Regional Economics

Australian Quarterly Gross State Product – June Quarter 2023 and 2022/23 Annual Benchmark

Quarterly Gross State Product Australia, Quarterly GSP Australia, Quarterly State Accounts Australia. Economic growth. GSP growth. New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (Vic), Queensland (Qld), South Australia (SA), Western Australia (WA), Tasmania (Tas), Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Northern Territory (NT). Benchmarking. June quarter 2023, 2022/23. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Cat No. 5220.0, Cat No. 5206.0. […]

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Australian Quarterly Gross State Product (GSP): June Quarter 2022/23

Quarterly Gross State Product Australia, Quarterly GSP Australia, Quarterly State Accounts Australia. Economic growth. GSP growth. New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (Vic), Queensland (Qld), South Australia (SA), Western Australia (WA), Tasmania (Tas), Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Northern Territory (NT). Benchmarking. June quarter 2023, 2022/23. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Cat No. 5220.0, Cat No. 5206.0.

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Is Hosting the Women’s Soccer World Cup Worth It (economically speaking)?

A couple of weeks ago, while outside at lunch from our day job in the city, we observed a band playing its heart out to about two people in Perth’s Women’s world cup ‘Fan Festival‘ or Fan-Fest. By the time we left work later in the day, only a few more rowdy fans had arrived

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Cost-Benefit Analysis versus Computable General Equilibrium Modelling: The Case of Logging Mowen Forest

Recently we were going through some of our old internet bookmarks and came across a link from 2015 on the controversy surrounding the then proposed logging of the the Mowen State Forest southeast of Margaret River in Western Australia. The article was published in the West Australian, authored by Daniel Mercer, but the only place

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Australian Quarterly Gross State Product (GSP): December Quarter 2020/21

On 2 March 2022 the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) published the December quarter 2021 Australian National Accounts: National Income, Expenditure and Product (Cat. No. 5206), which means we can update the Practical Economics quarterly Australian State and Territory Gross State Product (GSP) series.  The ABS does not publish quarterly state and territory GSP. The Practical Economics quarterly GSP

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Why is the Western Australian Economy So Reliant on Mining?

Following our article on the decreasing diversity of the Western Australian Economy, Gareth Parker on WAtoday has a couple of good articles on the same topic. Firstly on the increasing reliance of the Western Australian economy on mining and then on the implications of how in such an economy you are very dependent on supply

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