How close is Australia to a recession? | The enterprise | ABC News

Australia’s economy barely grew in the first three months of 2024 and outside of the pandemic, it expanded at the slowest annual rate since the 1990s recession. GDP per capita fell for the fifth consecutive quarter but record population expansion is keeping Australia out of recession. The Treasurer Jim Chalmers blamed the weak expansion on … Read more

How to hide a recession | The company | ABC News

2023 has been a year of debt charge rate hikes, rising house prices and unemployment at near 50-year lows. There’s been a change of the guard at the Reserve economic organization, which has declared inflation public enemy number one. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE The challenge for the new RBA governor Michele Bullock is not to tip the … Read more