The Institute for Health and Welfare issued an “errata” to correct statements about inequality that were perfectly correct.
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Households are buying no more than they were a year ago, and the wage share of national income is the lowest since 1964.
Australia is becoming more like the United States. Increasingly, we invest overseas. Our domestic economy is weak.
Freedom of Information documents show the Bureau of Statistics spent a good deal of effort toning down news of rising inequality. The Productivity Commission seems to have been at it too.
Investments only makes sense if there are markets for the things those investments will produce. It isn’t clear that there are.
Better data would tell us more about the ultrawealthy, but they really do seem to be growing more wealthy, more quickly, than the rest of us.
The treasurer says 2018 was a year of two halves, but there were signs of a downturn well before mid year.
We’ve been in the dark about how we use our time for more than a decade. It’s the decade that saw the rise of the smartphone, streaming and social media.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ latest analysis of the impact of government benefits and taxes on household income shows this reduces income inequality by more than 40% in Australia.
The people who have the most to gain from the extraordinary resources of the internet are missing out, including those not employed, older Australians and migrants from non-English speaking countries.
Weak Australian inflation and housing credit data mean the Reserve Bank is unlikely to move on interest rates.
The squeeze on wealth in the middle class by those at the top is a long established trend in international inequality data. But the ABS doesn’t provide this information.
The same-sex marriage postal survey gave Australians a chance to create data for social change. And that’s rare.
In the last few years, significant resources have been devoted to changing attitudes towards domestic violence – so why aren’t the numbers going down?
Business conditions aren’t translating to confidence, despite growing profits and jobs.
Politics Podcast: Mathias Cormann on the same-sex marriage postal survey
Since announcing that the ABS would be responsible for carrying out the same-sex marriage postal survey, Mathias Cormann has had no shortage of questions.
The key question in a legal challenge to the ‘postal plebiscite’ is whether information about Australians’ opinions on same-sex marriage constitutes ‘statistical information’.
The two major sources of data show conflicting trends on income inequality.
New ABS figures on film, TV and digital gaming show that subscription broadcasters and online content creators are booming. Yet local content quotas only apply to free-to-air broadcasters.
Total meat consumption per capita in Australia has been stable since the 1960s but the type of meat consumed has changed significantly. Chicken and pork both now far outstrip beef, mutton and lamb.
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct professor, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Australian National University
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Research Professor in Social Policy, UNSW Sydney
