Justin has a PhD in Economics and over 20 years of experience in applied economic, policy and investment analysis with the WA Treasury and AECOM in Perth, and Aletheia Capital in Hong Kong.
Housing
According to this tweet (usual caveats apply), a new Deutsche Bank report implied that Australia’s housing crisis is about to get much, much worse: “[W]e estimate that net new migration will be around 530,000 for the financial year 2022-23, but only around 180,000 dwellings will be
Gender
I’m a bit late to the party but for those still not aware, Harvard’s Claudia Goldin won this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics for her work on women’s labour market outcomes. The Nobel Committee provided a very good press release; a 7-page ‘popular economics’ brief; as
Climate change
The Treasury’s latest Intergenerational Report has made headlines for the following claim: “The direct impacts of higher temperatures on how we work are just one of the channels through which climate change will impact labour productivity, but one which could be significant. If global temperatures were to increase by
Housing
National Cabinet – where Australia’s States and federal government get together to try to agree on national policy – reached an agreement this week to: Here’s a link to the full policy reveal, which explains that the 1.2 million target is really just an increase of 200,000 over