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Today's GDP figures won't tell us whether life is getting better -- here's what can

  • Written by Kristy Muir, Professor of Social Policy / CEO, Centre for Social Impact, UNSW

We are a country that has become richer than we possibly ever could have imagined. We have had 29 years of unprecedented, world-record holding economic growth.

Although economically things are a little precarious in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak and our worst bushfires in recorded history, ahead of the first gross domestic product (GDP)...

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