Australia’s economy is already alarmingly weak. A big cut in government spending in next week’s budget could push us from a per capita recession into an actual recession.
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Far from being “rampant” inflation was tame in the first two months of this year. We know this because of big changes in the way the bureau prepares its data.
More than one million borrowers are set to come off ultra-low fixed mortgage rates this year and next, meaning the full effect of the ten rate rises to date is yet to be felt.
Australians buy so much stuff that they have run out of space in their homes for it all, so storage businesses are booming.
An economic approach to emancipation.
Woolworths’ A$780 millon investment in new automated distribution centres is a sign of how much COVID-19 has changed the way we shop. It points what’s to come in the retail sector.
Even in places that are now COVID-free spending remains subdued, and different.
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus Professor, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Journalism, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Associate Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer of Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Lancaster University