“A massive movement of people into new jobs” or Josh joshing again?
Josh Frydenberg's embarrassing take-down by the Senate this week over a bizarre plot to over-regulate proxy ...
Alan Austin
Alan Austin is a freelance journalist with interests in news media, religious affairs and economic and social issues.
Australia hits new low on Transparency International Corruption Index
The 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 deflation
The drop in skilled workers arriving in Australia has hit the economy, and it began many years before the ...
Eight years in, how do our Coalition economic management gurus measure up?
Elected on a promise to eliminate Labor's ''debt disaster'', the Coalition has added $600 billlion to the national ...
Suffering in comparison: Australia’s economic outcomes the worst in 60 years
The Covid pandemic has affected several industries and data sets. But it does not explain Australia falling down ...
Beyond the Spin: workers’ share of wealth slumps to record low
Workers now have the lowest share ever of the nation’s earnings. Under-employment is even worse now than it was ...
Third, Oh Really? ABC News swallows Coalition data spin
ABC News is showing its extensive audience that growth in gross domestic product (GDP) ranks third in the world - ...
Propaganda Machine: Deloitte skews fact on economy, media laps it up
Deloitte Access Economics’ claims about Australia’s economic recovery were repeated verbatim by media outlets, ...
Budget Spin: Labor’s debt a ‘disaster’; Coalition’s debt, three times larger, ‘sustainable’
When gross debt was 16.8% of GDP in 2013 under Labor, the Coalition condemned this as “spiralling out of control” ...
Earth to Josh: Treasurer Frydenberg’s ‘world-leading economy’ claim is false
On key economic variables Australia lags well behind 20 comparable advanced economies yet Treasurer Josh ...
Third Wave: Australia close to world’s best as Covid-19 numbers soar globally
Donald Trump aside, deaths in the US continue to soar from Covid-19, with a reported 383,000, and 23 million ...
Reality Underemployed: time for truth in jobless figures
It is time the Australian Bureau of Statistics changed the way it reported unemployment figures, writes Alan ...
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