The Australian unemployment rate has fallen for the sixth consecutive month, down to 5.5 percent between March and April, after the JobKeeper wage subsidy ended. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures show that the jobless rate is now just 0.2 percent above the unemployment figures from start of the pandemic and 2 percent lower…

Australia’s stagnant population growth is the biggest bottleneck on long-term economic recovery, the property industry says. “The Government has overseen a remarkable economic rebound, but the budget papers reveal that population growth will quickly become an anchor for our economy,” Property Council of Australia chief executive Ken Morrison said. Population growth is at around 0.1…

Wages growth needs to be sustainably above three percent before the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) considers raising official interest rates, says RBA governor Philip Lowe. In his speech to The Australian Financial Review’s (AFR) business summit, the governor disagreed with market expectation for a cash rate increase late next year and then again in…