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Australia gets poorer

Blame the political class

31 May 2025

9:00 AM

31 May 2025

9:00 AM

A small population on a resource-rich continent, we Australians should be significantly wealthier. Our GDP per capita, around US$65,000, should be at least 50 per cent higher. Instead, we are going backwards.

In the two years to March 2024, households experienced a per capita recession, the sharpest decline in real disposable income in any advanced country, a shocking 8 per cent. 

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