Economics
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Economy
Economic management
Macroeconomics
Economic policy
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Queensland Budget 2025–26: Budget strategy and outlook
The 2025–26 Budget outlines the economic and fiscal outlook for Queensland. Priorities include community safety, targeted cost-of-living relief, new and upgraded hospitals and generational infrastructure investment in road and rail projects. Initiatives include a new home ownership scheme to reduce the deposit gap. The Budget includes regional delivery plans and a women's' economic security statement.
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Australian Capital Territory Budget 2025–26: Budget outlook
The outlook summarises the 2025–26 Budget and forward estimates for the general government sector, the public trading enterprise sector and the total Australian Capital Territory Government. It provides details of the projected Budget results, and background information including economic conditions and federal financial relations. An overview of initiatives and the infrastructure investment program are provided.
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Sustainable development report 2025
This report provides data to track and rank the performance of all United Nations (UN) member states on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It emphasises that while only 17% of the targets are on track to be achieved worldwide, most UN member states have made strong progress on targets related to access to basic services...
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Rights at risk: rising rents and repercussions
This report aims to inform the ongoing discussion of rental housing policy with new evidence about the experience of renting in the Australian private rental sector. The report notes that rents have surged by 47% in the past five years and calls for nationwide rental increase limits.
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Reforming Australia’s system of business taxation
This report contributes to debates over tax reform by examining the system of business taxation in Australia. It identifies five challenges, illustrating that the problems with Australia’s system of business taxes are complex and multifaceted. The report presents five reform steps which would deliver a simpler, lower and more productive system.