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Stimulus stutters amid record unemployment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... incomes as will any tapering of the JobKeeper program that is announced next week." An announcement on JobKeeper from Prime Minister Scott Morrison is expected next week. Also scheduled to end soon was the temporarily doubled JobSeeker payment. Advocacy ...

Chief economist update: Stop right now, thank you very much

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
"The Australian economy is fighting back." Prime Minister Scott Morrison's declaration referring to the bounce back in the Australian labour market wouldn't have rung hollow had it not been for the second wave in Victoria - the country's ...

Morrison's legacy will be retirement poverty: ACTU

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... Australian Council of Trade Unions has slammed the government's early release of superannuation program, saying that Prime Minister Scott Morrison's legacy will be a wave of retirement poverty. Following the second round of early release withdrawals ...

Chief economist update: BOJ takes breather on stimulus sprint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... trillion). These, along with the government's fiscal stimulus and the re-opening of the economy - following Prime Minister Shinzo's lifting of Japan's state of emergency on May 25 - have produced some green shoots. This is underscored by ...

ATO extends WFH deductions

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... expenses, electricity and gas, and the depreciation in value of equipment and furniture used whilst working from home. Minister for housing and assistant treasurer Michael Sukkar welcomed the extension of the temporary arrangements, which he said, would ...

Chief economist update: We're all Victorians now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... (news.com.au). The Australian Federal government is also expected implement spending measures in aid of Victoria. For as Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared, "We're all Melburnians now when it comes to the challenges we face... We're all Victorians ...

Chief economist update: The post-pandemic problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... haven't seen this sort of thing in Australia since the end of the first World War..." This was how Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the coronavirus outbreak shortly after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it a pandemic ...

Chief economist update: The All Ords' ups, downs and ups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
It seemed so long ago and far away now but it was only a year ago that the All Ordinaries index broke above its all-time high recorded in 2007 before climbing to a new peak in February this year. The mood was good: The US and China have reached a trade ...

Chief economist update: Premature easing will cost more lives, more rupiahs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... movers in the fight against containing the spread of infection from the coronavirus pandemic. On March 24, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered one of the strictest lockdowns of any country in the world, warning that: "If we don't manage these ...

Chief economist update: Still the best and better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... Melbourne "unless they have to" while indicating that Victorians are not welcome north of the border. As Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt put it: "We're operating as one single country... Therefore we're taking it very seriously and we are giving ...