Homes Alone: despite record rates, Australia lags world as housing crisis grips
Thinking of building a new house? Well, you are among millions worldwide doing exactly that right now. But you are ...
Alan Austin
Alan Austin is a freelance journalist with interests in news media, religious affairs and economic and social issues.
Budget repair well under way? Not so fast Josh Frydenberg
The federal Government is desperate to depict the 2018-19 budget finalised on Thursday as evidence of a sound ...
Australia a classic study in how not to build a productive economy
Productivity has tanked under this Government and Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, is floundering. Result? Australia is ...
Corporate profits and government spending boom while wages and economy languish
The supreme irony of the latest, listless GDP data is that private demand has been propped up by "brisk" ...
In supporting jobless, Australia comes a stone cold, motherless last
Another global agency has exposed Australia as bringing up the rear in care for the disadvantaged. Alan Austin ...
Propaganda Prescription: how Australia can get its economic mojo back
The Liberal Party, its ideological ally the IPA and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp have done a remarkable job of ...
Australia falls to all-time OECD low on jobs but $A rallies against Zambian kwacha
Australia’s drift down the global league ladder continues, on a range of metrics. A sobering account of how ...
While global household incomes grow thanks to the boom, here’s why ours keep falling
When it comes to household income, Australians continue to miss out on the current boom being shared elsewhere in ...
How to win on wages: lessons from Australia and abroad
This month's national accounts show wages have slumped to the lowest on record. Australia is now in record low ...
What global economic headwinds, Mathias?
It's not global headwinds causing Australia's economy to tank. As Alan Austin argues, we should be catching the ...
Data Dumped: it’s all bad news for the Australian economy
If Prime Minister Scott Morrison went to the election in May to beat potentially bad economic news, it was an ...
Fact check: Employment in Australia is worse than you think
In case RMIT/ABC Fact Check have missed this, Alan Austin analyses the facts and refutes the claims by the ...
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