Economics editor at Guardian Australia. Formerly of The Australian and Australian Financial Review.
Joined January 2013
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Patrick Commins retweeted
23 Apr 2025
The starting point for any useful discussion of housing policy is an acknowledgment that prices and rents should not keep rising.
Neither party is capable of that yet.
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Patrick Commins retweeted
4 Jul 2023
The Reserve Bank’s struggle to tame inflation is being exacerbated by $230bn worth of state and territory infrastructure spending and a failure to slow the mammoth pipeline of road, rail and energy projects. theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
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2 Jul 2023
Great from @tomdusevic:
"Does Albanese take the well-worn road of ever more debt, with its risky delusions of exceptionalism and free money? Or can it reinvent how we earn our way in the world via its work-in-progress brand of values-based capitalism?"
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Patrick Commins retweeted
30 Jun 2023
Price controls look to be more important for child care than rents. Average annual growth for child care prices (gross) last 18 years 6% compared to rents 2.7% and the overall CPI 2.5%.
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28 Jun 2023
The @PBO_AU has some very snazzy charts showing Australia's projected long term financial position
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Patrick Commins retweeted
20 Jun 2023
Come work at the @FinancialReview
covering accountants, consultants and more.
We're looking for a Professional Services Reporter
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Patrick Commins retweeted
15 Jun 2023
Australia recorded the largest annual population increase in the nation’s history after two Covid-affected years, despite a rise in the number of deaths and a drop-off in births: bit.ly/3p4FZ0W
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15 Jun 2023
A lot going on today but just wanted to note that Australia's unemployment rate is lower than it was when the RBA started its shock-and-awe series of 12 rate hikes.
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Patrick Commins retweeted
15 Jun 2023
This decision seems utterly inexplicable.
15 Jun 2023
.@andrewprobyn is the hardest working ABC journalist I know and the broadcaster's best and most constant news breaker. And they've sacked him because they suddenly don't need a political editor. What a disgrace from an organisation full of middle-management time servers. @abcnews
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Patrick Commins retweeted
15 Jun 2023
If it's true that Andrew Probyn is leaving the ABC, that is total madness.
He knows politics, he breaks news, he is thoroughly fair and he works non-stop.
He's a good man treated shabbily by an organisation that should know better.
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Patrick Commins retweeted
15 Jun 2023
Probes has done so much to help guide younger journos in the gallery. This is terrible news.
15 Jun 2023
Probyn made redundant at ABC
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Patrick Commins retweeted
15 Jun 2023
Proud to call @andrewprobyn an ex-boss, mentor and most importantly friend. Fantastic journo and newsbreaker, someone who is a leader in the Press Gallery. What are they smoking at Ultimo?
15 Jun 2023
.@andrewprobyn is the hardest working ABC journalist I know and the broadcaster's best and most constant news breaker. And they've sacked him because they suddenly don't need a political editor. What a disgrace from an organisation full of middle-management time servers. @abcnews
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Patrick Commins retweeted
15 Jun 2023
.@andrewprobyn is the hardest working ABC journalist I know and the broadcaster's best and most constant news breaker. And they've sacked him because they suddenly don't need a political editor. What a disgrace from an organisation full of middle-management time servers. @abcnews
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15 Jun 2023
“Looking across the range of indicators – strong growth in hours worked, the elevated employment-to-population ratio and participation rate, along with the low unemployment and underemployment rates – they all point to a continuing tight labour market."
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Patrick Commins retweeted
14 Jun 2023
My latest column in @financialreview. We have a housing crisis, but rent controls will make it worse. That's what the best causal evidence is clear on. Supply, reforming planning & zoning regulations are the answer. afr.com/property/residential…
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Patrick Commins retweeted
14 Jun 2023
Over the quarter rent assistance renters (1.27m) experienced a 1% increase in gross rents and 0.5% increase net of rent assistance payments.
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Patrick Commins retweeted
14 Jun 2023
March quarter 2023 DSS data shows rents up 4.1% over the year for 1.27m rent assistance recipients. 3.2% net of rent assistance data.gov.au/data/dataset/dss…
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14 Jun 2023
While some Australians are under "significant" financial pressure, the Council of Financial Regulators' quarterly statement provides cover for more rate hikes
@australian #rba #rates #auspol
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