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We’re over the hump: cost-of-living crunch has peaked, charts show

It’s the news we’ve all been waiting for: Australia’s cost-of-living squeeze is finally easing as fewer consumers report they are under acute...

29.10.2024 10

WA Today

Matt Wade

We’re over the hump: cost-of-living crunch has peaked, charts show

It’s the news we’ve all been waiting for: Australia’s cost-of-living squeeze is finally easing as fewer consumers report they are under acute...

29.10.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

We’re over the hump: cost-of-living crunch has peaked, charts show

It’s the news we’ve all been waiting for: Australia’s cost-of-living squeeze is finally easing as fewer consumers report they are under acute...

29.10.2024 10

The Age

Matt Wade

We’re over the hump: cost-of-living crunch has peaked, charts show

It’s the news we’ve all been waiting for: Australia’s cost-of-living squeeze is finally easing as fewer consumers report they are under acute...

29.10.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

When money’s tight, we can’t afford to worry about our costliest threat

When you ask Australians to name their biggest worries, there’s normally a long list of grumbles ranging from the economy to healthcare, housing,...

15.10.2024 9

WA Today

Matt Wade

When money’s tight, we can’t afford to worry about our costliest threat

When you ask Australians to name their biggest worries, there’s normally a long list of grumbles ranging from the economy to healthcare, housing,...

15.10.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

When money’s tight, we can’t afford to worry about our costliest threat

When you ask Australians to name their biggest worries, there’s normally a long list of grumbles ranging from the economy to healthcare, housing,...

15.10.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

When money’s tight, we can’t afford to worry about our costliest threat

When you ask Australians to name their biggest worries, there’s normally a long list of grumbles ranging from the economy to healthcare, housing,...

15.10.2024 9

The Age

Matt Wade

How crazy house prices and an ageing population are creating ‘tombstone suburbs’

There’s something strange going on in the best-located suburbs of our biggest cities. As the national population surges, they are shrinking. In...

08.10.2024 7

WA Today

Matt Wade

How crazy house prices and an ageing population are creating ‘tombstone suburbs’

There’s something strange going on in the best-located suburbs of our biggest cities. As the national population surges, they are shrinking. In...

08.10.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

How crazy house prices and an ageing population are creating ‘tombstone suburbs’

There’s something strange going on in the best-located suburbs of our biggest cities. As the national population surges, they are shrinking. In...

08.10.2024 6

The Age

Matt Wade

How crazy house prices and an ageing population are creating ‘tombstone suburbs’

There’s something strange going on in the best-located suburbs of our biggest cities. As the national population surges, they are shrinking. In...

08.10.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

Why this unhealthy trend may become an ill wind for Medicare

During 25 years reporting about economics I’ve learnt one indicator tells you more than any other about a nation’s welfare: longevity. Show me a...

01.10.2024 9

WA Today

Matt Wade

Why this unhealthy trend may become an ill wind for Medicare

During 25 years reporting about economics I’ve learnt one indicator tells you more than any other about a nation’s welfare: longevity. Show me a...

01.10.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Why this unhealthy trend may become an ill wind for Medicare

During 25 years reporting about economics I’ve learnt one indicator tells you more than any other about a nation’s welfare: longevity. Show me a...

01.10.2024 10

The Age

Matt Wade

Why this unhealthy trend may become an ill wind for Medicare

During 25 years reporting about economics I’ve learnt one indicator tells you more than any other about a nation’s welfare: longevity. Show me a...

01.10.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

The hidden downside to Sydney’s love affair with shiny new trains

A long infrastructure boom has delivered Sydney state-of-the-art roads, metros and light rail services. But influential NSW Productivity and Equality...

10.09.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

What will happen to your mortgage if ‘tariff man’ Trump wins the White House

“I am a tariff man.” That’s how then US President Donald Trump described himself in 2018 after he’d slapped tariffs and other trade...

27.08.2024 10

WA Today

Matt Wade

What will happen to your mortgage if ‘tariff man’ Trump wins the White House

“I am a tariff man.” That’s how then US President Donald Trump described himself in 2018 after he’d slapped tariffs and other trade...

27.08.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

What will happen to your mortgage if ‘tariff man’ Trump wins the White House

“I am a tariff man.” That’s how then US President Donald Trump described himself in 2018 after he’d slapped tariffs and other trade...

27.08.2024 10

The Age

Matt Wade

What will happen to your mortgage if ‘tariff man’ Trump wins the White House

“I am a tariff man.” That’s how then US President Donald Trump described himself in 2018 after he’d slapped tariffs and other trade...

27.08.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

The shocking figure that reveals the depth of Sydney’s housing crisis

The number of building company failures in NSW has almost trebled over the past three years, hampering the sector’s capacity to meet ambitious...

14.08.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

How new metro line links Sydneysiders to the rest of the globe

Three dynamic job hubs – the CBD, North Sydney and Macquarie Park – will be better connected by Sydney’s new metro, supercharging the city’s...

28.07.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Light rail on Broadway, start-ups and a green hub: City of Sydney’s vision for 2035 revealed

Extending Sydney’s light rail along Broadway, supporting start-ups, enhancing the night-time economy and accelerating the transition to greener...

22.07.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

The NSW budget explained in five charts

Daniel Mookhey’s second budget begins on a downbeat note. “The people of NSW are doing it tough,” says the opening line. But it’s not all...

18.06.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

We were told the state’s finances were a wreck. The budget papers show something very different

Since Daniel Mookhey became treasurer last year he’s made a lot of the “severe challenges” facing the state’s finances. The gloomy tone...

18.06.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

The truth about immigration and Sydney’s housing crisis

Sydney’s median house price just topped $1.6 million for the first time, rental vacancies are at all-time lows and opinion polls show deep voter...

24.05.2024 60

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Rise of the tombstone suburb: Wealthy Sydney areas where deaths outnumber births

The share of Sydney suburbs where deaths outnumber births has almost trebled in the past five years as the effects of population ageing reshapes...

23.04.2024 70

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

The chart that shows how happy you are, just as long as you’re old enough

There hasn’t been much room for good news lately, so you might have missed the stellar month Australia’s had in some key global rankings. In...

16.04.2024 10

WA Today

Matt Wade

The chart that shows how happy you are, just as long as you’re old enough

There hasn’t been much room for good news lately, so you might have missed the stellar month Australia’s had in some key global rankings. In...

16.04.2024 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

The chart that shows how happy you are, just as long as you’re old enough

There hasn’t been much room for good news lately, so you might have missed the stellar month Australia’s had in some key global rankings. In...

16.04.2024 30

The Age

Matt Wade

The chart that shows how happy you are, just as long as you’re old enough

There hasn’t been much room for good news lately, so you might have missed the stellar month Australia’s had in some key global rankings. In...

16.04.2024 20

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

Costly childcare’s a slippery slope. So why haven’t we learnt?

There’s a curious twist to Australia’s education system: the youngest participants are the most exposed to market forces. While for-profit...

09.04.2024 10

WA Today

Matt Wade

Costly childcare’s a slippery slope. So why haven’t we learnt?

There’s a curious twist to Australia’s education system: the youngest participants are the most exposed to market forces. While for-profit...

09.04.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

Costly childcare’s a slippery slope. So why haven’t we learnt?

There’s a curious twist to Australia’s education system: the youngest participants are the most exposed to market forces. While for-profit...

09.04.2024 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Costly childcare’s a slippery slope. So why haven’t we learnt?

There’s a curious twist to Australia’s education system: the youngest participants are the most exposed to market forces. While for-profit...

09.04.2024 60

The Age

Matt Wade

Which Sydney suburbs are bearing the brunt of the population surge?

Huge disparities in population growth have emerged across Sydney as numbers spiral higher in some suburbs but remain well below pre-COVID levels in...

28.03.2024 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Do planning rules really affect house prices? The answer is clear

Big reforms always provoke strongly competing claims. The current debate about housing affordability is no different. Greens housing spokesman Max...

26.03.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

How to fix the housing crisis? Let’s start with this defacto tax on divorce

In the late 1980s, when Paul Keating was pushing reforms to make Australia more competitive he famously quipped that if you walked into any pet shop...

19.03.2024 10

WA Today

Matt Wade

How to fix the housing crisis? Let’s start with this defacto tax on divorce

In the late 1980s, when Paul Keating was pushing reforms to make Australia more competitive he famously quipped that if you walked into any pet shop...

19.03.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

How to fix the housing crisis? Let’s start with this defacto tax on divorce

In the late 1980s, when Paul Keating was pushing reforms to make Australia more competitive he famously quipped that if you walked into any pet shop...

19.03.2024 10

The Age

Matt Wade

How to fix the housing crisis? Let’s start with this defacto tax on divorce

In the late 1980s, when Paul Keating was pushing reforms to make Australia more competitive he famously quipped that if you walked into any pet shop...

19.03.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

The fundamental flaw in Sydney’s tolling strategy – and how we can do better

When Sydney’s modern motorway network was born in the late 1980s, authorities had a choice about how the much-needed road upgrade would be funded:...

12.03.2024 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

The single issue that will hold the NSW economy back in 2024

When Sydneysiders are asked what worries them most, there are normally all sorts of responses ranging from the economy to health care, housing, the...

29.12.2023 10

WA Today

Matt Wade

The single issue that will hold the NSW economy back in 2024

When Sydneysiders are asked what worries them most, there are normally all sorts of responses ranging from the economy to health care, housing, the...

29.12.2023 10

The Age

Matt Wade

The single issue that will hold the NSW economy back in 2024

When Sydneysiders are asked what worries them most, there are normally all sorts of responses ranging from the economy to health care, housing, the...

29.12.2023 10

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

The single issue that will hold the NSW economy back in 2024

When Sydneysiders are asked what worries them most, there are normally all sorts of responses ranging from the economy to health care, housing, the...

29.12.2023 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Feeling the cost-of-living crisis? Charts reveal who’s getting off lightly, and who’s suffering most

Households have endured a sustained cost-of-living squeeze in 2023 that has changed the way we consume. Stubbornly high inflation and rising interest...

25.12.2023 10

WA Today

Matt Wade

Feeling the cost-of-living crisis? Charts reveal who’s getting off lightly, and who’s suffering most

Households have endured a sustained cost-of-living squeeze in 2023 that has changed the way we consume. Stubbornly high inflation and rising interest...

25.12.2023 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Feeling the cost-of-living crisis? Charts reveal who’s getting off lightly, and who’s suffering most

Households have endured a sustained cost-of-living squeeze in 2023 that has changed the way we consume. Stubbornly high inflation and rising interest...

25.12.2023 10

The Age

Matt Wade

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