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MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 11:20 am on May 5, 2021 | 26 comments The Guardian’s economics poster boy, Greg Jericho, has written another article chock full of shiny charts attacking the federal government’s inability to drive unemployment down and wage growth up. Jericho’s key points are as follows: “We’ve had years of absurd budget projections about wages growth that never came true” because the Treasury’s assumed natural rate of unemployment (5%) was far too ...

Last modified on Wed 5 May 2021 17.23 EDT Good morning. Contact tracers in NSW are scrambling to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the community, Queensland police face scrutiny over domestic violence inaction, and the Guardian marks its 200th birthday. That, and more aplenty in Thursday’s morning mail. NSW is bracing for more cases of community transmission after a man who tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday has health authorities concerned due to his level of activity while potentiall...

Last modified on Mon 3 May 2021 16.53 EDT Good morning. The government’s India travel ban is facing a significant backlash, including within the Coalition’s ranks, as India’s coronavirus outbreak continues to see record numbers of infections, and health services remain unable to cope with shortages of vaccines and oxygen. the “extreme” and “heavy-handed” decision to criminalise returning to Australia from Covid-ravaged India. The Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells said:...

Last modified on Wed 28 Apr 2021 16.56 EDT Good morning. India’s Covid nightmare continues to dominate the headlines, while Josh Frydenberg promises more budgetary stimulus, and a legend of the moon landing dies. These stories and much more, in Thursday’s morning mail. India’s official death toll from the coronavirus has passed 200,000 after its worst day yet of the pandemic – recording 360,960 new cases, and with 3,293 deaths reported. The capital, Delhi, remains under lock...

Last modified on Wed 21 Apr 2021 17.04 EDT Good morning. Covid-19 dominates the headlines both domestically and internationally this Thursday, while in the United States the outpouring of emotion continues following the Derek Chauvin murder conviction. Health experts have backed a proposal by hardware company Bunnings to set up vaccination hubs in store carparks, in a bid to assist the federal government’s vaccine rollout. Epidemiologist Hassan Vally says mass vaccination centres could help �...

Last modified on Mon 12 Apr 2021 17.05 EDT Good morning. The slow Covid vaccination program has left many Australians unimpressed, judging by the latest Guardian Essential Poll. More than half of Australians think the Covid vaccine rollout is too slow, according to the latest Guardian essential poll. The latest survey suggests the government is in a vulnerable political position as it attempts to recalibrate the vaccination program. Scott Morrison’s approval rating hit its lowest level i...

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 9:20 am on March 11, 2021 | 45 comments Readers will know that MB refers to the contemporary left as “fake”. The reason why is that it has lost touch with its class warfare underpinnings and focuses instead upon identity politics. The change is so dramatic, and the social policy fixation so strong, that often this “fake” left has pursued the latter to the detriment of the former, making class warfare outcomes worse for workers. One such ca...

Last modified on Wed 10 Mar 2021 15.27 EST Ructions at Buckingham Palace fuel republican movements, Australia’s vaccine timeline is disputed, and Congress has passed a record emergency package. Those are the lead stories, this Thursday 11 March. The Australian Medical Association has contradicted the federal government’s claims that its Covid-19 vaccination targets are “on track”, suggesting that the “very ambitious” goal of having all Australians vaccinated by October should be rev...

Australian national accounts data to provide rationale for deepening cuts The latest Australian national accounts figures, showing a record rise in gross domestic product (GDP) over the last two quarters of 2020, have been hailed as sign that the economy has turned the corner and is now powering out of the recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. But closer analysis of the data, when combined with the significant slowing of the economy before the pandemic struck, shows this to be far from th...

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