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Why does public administration capture 8.8% of employee compensation from 5.9% of hours worked?

Public Administration and Safety accounts for less than 6% of Australian hours worked but almost 9% of employee compensation — the largest positive gap of any industry. The statistic raises an intriguing question about why.

Australian Jobs Growth

Australia’s jobs boom is increasingly a care-and-government story

Australia added about 1.29 million main jobs between June 2022 and June 2026. Health, education and public administration accounted for roughly 689,000 of them — 53.4 per cent of the total increase.

Australian Non-market Employment Growth

One-quarter of the economy generated almost half of the growth in hours worked under Labor

Nearly half of the increase in hours worked since Labor came to office has occurred in health, education and public administration. ABS data shows non-market hours grew 18.9%, compared with 7.6% across the market economy.

Cash Distribution System

Background: Armaguard designation

The RBA has brought Armaguard inside Australia’s new Cash Distribution Framework only a week after the legislation commenced. Here is why cash distribution is under pressure, what the new powers do and what the change means for Australians.

Understanding the ING prudential reporting failure

ING Australia appeared to hold a very large liquidity buffer, with published Liquidity Coverage Ratios around 160%. APRA has now revealed the true position was materially weaker and at times below the prudential minimum.

Australia’s productivity gap with the US is becoming embarrassing

Australia and the United States are recording similar GDP growth, but they are getting there very differently. Australian productivity fell over the year to June while US productivity rose strongly.

Very interesting change to Australia's securitisation market structure

Securitisation is the process of pooling loans — such as mortgages, car loans or business loans — inside a special purpose vehicle, which then issues asset-backed securities to investors. The repayments on the underlying loans ultimately support the interest and principal paid to those investors. Residential mortgage-backed securities, or RMBS,

Which political party is best for business investment?

Private sector business investment is one of the hardest economic indicators to fake. Surveys can tell us how businesses say they feel, but investment tells us what firms actually do with their money. When businesses spend on machinery, buildings, engineering work and intellectual property, they are making a concrete judgement

How Australia’s economy has changed

Australia’s economy today looks markedly different from the economy of two decades ago. Gross value added measures the value an industry creates after subtracting the goods and services it uses in production. Comparing each industry’s gross value added with the total therefore provides a simple measure of its

Australia’s $288 billion-a-day financial plumbing

The RBA’s RTGS system settles about $288 billion per business day. This explainer shows what that figure means, why it is so large, and how it compares with NPP payments, card spending, wages and GDP.

GDP Released: Australian productivity has barely increased in a decade

Australia's economy grew 0.4% in the June quarter, but hours worked increased by exactly the same amount. GDP per hour worked remains only around 1% above its June 2016 level.

Australian Economy

Australia is borrowing from abroad to pay higher fuel prices

Australia is paying substantially more overseas for imported fuel. The fuel is quickly consumed, but the foreign liabilities used to help finance Australia’s external deficit can remain.

Could Macquarie become Australia’s fourth-largest mortgage bank by 2030?

Macquarie Bank is growing its Australian mortgage and deposit books at more than 20 per cent a year. APRA data suggest that, if recent percentage growth rates persist, it could overtake ANZ’s principal banking entity around 2030.