Australian Economy

In 2019, Dr Gerd Schroeder-Turk – Murdoch University’s only academic representative on the Senate (the University’s highest governing body) – appeared on ABC’s Four Corners and criticised Murdoch’s international student entry and teaching standards, which drove a 92% surge in international students numbers between 2017 and 2018.

NSW Health has reported another 345 new local COVID infections in the past 24 hours: NSW recorded 345 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.

The Grattan Institute’s Transport and Cities Program Director, Marion Terrill, has lashed the Dan Andrews Victorian Government’s botched West Gate Tunnel Project.

Delta kills the jobs boom.

SEEK has released its July job ads survey, which reports a heavy monthly fall in job advertisements owing to lockdowns: OVERVIEW OF JULY 2021: STATE OF THE NATION: Lockdowns and restrictions impacted national job ad volumes in July; SEEK saw a 4.1% decline month-on-month (m/m).

The Australian’s resident edu-migration lobby mouthpiece, Tim Dodd, has penned another puff piece calling on Australia’s universities to better look after international students: “In 2014 education exports were worth $19.8bn.

NSW Health reported another 344 local COVID cases over the past 24 hours: NSW recorded 344 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.

Documents obtained via freedom of information laws show that the federal government has recovered some $5.3 million worth of ‘outcome payments’ to privatised employment services providers since 2015.

The latest Property Council survey of office occupancy reveals that Melbourne was running at just 12% of workers in offices in July, down from 26% in June, as the city was plunged into its fifth and then sixth lockdown.

Hopes for Melbourne exiting lockdown as scheduled on Thursday midnight have been dashed after the state recorded another 20 local COVID infections over the past 24 hours: Reported yesterday: 20 new local cases and no new cases acquired overseas.

The hypocrisy of the Morrison Government on ‘mutual obligations’ is on display again, with over 11,000 welfare recipients sent letters saying they owe money because they were overpaid a combined $32 million due to the JobKeeper scheme.

Via NAB: The survey continues to show widespread impacts of lockdowns.

The Morrison Government has signaled loud and clear that it will reboot mass immigration at the earliest opportunity.

The Victorian Government has recorded another 20 locally acquired COVID cases over the past 24 hours, 15 of which were infectious in the community: Reported yesterday: 20 new local cases and no new cases acquired overseas.

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) latest monthly statement included an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the commercial property sector.

Roy Morgan Research has released its unemployment estimates for July, with the nation’s unemployment rate rising 0.3% to 9.7% following a 28,000 increase in the number of people unemployed.

NSW Health has reported another 283 COVID cases over the past 24 hours to go alongside the 319 recorded on Saturday and the 262 recorded on Sunday: NSW recorded 283 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.

Victoria has recorded another 11 new locally acquired COVID cases over the past 24 hours to go alongside the 29 cases recorded on Saturday and the 11 recorded on Sunday: According to the DHS, “the 11 new locally-acquired cases are all linked, and one has been in quarantine throughout their infectious period”.

A new Victorian Auditor-General report has found that multibillion-dollar projects are being built on the back of “fragmented planning” and secrecy, which is wasting taxpayer dollars: A new probe by the Victorian Auditor-General reveals multibillion-dollar projects are being built on the back of fragmented planning.