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Australia must make the environment integral to economic decision-making

  • Written by Carl Obst, Honorary Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
imageWe need to account for the benefit we get from nature.Shutterstock

How we track our economy influences everything from government spending and taxes to home lending and business investment. In our series The Way We Measure, we’re taking a close look at economic indicators to better understand what’s going on.


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