The coronavirus pandemic was expected to cut Australia’s population growth. New figures show it dropping to its slowest rate since 2005.
The Morrison government will not start trying to repair the budget bottom line until 2024 despite a $15.9 billion improvement in the nation’s finances.
The budget and economy is improving. But it’s impossible to ignore record debt and deficits left by the coronavirus recession.
About 90,000 people got back into the workforce in November.
The mid-year budget update will show a better bottom line than that predicted in October thanks to much higher iron ore prices and a better jobs market.
Optimism has returned to Victoria's $42 billion property sector after the pandemic but the industry is desperate to get office workers back to their desks.
COVID-19 changed our spending patterns. And that's going to change how inflation is measured,rippling through everything from JobSeeker to business contracts.
An extra 10,000 home care packages,at a cost of $850 million,will be funded by the federal government as it expands its response to the Aged Care Royal Commission.
Ratings agency S&P Global says the cost of the recession and governments'responses to it will be an ever-present legacy.
New analysis suggests the deficit may be $3 billion lower than what was predicted in early October.
The missed dinners,the lost chances for an afternoon walk,the battle for loo paper. Researchers have found each Australian adult lost the equivalent of $17,000 due to declining wellbeing or life satisfaction.