July 12 2017 By business reporter Michael Janda for ABC News. Australians continue to go backwards on many measures of income and wellbeing as high immigration rates see the nation's weak economic…
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Why a population of, say, 15 million makes sense for Australia
July 11 2017 By Peter Martin, James Ward, and Paul Sutton for The Conversation. Population growth has profound impacts on Australian life, and sorting myths from facts can be difficult.…
It’s official. Regular Australians are getting poorer
By Alan Austin for The New Daily. Of all the measures of wellbeing of Australia’s workers and families, one has reliably increased over the decades. That is despite droughts, floods, recessions,…
Dick Smith unleashes: ‘Aldi’s greed is unlimited’
NOVEMBER 9, 2016 10:37AM Frank Chung for news.com.au DICK Smith has launched an extraordinary attack on Aldi, accusing the “greedy” and “ruthless” discount retailer of siphoning “hundreds of millions of dollars” to…
Bloom and boom: how babies and migrants have contributed to Australia’s population growth
July 4, 2017 6.09am AEST Tom Wilson, Principal Research Fellow, Charles Darwin University for The Conversation. Population growth has profound impacts on Australian life, and sorting myths from facts can…
Australia doesn’t have a population policy – why?
July 3, 2017 6.12am AEST By Liz Allen Demographer, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University for The Conversation Population growth has profound impacts on Australian life,…
The fallacy of endless economic growth: What economists around the world get wrong about the future.
CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM MAY 16, 2017 The idea that economic growth can continue forever on a finite planet is the unifying faith of industrial civilization. That it is nonsensical in the…
Documentary – Inequality for All
Inequality for All is a 2013 documentary film directed by Jacob Kornbluth. The film examines widening income inequality in the United States. The film is presented by American economist, author…