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News.com.au
12 hours ago
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Boosting productivity will strengthen the Australian private sector
HSBC Australia's Chief Economist Paul Bloxham emphasises the need to address productivity to boost the 'What we need is the private sector to start to revive and to recover,' Mr Bloxham told Sky News host Ross Greenwood. 'How do you get the private sector to pick up … part of it's going to be helped along by interest rates coming down a bit. 'Unless we lift productivity … competition, tax reform, the regulatory environment, all the things that will help to lift the private sector.'
News.com.au
15 hours ago
- Business
- News.com.au
Unemployment rate at 4.1 per cent since January
HSBC Australia Chief Economist Paul Bloxham discusses the Australian unemployment rate and its impact on the labour market. 'I think the main thing to focus on is the unemployment rate, and the unemployment rate is steady at 4.1 per cent, which is quite a low rate,' Mr Bloxham told Sky News host Ross Greenwood. 'The unemployment rate's tracking sideways, the labour market's still actually fairly tight.'
