COVID-19 is costing the Australian economy billions in lost worker productivity and healthcare spending. The pandemic may be moving into the endemic phase but the virus is still wreaking havoc on the health of the population and the economy. Research commissioned by pharmaceutical company MSD Australia has...
Australians are working more than ever to make ends meet but that’s not necessarily translating into extra goods and services. The mining sector led a two per cent fall in labour productivity growth in the June quarter as highlighted in a report from a national economic...
Queensland will be one of the world’s hardest hit coal regions, after China’s Shanxi and Indonesia’s East Kalimantan, a global report on the future of the sector shows. Nearly half a million coal miners are expected to lose their jobs by 2035 as old mines are...
The majority of Australians who pack a bag of clothes for donation take months before actually taking it to a charity shop, with goods instead left languishing in cars or bedrooms for weeks on end. That’s according to the latest Cost of Giving report from the...
Airbnb has called for a contentious Victorian tax on short stays to be expanded to all accommodation bookings, including city hotels. The state government last month announced an Australian-first, statewide levy on short-stay providers like Airbnb and Stayz. The consumer-facing 7.5 per cent levy is slated to...
More than one million Australian households will be powered by one of the world’s largest battery systems after the government approved a new renewable energy hub. The battery will be located in Melbourne suburb of Plumpton, where it will store wind, hydro and solar energy from...