The local and international economies aren’t as bad as many claim, and the RBA should hold off on cutting rates.
Employment
Political snippets: No surprises in New Hampshire
Richard Farmer’s chunky bits include: US orange juice with a special new ingredient (fungicide), Mitt Romney’s “no surprises here” victory in New Hampshire and gloomy news for job seekers.
Mining industry surges, but we’re becoming a service economy
While the resources boom creates thousands of mining jobs, it is the services industries that are driving the biggest change in our workforce.
Is the jobs forum a summit in search of a problem?
Employers and unions are unlikely to have much of a dialogue at the jobs forum in a few weeks.
Political snippets: Labor’s problem is the messenger, not the message
Perhaps the last thing the Government should be doing is persuading as many networks as possible to give her peak hour viewing on the most watched television night of the week.
Employment grows, and not just in the mining states
The “patchwork economy” isn’t much in evidence in today’s employment data.
Political snippets: A further sign of slow growth
More evidence from the Australian Bureau of Statistics this morning that economic growth is less than the Treasury and Reserve Bank experts had expected.
Political snippets: Where’s the jobs boom?
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures out this morning give no indication of the employment boom that some economists are keen to predict will soon fan an inflationary fire.
Political snippets: Australia’s economic future looking not too bad
When you look at the figures for the total number of hours worked in the employment figures released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics you see the picture was not nearly as gloomy as the commentators this morning suggest.
Employment: how will Gillard put Australia to work?
Julia Gillard wants Australians to go back to work, using the budget to tackle a worsening skills shortage through training and apprenticeships.
Our fiscal props: financial services and mining
Quick - what’s the biggest sector of the Australian economy? The answer reveals a lot about what’s happened since 2001, and what will happen in the next recession.
Australia’s mixed economy — why health and education reform matters
When it comes to employment, Australia’s is a mixed economy dominated by one employer — the state.
Political snippets: Jobs not quite keeping pace
An increase in part-time employment of 32,000 in January as reported today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics just failed to be enough to prevent the number of people unemployed increasing by 8900 people to 606,500.
Political snippets: Pay attention to the trend
A salutary reminder to pundits like me to pay attention to the trend figures produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for things like the employment and unemployment numbers.
Political snippets: Pen pushers needed more than miners
Some good news on the employment front this morning in figures on Job Vacancies from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Perhaps the biggest surprise is where the extra jobs are coming from.
Political snippets: Mamil makes a rare UK appearance
As in Tony Abbott is a mamil — the middle-aged man in Lycra.
The real economy isn’t what you expect
Our workforce has changed dramatically in the past 25 years and its evolution continues in some surprising areas.
It’s amateur hour at Tony’s house
Four days into the federal election campaign and IR is the topic of the day. But it seems that Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and his party have been caught on the hop, appearing like amateurs and willing to give up a generational-long commitment by the Liberal Party to labour market reform, writes Paul Kelly.
Colless: The cost of jobs at any price
Jobs, jobs, jobs: it’s been Rudd’s mantra ever since the GFC hit and it explains the insulation debacle and the BER scheme. Except its an unrealistic and phoney concept, writes Malcolm Colless.
Rudd overpromised on indigenous unemployment
Tthe Australian government might have exacerbated the expansion of the Indigenous unemployment gap, report Professor Jon Altman and Dr Nicholas Biddle.
Political snippets: When old leaders re-enter the political fold
Yet another appearance for the week by an old political leader, as Mark Latham makes a mockery of his old Labor Party’s My School website. That and more in today’s Chunky Briefs.
You 2.0: Forbes‘ guide to reinventing yourself
Finally ready to ditch the 9-5er for the job you’ve always dreamed of? Forbes has put together a great guide to reinventing yourself and your career, with plenty of feel-good first-hand success stories.
Jobs and debt for everybody!
The dramatic fall in Australian productivity is the dark side of the strength of our labour market. It’s also the mirror image of what’s going on in the United States.
A Christmas present from the RBA: third month of employment growth
As we close in on the end of 2009, the year that was almost the year from hell, a third month of solid employment growth has added to the flow of strongly positive data about the economy.
Job ad data points to recovery in labour market
The jobs market continues to recover, with the November job ads series from ANZ indicating a strong rise in part-time employment, and the total number of job advertisements increasing by 1.6%
