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Vital Signs: Australia's hairdressing-led economic recovery can't last

04 Mar 2022

Australia’s GDP was up 3.4 per cent last quarter of 2021, on the back of pent-up consumer spending. Other factors must drive future growth.

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Vital Signs: COVID-19 recession is different – and we need more stimulus to deal with it

19 Jun 2020

This recession is not like any other in living memory. Phase one involved a massive supply shock, phase two will involve dealing with a collapse in demand.

Stimulus packages history first

Taxpayers footing the bill for stimulus packages

28 Apr 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has caused the most extensive disruption in decades to economies, with far-reaching consequences.

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Actions to avoid unemployment in a post-coronavirus economy

20 Apr 2020

The federal government should do five key things to keep more people working, says UNSW Business School labour markets expert Raja Junankar. 

‘The Tyranny of Social Distance’ preventing people from being in crowds and increasingly in smaller and smaller groups.

Coronanomics: What we’ve learnt so far about the impact of COVID-19 on the economy

03 Apr 2020

The global economy will never be the same again after the COVID-19 outbreak and neither will Australia in terms of how we work and how we engage with nature. 

J.W. Nevile Fellow Tim Harcourt from the UNSW Business School explains how the coronavirus will affect the Australian economy

Impact of the coronavirus on the Australian economy

07 Feb 2020

J.W. Nevile Fellow Tim Harcourt from the UNSW Business School explains how the coronavirus will affect the Australian economy; namely the services exports, tourism and education where the big impacts will be felt.

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Bleak 2020 forecast for the Australian economy

06 Dec 2019

Weak GDP growth and the US-China trade dispute remain prominent economic challenges for 2020 according to UNSW's Professor Richard Holden.

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Vital Signs: Sure, economic growth is low, but think about what's gone right

06 Sep 2019

More than good management and more than good luck, we've been blessed by delightfully fortunate timing.

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Vital Signs: Amid talk of recessions, our progress on wages and unemployment is almost non-existent

16 Aug 2019

The progress the Australian economy was making has been slowed or reversed, at exactly the wrong time.

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Unemployment steady at 5.1% – but how many full time?

16 May 2019

Australia's trend unemployment rate remained steady in April 2019 at 5.1%, according to the latest information released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

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