Australia’s economy grim – but so is the rest of the worldBy Alan Austin | September 6, 2024Strip out immigration - 6 quarters of negative per capita GDP - and Australia is in recession but it's not all bad ...
Crisis, what crisis? Australia’s economy is doing well compared with many in the worldBy Alan Austin | March 7, 2024While many feel the pinch of the cost of living crisis, yesterday’s economic growth numbers from the Bureau of ...
Murdoch’s wailing old white man scribes get Jacinda Ardern dead wrong, againBy Alan Austin | January 21, 2023As the world is thanking Jacinda Ardern profoundly for her 14 years in New Zealand’s Parliament and more than five ...
Workers’ share of the national income pie falls to all-time lowBy Alan Austin | September 14, 2022Income tax and company tax rates combined with the various indirect taxes have enriched the top end at the expense ...
A winner by wallet maybe, but Lachlan Murdoch has put Crikey on the world stageBy Alan Austin | September 9, 2022If he gets in the witness box, Lachlan Murdoch stands to win his defamation action against Crikey but the ...
Scott and Josh “superior economic managers”? Not according to the IMFBy Alan Austin | May 7, 2022It may be the only campaign tactic they have left, and it's a lie, but the media laps it up and Scott Morrison and ...
Blinded by dodgy stats: Frydenberg’s sermon relies on rusty tabletsBy Alan Austin | March 31, 2022Australia's recovery is leading the world? Biggest economic shock since the Depression? There used to be a rule ...
Resilient, Josh, really? Treasurer gilds the lily 12 ways on Australia’s economyBy Alan Austin | March 8, 2022Josh Frydenberg has again claimed Australia is "outperforming all other major advanced economies" in a Liberal ...
Zombie Doctrine: belief in Coalition as “super economic managers” sticks, despite proof otherwiseBy Alan Austin | February 18, 2022The Coalition as "superior economic managers"? The data demonstrates the polar opposite. Alan Austin looks at the ...
“A massive movement of people into new jobs” or Josh joshing again?By Alan Austin | February 11, 2022Josh Frydenberg's embarrassing take-down by the Senate this week over a bizarre plot to over-regulate proxy ...
Australia hits new low on Transparency International Corruption IndexBy Alan Austin | January 27, 2022The decline of political and corporate standards in Australia over recent years is not just in the imagination of ...
Skilled migrant arrivals hit 20-year low – but Covid is not the reason for innovation deflationBy Alan Austin | January 6, 2022The drop in skilled workers arriving in Australia has hit the economy, and it began many years before the ...