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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…
Focus on: listed entities
With federal and state governments progressively re-opening the Australian economy, the share market has responded positively having now risen 31.8 per cent off its low…
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…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights Leaders will meet today to discuss making National Cabinet permanent going forward. News Corp announced it will cease printing 112 suburban and regional mastheads,…