The results of the Canberra Times mini-survey are in, and you can read them by clicking on the attached graphic.
Here's today's report:
The ACT will survive its present downturn, returning to economic strength in the year ahead, according to a survey of eight leading forecasters conducted by the Canberra Times.
But they expect the Australian economy as a whole to slow and both ACT and national
Labour market specialist and all-round macroeconomist Barry Hughes used to advise the former Treasurer Paul Keating and several state Labor Premiers.
He was part of the 1983 decision to float the Australian dollar, among many things other things. A decade before that he tutored me in economics.
He served on the Keating government's Working Nation inquiry which in the early 1990s recommended
Some people think this is a disaster.
Heat has come out of the Australian jobs market for the first time in nearly two years, raising the prospect that the Reserve Bank's program of interest rate rises is having the desired effect.
News yesterday that the number of Australians in jobs had dipped for the first time in 19 months sent the Australian dollar diving almost one complete US cent as
...if nowhere else.
The ACT is officially Australia’s jobs paradise – the only state or territory in which there are more jobs on offer than people available to fill them.
The latest job vacancy figures released by the Bureau of Statistics show there were five jobs on offer for each four Canberra residents unemployed in May – making the ACT by far the tightest labour market in the country.
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Who needs evidence about jobs, spending, prices?
Not us. Not now.
What the Canberra Times is able to report about the state of Australia's jobs market is about to shrink.
Inside today's paper we report that the ACT remains the only state or territory whose vacant jobs outnumber the people wanting them.
The ACT literally has over-full employment.
But we won't be able to report that for much
Currently in my profession, the schools putting on a performance of Les Miserables (which looks sexy incidentally) and a few days ago a photographer came around to snap a bunch of top quality shots for people's personal use. Thankfully, he got one that will probably front cover any future profile I need to use: Read more »
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