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The housing market has cooled, but housing unaffordability remains a long way off

House prices are falling but housing unaffordability remains high The most recent data on the...

Women Earn $1m less than men & $136,000 Less in Super over Working Life

New research released on International Women’s Day reveals Australian women earn $1.01m less over their...

Australian Inflation Reflects a Historic Redistribution from Workers to Bosses

The upsurge of inflation since the COVID-19 lockdowns has not had equal impacts on all...
Profit-price spiral

Profit-price spiral: excess profits fuelling inflation & interest rates, not wages

New empirical research reveals the main driver for inflation in Australia is excess corporate profits,...

Superannuation needs an objective and needs to be reviewed

Superannuation is too important for retirement to be allowed to be a tax dodge scheme...

Carmichael Centre Announces Appointment of Prof. David Peetz as Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow

Prof. Emeritus Peetz has recently retired from a long career at Griffith University, where he...

With interest rates set to rise another 3 times, no wonder consumers are feeling grim

The Reserve Bank now forecasts real household incomes will take longer to recover than they...

The Reserve Bank is betting that monetary policy is not powerful

The signs are already evident that household consumption is falling despite most mortgage holders yet...

As interest rate rises bite, the Reserve Bank should not raise rates next week

The cost of mortgages is soaring and households are spending less in the shops –...

Inflation looks to have peaked but the RBA set to keep raising rates

Most economists believe inflation has peaked and yet the Reserve Bank is still expected to...

The Reserve Bank needs to wait before raising rates again

Home loans have fallen sharply in the past year, and the rate rises are clearly...

A new tool reveals how badly the Stage 3 cuts mismanage the budget

The Stage 3 tax cuts will cost $300bn in their first 9 years. A new...