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Presentation: Every Person Counts: Planning for WA’s future population
View the slides by lead report author Professor Alan Duncan, Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre from the launch of the report Every Person Counts: Planning for WA’s future population. About the report This twentieth report in the BCEC’s Focus on Western... Read article
View the slides by lead report author Professor Alan Duncan, Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre from the launch of the report Every Person Counts: Planning for WA’s future population. About the report This twentieth report in the BCEC’s Focus on Western... Read article
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Every Person Counts: Planning for WA’s future population
About Every Person Counts: Planning for WA’s future population This twentieth report in the BCEC’s Focus on Western Australia series examines the state’s population story through that wider lens. It asks a set of fundamental questions. What is driving WA’s population growth,... Read article
Every Person Counts: Planning for WA’s future population
About Every Person Counts: Planning for WA’s future population This twentieth report in the BCEC’s Focus on Western Australia series examines the state’s population story through that wider lens. It asks a set of fundamental questions. What is driving WA’s population growth,... Read article
Executive Summary: Every Person Counts: Planning for WA’s future population
Executive Summary To understand and prepare for Western Australia’s future, we must look beyond headline population counts and examine the forces that shape how, where and why the state grows. Population change is not just a demographic outcome. It reflects... Read article
Executive Summary To understand and prepare for Western Australia’s future, we must look beyond headline population counts and examine the forces that shape how, where and why the state grows. Population change is not just a demographic outcome. It reflects... Read article
Every Person Counts: Planning for WA’s future population
Executive Summary To understand and prepare for Western Australia’s future, we must look beyond headline population counts and examine the forces that shape how, where and why the state grows. Population change is not just a demographic outcome. It reflects... Read article
Executive Summary To understand and prepare for Western Australia’s future, we must look beyond headline population counts and examine the forces that shape how, where and why the state grows. Population change is not just a demographic outcome. It reflects... Read article
Executive Summary: Housing Affordability in Western Australia 2025: A long way from home
This executive summary is a concise overview of the key findings and recommendations from the BCEC report, Housing Affordability in Western Australia 2025: A Long Way from Home, which provides a comprehensive and evidence-based response to WA’s housing situation, offering... Read article
This executive summary is a concise overview of the key findings and recommendations from the BCEC report, Housing Affordability in Western Australia 2025: A Long Way from Home, which provides a comprehensive and evidence-based response to WA’s housing situation, offering... Read article
Housing Affordability in Western Australia 2025: A long way from home
Housing has emerged as one of the most urgent and complex challenges facing Western Australia. From surging rents to escalating house prices, the state’s housing market is being stretched to its limits, placing acute pressure on households, communities and service... Read article
Housing has emerged as one of the most urgent and complex challenges facing Western Australia. From surging rents to escalating house prices, the state’s housing market is being stretched to its limits, placing acute pressure on households, communities and service... Read article
Presentation: Dare to Venture: Startups and the innovation ecosystem in Western Australia
View the presentation slides from the launch of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre report, Dare to Venture: Startups and the innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, presented by Dr Daniel Kiely and Dr Abebe Hailemariam at the report’s launch on 19 November... Read article
View the presentation slides from the launch of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre report, Dare to Venture: Startups and the innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, presented by Dr Daniel Kiely and Dr Abebe Hailemariam at the report’s launch on 19 November... Read article
Dare to Venture: Startups and the innovation ecosystem in Western Australia
Dare to Venture: Startups and the innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, the eighteenth report in the BCEC Focus on WA series, seeks to better understand the startup and innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, to inform policies that support entrepreneurship and... Read article
Dare to Venture: Startups and the innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, the eighteenth report in the BCEC Focus on WA series, seeks to better understand the startup and innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, to inform policies that support entrepreneurship and... Read article
Housing Affordability in Western Australia 2023: Building for the future
The latest report in the BCEC Focus on WA report series, Housing Affordability in Western Australia 2023: Building for the future, compares housing affordability in WA to other jurisdictions for both homeowners and renters to get a sense of where WA sits. This... Read article
The latest report in the BCEC Focus on WA report series, Housing Affordability in Western Australia 2023: Building for the future, compares housing affordability in WA to other jurisdictions for both homeowners and renters to get a sense of where WA sits. This... Read article
Bridging the Gap: Population, skills and labour market adjustment in WA
This sixteenth report in the Focus on WA series takes a rigorous look at skills shortages and labour market dynamics in the WA labour market and provides a fresh conceptual look at what skills shortages are, new empirical evidence on... Read article
This sixteenth report in the Focus on WA series takes a rigorous look at skills shortages and labour market dynamics in the WA labour market and provides a fresh conceptual look at what skills shortages are, new empirical evidence on... Read article
Housing Affordability in WA: A tale of two tenures
This report by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre focuses on housing affordability and features findings from the fourth BCEC Housing Affordability Survey of 4,000 households across Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. This fifteenth report in BCEC’s Focus on WA... Read article
This report by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre focuses on housing affordability and features findings from the fourth BCEC Housing Affordability Survey of 4,000 households across Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. This fifteenth report in BCEC’s Focus on WA... Read article
Back in Business? WA Small Businesses and the Impact of COVID-19
The impact of COVID-19 has been felt across the economy and business sector, but for small businesses these shocks can be more challenging to deal with, with fewer resources to draw from. The latest lockdown is a set-back for WA’s... Read article
The impact of COVID-19 has been felt across the economy and business sector, but for small businesses these shocks can be more challenging to deal with, with fewer resources to draw from. The latest lockdown is a set-back for WA’s... Read article
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre team acknowledges the Wadjuk Nyungar people as the traditional owners of the land on which the Centre is situated.