Stephen Koukoulas
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2,355 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
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For the June quarter, growth of probably around about zero point five percent.
So not too hot, not too cold, but sort of confirming that the economy has slowed a bit.
Uh last year we were running at GDP around about two and a half percent in annual terms.
That zero point five translates to an annual increase of about two point zero percent.
So the economy has cooled a bit.
But given that we know that the, what do we call it, the speed limit for the Australian economy is about two percent, we're still growing at a at a pretty decent clip.
And that's the thing that's being driven by this household spending number.
But also, as we saw last week, even though CapEx fell a bit in the quarter, the trend is still very, very strong.
figures?
Well, yeah, from from where we're recording this now, we don't know what government demand is.
So it's government consumption, government investment.
They come out later today, ahead of the GDP figures uh in the middle of the week.
But for the here and now, before those numbers are released, G government demand, which is about twenty, twenty-five percent of GDP, we don't get partial indicators.
And we know that government spending on infrastructure has been strong, particularly at the state government level.
The Commonwealth government's been spending like crazy on defense and defense equipment.
That's part of economic growth.
So that's the one that we don't know much about.
So at this stage, if the numbers are continuing to show a gentle slowing, I'll only call it a gentle slowing.
in government spending
Because a lot of these projects, infrastructure comes back again, have been finalized, so they're not being added to at this stage.
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