• Australia’s economic (mini) miracle

    John Quiggin     |      March 22, 2025

    Despite COVID and the current cost of living crisis, the most striking feature of the Australian economy in the 21st century has been the exceptionally long period of fairly steady, though not rapid, economic growth.

  • The good, the bad and the uncertain

    Luke Hartigan     |      December 20, 2024

    The Australian economy has had a tough few years, but while there could be brighter days ahead, potential clouds are gathering on the horizon.

  • Australia’s economy strategy in Southeast Asia

    Teck Chi Wong     |      July 14, 2024

    Economic engagement was a key focus at the 2024 ASEAN-Australia Special Summit, and there has been some serious money being put on the table by the Australian Government to help “derisk” private sector investment in Southeast Asia.

  • The history and future of economic reform

    Jenny Gordon     |      January 1, 2024

    The reforms of the Hawke and Keating governments helped revitalise the Australian economy but the declining role of government in the production of goods and services and a generally light-handed approach to regulation have failed to arrest a decline in competition and economic dynamism in recent years.

  • Economic ups and downs

    Richard Holden     |      May 23, 2021

    Australia’s official unemployment rate falling to 5.5% is enough to make a treasurer dance but we shouldn’t get too carried away.

  • The novel coronavirus requires novel economic solutions

    Shiro Armstrong     |      April 14, 2020

    The economic priority for governments today is to keep the economy ticking over, to keep businesses and their employees tied together, to avoid a deeper downturn that will create huge numbers of unemployed and position for a sharp recovery.

  • Coronavirus and the death of Xi’s ‘China Dream’

    Michael Shoebridge     |      February 29, 2020

    Globalisation was already ill and Coronavirus is killing both it and Xi Jinping’s ‘China Dream’. That’s big news for Australia’s economy and security in the future.

  • Bleak economic prospects for the New Year

    Kate Newton     |      December 7, 2019

    Weak GDP growth and the US-China trade dispute remain prominent economic challenges for 2020 according to UNSW’s Professor Richard Holden.