Pip joined Ai Group as a Senior Policy Adviser in 2013. She has broad experience covering economics and public policy, having worked as an economist for the Reserve Bank and Macquarie Bank, as a journalist at the Australian Financial Review in the Canberra Press Gallery, as well as advising a Federal Treasurer. She has a first-class honours degree in Economics and an Arts degree from UNSW.
Patents, trademarks, registered designs and copyright regulations are the focus of a Productivity Commission inquiry on Intellectual Property Arrangements. The review is a broad ranging investigation of our IP system which also looks at geographical indications, moral rights, performers’ rights…
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Your story can help us shape Government policies. This year, once again, there is no shortage of Government inquiries on issues that are important to business. Ai Group will continue to make submissions and representations to try to get good…
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The Australian dollar has fallen substantially since the beginning of September, and was hovering around US$0.81 today, close to its lowest level since June 2010, or in four and half years. Since September, it has fallen around 13 cents from US94c to around…
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Each quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publishes a survey of private capital expenditure by business over the year ahead. The Capex survey, as it is called, gives an indication of the pace of business investment in the forthcoming…
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The ABS recently released annual data on the performance of each State and Territory economy, known as Gross State Product. This is the most complete measure of economic activity by state because it takes into account each State and Territory’s share…
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The strength of Australia’s residential property market and the possible risks it poses to the economy have come under the spotlight from the Reserve Bank and the media in recent months. The Reserve Bank has expressed concern in various speeches…
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In this week’s economic note Ai Group’s economics team steps through the latest official data released for Australia. For Australian businesses, the most interesting data out this past week was the quarterly Wage Price Index data from the Australian Bureau…
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