AFR interactive artist Les Hewitt, my frequent partner-in-crime, and I have done some work with our award-winning investigative journalist Neil Chenoweth on a series of stories about profit shifting by multinational corporations. The interactives in the stories are designed to complement Neil’s forensic examination of each firm’s accounts. A lot of…
Accounting students, the jobs market and the Skilled Occupation List
I’ve written a series of stories looking at the job market for accounting students and graduates, the inclusion of the field on a list of in-demand occupations and the state of the jobs market. It is an area where there is big money at stake (international students are a critical cash…
Wealthy will weather property downturn
There is a fierce debate about housing prices in Australia, with the arguments ranging from property prices being wildly overvalued through to supply merely catching up with demand. The Reserve Bank has been conservative in their commentary, and their biannual Financial Stability Review outlined a more nuanced picture of the housing market.…
Federal political polling in 2014
I regularly cover the political polls with a view to providing readers with an objective overview of what the different pollsters have found. We have a database of all the national polls going back several years that I use to provide context to the stories. This allows me to focus…
Interactive: Polling Explorer
The Australian Financial Review’s Polling Explorer was designed to help make sense of the data deluge that accompanies every federal budget. The interactive features five modules tackling a different major element of the budget. It was produced with the fine data visualisation experts from Small Multiples. Poll of Polls This interactive graphic…