Media Releases

2008

• Slower growth forecasted but no recession in sight
• Moderate wage expectations provide room for a loosening in monetary policy
• Steep fall in crude oil prices drives significant decline in inflationary expectations in August 2008
• Study finds Innovation in Australian industry tapering off
• Fuel, rent and food pricing pressures are maintaining high inflationary expectations
• Survey finds 50 per cent growth in household wealth in four year period
• Outlook for labour remains gloomy
• Report shows climate of frugality is permeating the economy
• June median expected inflation figure of 5.9 per cent highest since 1993
• High inflation expected to continue
• Improving the working lives of doctors
• Healthy labour market keeps wages growth robust
• Budget fails to ease consumer inflationary expectations
• Report predicts slowing of economic activity

2007

• Australian Economic Review - December 2007
• When will the kids move out?
• It's easy to get rich
• Education Epidemic
• 'Bad' jobs often lead to 'better' jobs
• Our Schools... Our Future Conference
• Housing Affordability in Australia
• New research delves into Australia's ongoing medical workforce shortages
• Australian Economic Review - September 2007
• Economists discuss the Australian economy
• Casual employment leads to permanent employment in the future
• Working class workers wanting to work longer hours
• Retirement: men think about the money; women think about the family
• Females more satisfied in the workplace
• 2007 HILDA Conference
• Workers lack time to enjoy their income
• Wages report shows dramatic increase
• Implications of sport economics in Australia
• Innovation Index of Australian Industry - launched today
• Climate change policies misguided
• Economic implications of climate change
• Steve Sedgwick to head key University of Melbourne economic/social research think-tank
• Australian Economic Review - March 2007
• Youths on income support no less happy
• Healthy? You're more likely to earn more
• New research delves into Australia's ongoing medical workforce shortages
• Wages growth decelerates this month

2006

• Women rare among long hours workers
• Australian Economic Review - December 2006
• Wages growth accelerates in November
• Melbourne experts take the skills shortage debate to Canberra
• High interest rates kill young, innovative companies
• Making the Boom Pay Conference - Presentations and Papers
• Is Australia's resources boom manageable or will it end in tears?
• Unhappy with working hours? You'll probably be happier next year
• Who is reliant on the welfare system?
• Wages rising... for some
• Welfare recipients still living below the poverty line
• Shoppers say 'yes' to Aussie-made or home-brand groceries, 'no' to eco-safe: study
• Health experts gather in Canberra to address Australia’s health care system reforms
• Australian Economic Review - March 2006
• Reforming the health care system: experts lay out Australia's options

2005

• Doctors getting more money, patients getting fewer services
• Australian economy is steady, low risks of inflation rising
• Public private partnerships - winners and losers
• Finding opportunity to fight poverty
• University of Melbourne and ANU tie for first place for second year running
• More people in paid work under new tax reform proposals
• Smoking bans discourage smoking, but not for youth
• Academic gives IR reforms a C-
• Underemployed are suffering, new report shows
• Experts to discuss HILDA Survey results
• Economic report suggests turnaround in activity
• Invitation to hear Australia's economic forecast
• Innovation the key to productivity growth
• Consumer culture generates longer working hours
• Leading economist criticises unemployment rate
• Consumer Expectations
• Labour force participation and the short term economic outlook
• Mercer-Melbourne Institute Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends
• Where will our workers come from?
• Workplace relations reform
• Researchers uncover the inequalities of Aussie wealth
• Labor tax cuts more generous but you'll have to be patient
• Patent office disharmony
• Melbourne Institute Indicators
• Younger companies more innovative
• Stuck on Welfare
• Pre-budget assessment of the economy and the reform agenda
• Dawkins passes the baton to Freebairn
• Making Schools Better
• Uncertainty over future of NZ government debt
• At liberty to be in debt
• The economic and social outlook for Australia
• Welfare recipients below the poverty line