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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.…

Interactive: Politics Explorer

The Australian Financial Review’s Politics Explorer allows readers to see the party and margin of each federal House of Representatives seat and work out how the polls might impact this distribution. There are two key parts to the interactive database: 1) The Swing Calculator simulates the change in seats based…