PROGRESS 2050: Toward a prosperous future for all Australians
The Productivity Commission’s Shifting the dial report provides a road map to higher living standards “that should be professed by all levels of government and the Australian people over many years,” Federal Treasurer, the Hon. Scott Morrison said when launching the report at a CEDA event in Canberra.
25/10/2017
Queensland’s labour market has shown signs of a turnaround, but CEDA Senior Economist Andrew Barker says there are structural reasons to expect that skill shortages will persist. In an address in Brisbane on Thursday, Mr Barker said that although unemployment is low, it has begun to creep up in recent months.
Australia has “remarkably dodged a bullet” on the economic impacts of COVID-19, but the economy will almost certainly look different on the other side of the pandemic, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told an audience at CEDA’s 2021 State of the Nation forum.
South Australian Premier, the Hon. Steven Marshall told CEDA’s Economic and Political Overview (EPO) event in Adelaide that a new sense of confidence is permeating the entire state.
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