All posts by Richard Holden
Vital Signs: Unemployment steady at 4.2%, but it will need to go lower still to lift wages
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Thursday brought news that Australia’s official unemployment rate in January remained at a historically low 4.2%. In parliament, Prime Minister Scott Morrision boasted of the nation being on track to achieve a rate “with a 3 in front…
small businesses need a national support plan to survive shadow lockdowns
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The “shadow lockdown” accompanying the Omicron outbreak should have come as no surprise to Australia’s policy makers. But the type of government support that helped so many individuals and businesses survive the official lockdowns of 2020 and 2021…
Vital Signs. The 3 problems with fines for not reporting positive COVID tests
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The NSW government this week decreed that anyone returning a positive COVID-19 reading using a rapid antigen test must report their result (through the Service NSW app or website). Failing to do so can result in a $1,000…