Rubbery Jobs Figures

Rubber Jobs Figures - 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.

Rubbery Jobs Figures

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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


Education Geographics has been working closely with Australian Development Strategies and Health Geographics to map future spatial population impacts of Covid.

Looking Beyond Covid – Spatially

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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


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Looking Beyond Covid

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Looking back to the dark days of the pandemic in mid-2020, we were able to tell our Principals which families and streets within their catchment needed support during job lock downs. We then charted the jobs recovery by suburbs so school Business Managers could track the recovery in their local economies. But that was the


JobMaker misses the real target by John Black CEO of EGS

We Told You So..

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JobMaker misses the real target – written 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.


Comparing Payroll Jobs and Labour Force Survey Employed Persons

What’s in an Age?

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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.

Newer Isn’t Always Better

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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 –


Stereotypes - Watching the watchers, Covid jobs update from John Black of Australia Development Strategies

Watching The Watchers

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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


Eden-Monaro by-election snapshot of results, Swing to the ALP on the day by SA2, 4th July 2020.

National implications of Eden-Monaro by-election

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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


Job recovery was underway in May following initial hit in April May 2020

Jobs Recovery Was Underway In May Following Initial Hit In March/April

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The recovery in many jobs was well under way in May. It’s been most pronounced in those hit first in March/April, working in hospitality, young home buyers, young casual workers also studying at TAFE and this is all to the good. The downturn however continued in May among farming and rural communities, especially fishing (think


Eden Monaro 2020 map

Eden-Monaro by-election 2020

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By JOHN BLACK, Founder of ADS The Eden-Monaro by-election will be held on July 4. With a week to go, Labor’s Kristy McBain is the bookies’ favourite on $1.70 to win, with published robo-polls giving her 53 percent of the two-party preferred (2PP) vote. Despite trailing in the robo-polls and with Sportsbet paying $2.25, I


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