Disappointing inflation number today, but worth noting much of the increase comes from 'non-demand' sources. Big contributors were education, health and insurance. Rents the only substantive exception.

Of course every female homicide is a tragedy, but the current discourse is very disconnected from the empirical reality. We are making progress. Not enough progress, but we are going in the right direction, and that matters for how we think about this issue.

We haven't done as good a job of avoiding the resource curse as we like to think. I think it is the underlying driver of much of our bad economic policy. Jim Chalmers rips up Paul Keating’s economic playbook afr.com/policy/economy…

Congratulations to Treasury’s Nathan Deutscher who received the Economic Society of Australia’s ‘2024 Young Economist Award’ at the Australian Conference of Economists, last night.

christopher joye CBA analysis of labour demand

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My article in the Conversation about housing and intergenerational economic mobility in Australia theconversation.com/yes-we-are-a-m… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Struggling to understand this economic vandalism, seemingly operating as their main housing policy. Will certainly cause job losses at our top universities. And these are generally good-quality, high-paying jobs.

Since Kathryn Campbell is keen to get her face in the news today, here she is joking about RoboDebt in 2018. Two years later, in a senate committee hearing, she claimed not to know what RoboDebt meant.

Taking into account both income taxes and inflation, a worker on average weekly earnings is considerably worse off than a few years ago, despite the July 2024 tax cuts (5% below peak for males; 3% below peak for females)

This is an extraordinary picture. It shows the measure of household income per capita used to produce the Henderson Poverty Line. The post-COVID decline has us back at an average income level not seen since 2009.

I find this article rather annoying. We can accept that social media causes harm without thinking a blanket ban is the solution. There are both negative and positive effects. The focus should be on addressing the negative effects. theconversation.com/there-is-relia… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

I did not anticipate this. Superficially good news for the higher education sector, but the reasons for the Coalition's opposition are troublesome. It seems they think the proposed caps are too loose (although they also mention chaotic implementation as a factor).

Class-action lawsuits serve a useful social purpose, but our legal system seems to reward lawyers at a level likely to induce litigiousness. This is a settlement with ANZ reached by Phi Finney McDonald (pending Court approval on 19 Dec). $34 million in legal costs is a lot.

Prof Peter Siminski (ARC DP 2025) will be exploring: Inequality and intergenerational mobility: measuring what matters and why You can learn more about Peter’s impactful research here: youtube.com/watch?v=phFUFM…

HILDA 23 has been released! Please bear with us as we process the large number of requests we are receiving. To assist please ensure you include a clear abstract on why having access will support your project! dataverse.ada.edu.au/dataverse/hilda

Well this is gross ... Australian GDP per capita fell for the 7th consecutive quarter and is now down 2.1% from its peak #ausbiz #auspol

An update on Australian household disposable income per capita. Not much impact from the Stage 3 (July 2024) tax cuts evident in the September quarter.

1/ Did you know that current planning rules force most new apartments onto our most polluted areas—main roads? 🛣️ This exposes residents to harmful pollution while banning denser housing on quieter, less-polluted side streets. 🧵 👇

Australia prides itself on low inequality. But it's spiked with the end of Covid, the long-running HILDA survey has revealed: smh.com.au/politics/feder…