Topics: Christian Porter; Greg Hunt; National accounts; Omicron; 01/12/2021 7:09PM AEST Oli Peterson: GDP has dropped 1.9 per cent in the September quarter, largely thanks to those lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne. But it’s a very different story over here in Perth. The WA economy grew 0.6 per cent and since COVID struck. So…
Topics: National accounts; GDP; QLD quarantine facility; Greg Hunt: Christian Porter 01/12/2021 6:21PM AEST Steve Austin: Simon Birmingham is Australia’s finance minister. Simon Birmingham, thanks for coming on this afternoon. Simon Birmingham: Hello, Steve. It’s great to be with you again. Steve Austin: So what was the cause of the third biggest…
Topics: National accounts; Greg Hunt; Christian Porter 01/12/2021 4:20PM AEST Scott Emerson: The Australian economy contracted during the September quarter as a result, of course, of the COVID lockdowns in the nation’s two biggest cities, just as Australia learns to cope with this new variant of the virus, Omicron. New data from the Bureau…