Australian Demographics Analysis, Profiling & Mapping
During the long months of overlapping Covid lockdowns across all Australian states and the international lockdown to international travel, which is now stretching into years, one of the pleasures we freshwater fly fishermen living in the sub tropics miss the most is the opportunity to travel to some of the more beautiful places on the
🎙 Steve Austin interviews John Black, Founder of Education Geographics.  John discusses with Steve the role of aspirational parents and a stronger labour market in driving the long-term growth of Non-Government schools. The discussion covers the medium-term impact on Non-Government school enrolments of the Covid lockdowns and the Government Stimulus. Also covered is the
When it comes to their new Weekly Payroll Jobs and Wages series, the ABS this week agreed with our ADS post of October 6, 2020: Newer isn’t always better (reproduced below.) With their latest payroll data release this week, the ABS announced it would extend the time between the final payroll period and the release
I had a little piece in The Australian today on some of the modelling and mapping work we’ve been doing recently at Education Geographics, mostly for schools. Australian subscribers can find the link here: https://tinyurl.com/283vk8cy Distinguished Australian Economist Saul Eslake estimates that closing our international borders to tourists and international students is costing us about
Australia is predicted to lose a million persons in the next few years, when compared to pre-Covid estimates. These losses are likely to be highest in suburbs near universities which had previously enjoyed strong population growth, due to recent large intakes of foreign students and very high levels of net overseas migration (NOM). Education Geographics
JobMaker misses the real target by John Black, CEO of Education Geographics, November 17, 2020 Today’s ABS Single Touch Payroll data confirms that JobMaker has come too late to help younger workers displaced by Covid job lockdowns and it is now missing the real target – older workers in retirement and tourist regions. Outside of
Covid Jobs Update from John Black, CEO of Education Geographics, October 12, 2020 Some economists, trade unions and the Labor Opposition say the Federal Government’s JobMaker Budget proposal which subsidises wages only for eligible workers less than 35 years old should be open to eligible workers of any age. They argue that the current policy
Covid Jobs update from John Black, CEO of Education Geographics, October 6, 2020. A week or so back we provided a profile of how the broader Australian stereotypes were faring under Covid jobs lockdowns and today we’re urging a bit of caution when it comes to rushing to judgement on the latest payroll stats –
Covid Jobs update from John Black, CEO of Education Geographics, September 23, 2020. So which groups and regions have been losing jobs under the Covid-19 job lockdowns? Not necessarily who you’d have thought, as it turns out. And what impact is losing your job likely to have on your vote? Frankly, the polls seem to
The Eden-Monaro by-election was held on July 4 and won by Labor’s Kristy McBain, despite a small 2PP swing to the Liberal candidate Fiona Kotvojs. Notwithstanding the small net swing, the range of swings for and against the ALP were 25 percent, which indicated that there was a considerable range of political views about each
