Previously hard-hit rural electorates in Queensland and NSW with large tourism industries have regained some jobs, while inner-city electorates are now among the hardest hit.
read more The latest jobs data shows urban electorates are now being hit hardest by COVID-19
Coastal electorates that rely heavily on tourism have been hit hardest, and workers in rural and regional electorates have been hit harder than workers in the major capitals.
read more Job losses caused by COVID-19, electorate by electorate
2.7 million people either lost their jobs or lost hours of work in April. The unemployment rate doesn't capture the scale of COVID's effect on jobs.
read more The modest rise in unemployment hides a much grimmer picture
More than one million Australians downloaded the COVIDSafe app in the first 12 hours of its release. But that is a long way from the numbers the app needs to be effective. The government needs to do more to convince people it can be trusted.
Do some people have too much influence over public policy in Australia? This blog post shows that older people, and men, were heavily over-represented in submissions to the 2015 Tax White Paper.
There is no good news for private health insurers in the quarterly health Insurance statistics released today.
read more More of the same in private hospital insurance data
The private health insurance industry likes to warn Australians of a doomsday scenario. Don’t believe it.
Since the early 1990s, higher education statistics have defined someone as of low socio-economic status if they are from a region classified in the lowest 25 per cent in Australia according to the ABS Index of Education and Occupation. Wouldn't it be better to pay more attention to areas that for whatever reason have low university participation rates, even if quirks of the Index of Education and Occupation formula give them SES ratings that disqualify them from low-SES rewards?
'Deaths of despair' are rising in Australia, particularly among middle-aged men.
About 65,000 fewer Australians had health insurance in December 2018 compared to December 2017.
read more Young Australians continue to turn away from private health insurance