17 April 2023

Inequality on steroids: The distribution of economic growth in Australia

Since the global financial crisis there has been a fundamental change in the operation of the Australian economy. Since World War Two, the majority of the benefits of economic growth have flowed to the bottom 90 per cent of income earners. However, as shown in Figure 1, between 2009 and 2019 the top 10 per cent got almost all of the gains of the latest recovery: that group secured 93 per cent of the income growth in that period.

27 September 2021

In competition between China and the US, Australian consumers choose China

Australias relationship with China involves many dimensions and Australia/China relations look a lot different from different perspectives.