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Budget 2020-21: Key Portfolio Measures
6 October 2020 On this page: Defence, Foreign Affairs, Trade, Home Affairs and Attorney-General Health, Families and Social Services Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities Communications…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights Australian Bureau of Statistics data has this week revealed the unemployment rate has risen to 7.4 per cent for June, up from 7.1 per…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights The RBA kept interest rates at 0.25 per cent. Governor Philip Lowe said the economy is going through a “very difficult period”. Labor candidate…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights The latest Newspoll has the Coalition in front of Labor 51-49 on a two-party preferred basis, while PM Scott Morrison’s personal approval rating has…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Australia will suffer a GDP contraction of 4.5 per cent, down from an April prediction of 6.7 per…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights Federal Parliament resumed this week, with the Government progressing its financial services legislative agenda. Australia’s unemployment rate reached 7.1 per cent in May, with…
Focus on: National Federation Reform
Last month PM Scott Morrison secured the support of state and territory leaders to overhaul intergovernmental relations with the formation of the new National Federation…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights Federal Parliament returned this week and will sit again next week. National Cabinet met again today to discuss border closures. The World Bank has…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights Treasurer Josh Frydenberg confirmed Australia is in recession, with the first quarter of negative growth in nine years recorded in the March quarter. The…
Focus on: employee engagement in the age of COVID-19
Prior to the great quarantine of 2020, working from home arrangements held some novelty. Nowadays, after months of working from home, office workers will tell…