Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.
This week: has the Reserve Bank of Australia made the right call about a neutral inflation rate? Also questions...
More parents are choosing to delay their child starting school, especially boys.ShutterstockIn Australia, the rate at which parents are delaying their children’s entry into school appears to be increasing. My research, undertaken with Professor Sue Walker, has indicated that in Queensland, rates of delayed entry to state schools increased...
The Australian drugs regulator is overhauling the health claims made by suppliers of complementary medicines, including homeopathic therapies. And some curious options are up for discussion.from www.shutterstock.comAustralia’s drugs regulator seems to be endorsing pseudoscientific claims about homeopathy and traditional Chinese medicine as...
The recent decision by Australia’s big two supermarkets to phase out free single-use plastic bags within a year is just the latest development in a debate that has been rumbling for decades.
State governments in Queensland and New South Wales have canvassed the idea, which has been implemented right across the retail sector in South Australia...
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As the calendar pushes towards the end of the year, business leaders across Australia begin evalua...
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