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  • 7-November-2023

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    Health at a Glance 2023: Key findings for Australia

    Health at a Glance provides the latest comparable data and trends on population health and health system performance. This Country Note shows how Australia compares to other OECD countries across indicators in the report.

  • 26-October-2023

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    Further reforms needed in Australia to improve gender equality and meet climate ambitions

    Australia recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic faster than other major economies, but growth is now slowing amid tightening financial conditions. To bring inflation down, monetary policy will need to remain restrictive and further windfall government revenues from elevated commodity prices be saved, according to a new OECD report.

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  • 9-May-2023

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    Joining Forces for Gender Equality: key findings for Australia

    Joining Forces for Gender Equality comprehensively analyses developments and policies for gender equality, including issues such as gender mainstreaming and budgeting, reforms to increase fathers’ involvement in parental leave and childcare, pay transparency initiatives to tackle gender pay gaps, and systems to address gender-based violence.

  • 25-April-2023

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    Taxing Wages: Key findings for Australia

    The tax wedge for the average single worker in Australia decreased by 0.2 percentage points from 27.1% in 2021 to 26.9% in 2022. The OECD average tax wedge in 2022 was 34.6% (2021, 34.6%).

  • 30-November-2022

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    Revenue Statistics: Key findings for Australia

    The OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics report found that the tax-to-GDP ratio in Australia increased by 0.8 percentage points from 27.7% in 2019 to 28.5% in 2020.* The corresponding figures for the OECD average were an increase of 0.2 percentage points from 33.4% to 33.6%.

  • 22-October-2021

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    Australia: Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the OECD

    Biographical note of Australia's Permanent Representative to the OECD.

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  • 14-September-2021

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    Australia: Post-pandemic reforms should strive for a return to strong, well-distributed growth

    After rebounding rapidly from last year’s COVID-19 recession, Australia’s economy has weakened due to containment measures to combat new outbreaks of the virus. Once the economy reopens and the recovery resumes, the focus should turn to reforms to revive productivity growth, lift living standards and strengthen resilience, according to a new OECD report.

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  • 7-July-2021

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    OECD Employment Outlook 2021: How does your country compare?

    In some countries, employers used job retention programmes to cut hours while allowing workers to keep their pay and jobs; there, it is likely that the full impact of the pandemic is yet to be felt. In other countries, there have been unprecedented increases in unemployment, but many workers will return to their jobs (or to new ones) as economies re-open and activity picks up.

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  • 15-June-2021

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    OECD Skills Outlook 2021: How does Australia compare?

    The Skills Outlook Country Profile details key indicators to assess the extent to which Australia is able to provide strong foundations for lifelong learning; promote effective transitions into further education, training and the labour market and engage adults in learning. It also evaluates the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on adult learning and the labour market.

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  • 19-May-2021

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    Preventing Harmful Alcohol Use: Key Findings for Australia

    Australia consumes 10.5 litres of pure alcohol per capita per year, roughly equivalent to 2.2 bottles of wine or 4.0 litres of beer per week per person aged 15 and over. In addition, in Australia, some population groups are at higher risk than others.

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