Stephen Koukoulas

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2,355 appearances 24 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard yesterday

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This is in annual terms.
So aside from the quarterly volatility, so per capita GDP is not increasing by all that much.
So that's where we consumers are feeling a bit of pressure.
Things are
Sort of moderate.
So that's important uh for sort of the consumer sentiment, how are we going and whether the economy's actually making genuine progress for the hard working Australians that are uh in our economy.
It also is important too because it is, as we've been discussing for a long time now, it's a driver of demand for housing.
Population's increasing rapidly, you need houses, whether they're rented or bought in a wa in a way doesn't matter in the short term, but there's pressure in the housing market.
And so some people have noted that the very strong increase in immigration and population growth over the last
few years has been one reason why house prices were strong.
Uh so we'll be getting a bit of an update on all those sorts of indicators just to sort of see is there anything happening there.
That skills point is really important.
Are we sort of fortunate enough, smart enough to be bringing in the type of workers that we need?
The obvious one, tradespeople.
We've got to build more stuff, not just houses.
But uh um data centers.
We're building more warehouses.
We've got a lot of infrastructure spending going on.
So if we can choose the right uh balance, that's a good thing.
But there's no number set in concrete.
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