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8 to 24 August – Australia competes in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The Australian Olympic team wins 14 gold medals, coming 6th on the medal tally. 7 September – The Melbourne Storm win their third straight minor premiership following the final main round of the 2008 NRL season.
Daniels, Kay, ed. Australia's women, a documentary history: from a selection of personal letters, diary entries, pamphlets, official records, government and police reports, speeches, and radio talks (2nd ed. U of Queensland Press, 1989) 335pp. The first edition was entitled Uphill all the way : a documentary history of women in Australia (1980).
Business and economics portal This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Australian businesspeople . It includes businesspeople that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Corporate support for women in business is also on the rise, with grants made available to help women in business. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Affirmative action has been credited with "bringing a generation of women into business ownership" in the United States, following the 1988 Women's Business Ownership Act and subsequent measures.
By the end of 2009 the unemployment rate for men was 10.7%, while women's unemployment peaked at 8.4%. [59] This trend of the "mancession" was seen in other countries as well; in 2008 605,000 of the 891,000 who lost their jobs in the United Kingdom were men. [60] The stress of unemployment affects men and women differently.
The Australian wildfires that have scarred more than 20 million acres of land also figure to damage the country's economy. AccuWeather predicts Australia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2020 ...
In the most up-to-date WIPO-supported study published in 2017, [169] the copyright industries contributed $122.8 billion to the Australian economy in 2016 amounting to 7.4% of Australia's total economic output. The 2016 figure represented an increase of $8.5 billion compared to 2011, with a growth in value added growing at 1.4% per annum (since ...
Australia's high-income mixed-market economy is rich in natural resources. [319] It is the world's fourteenth-largest by nominal terms, and the 18th-largest by PPP. As of 2021, it has the second-highest amount of wealth per adult, after Luxembourg, [320] and has the thirteenth-highest financial assets per capita. [321]