University of Technology Sydney

4 weeks ago | uts.edu.au | Tim Harcourt

1. The context. This is the budget that nobody wanted. It was only necessary because of the partial delay in the calling of the election due to cyclone Alfred in Queensland. This makes it Treasurer ‘Sunny Jim’ Chalmers’s 4th budget when normally Treasurer would only bring down three in a normal term of government. 2. The macroeconomic outcomes present a good story.

May 21, 2024 | uts.edu.au | Hayley Clapham |Tess Moodie

Autistic girls, women and gender diverse people experience more physical and mental health challenges, have a shorter life expectancy, experience very high rates of sexual violence and are up to nine times more likely to die by suicide. We need urgent research and support that meets our needsResearch has always been done about us instead of with us. This needs to change. We are paving the way for change when it comes to research about autistic people in Australia.

May 14, 2024 | uts.edu.au | Tim Harcourt

Fight inflation first but don’t sink the economyThe Government is worried about inflation, so they have brought in certain measures to provide relief to Australian households worried about their energy bills, housing costs and medicines in particular. The Treasurer hopes to put some downward pressure on the consumer price index in the short term, the Reserve Bank of Australia doesn’t raise interest rates, or may even cut them.

Sep 18, 2023 | uts.edu.au | Bloomsbury Publishing

The past 40 years have seen massive expansion of the dominance of large corporations in the global economy. A wave of neoliberal reforms spread internationally from the 1980s with the promise that deregulated markets would unleash the animal spirits of private enterprise, bringing a new era of growth and prosperity.