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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Greg Jericho

Australia’s economy remains afloat – but there are choppy waters ahead

Stormy economic waters
Stormy economic waters: ‘One factor that might make Australia more at risk of a greater than average slowdown is that it holds more variable-rate mortgages than other nations.’ Photograph: Paul Fleet/Alamy

The OECD has released its latest outlook and, as with recent reports by the International Monetary Fund, Reserve Bank of Australia and the October budget, Australia is predicted to tread a very fine line over the next few years.

First the good news: the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development expects next year that Australia’s economy will grow as well as any of the major economies. The projected 1.9% growth is better than Japan, Canada, France, the United States and Italy, and unlike Germany and the UK we are not projected to go backwards:

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