Within the AICD’s new weekly podcast, the AICD Chief Economist Stephen Walters discusses the financial information administrators should be throughout. Within the second episode, Stephen and AICD author Ivan Ah Sam discuss the powerful work to be executed for the Western Australian economic system, the catastrophe of the February nationwide jobs numbers, and the AICD’s variety of the week.
The economic system was one of many major points within the Western Australian election. Stephen and Ivan discuss concerning the financial local weather within the state following the sources increase and the prospects forward for Western Australia to diversify into industries like tourism and schooling. Stephen criticises the lags within the GST alloaction which have piled on high of the decline in royalty revenues to depart the state authorities in a parlous budgetary place.
Additionally mentioned are the extraordinarily disappointing nationwide jobs numbers for February. The nationwide unemployment charge is now edging as much as the 6% threshold the place policymakers will most likely must take motion to cope with the softness within the economic system.
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