxes” on housing for first home buyers . So it’s very galling on one hand, when you have any politician saying, 'Well, we want more affordable housing', yet they’re taxing housing to death ...