Statistics
Australian bankruptcies – falling numbers continue into the new financial year
The dramatic annual fall in personal insolvencies in Australia to 30 June 2020 has continued with the second half of ...
Australian bankruptcies fall 42% over the ‘virus’ quarter
Australian personal insolvencies in 2019-2020 have continued to fall, quite dramatically, of over 23% on last year, and over 35% ...
Down and down – Australian personal insolvency numbers
The first fortnight of July (29 June to 12 July) saw a drop down from 611 to 587 of people ...
Australian personal insolvencies falling in number
The number of personal insolvencies in Australia have been falling since the start of the corona crisis, which some might ...
Australia’s new fortnightly ‘COVID-19’ personal insolvency statistics
The Australian bankruptcy trustee and regulator AFSA has started to release fortnightly statistics on personal insolvencies in Australia[1] to assist ...
Insolvency returns to creditors and other fictions
Insolvencies average dividend returns to unsecured creditors of under 5 cents in the dollar, in some cases, under 1 cent. ...
Proportions of bankruptcies – a factor of 8.8 in Australia, but only 3.4 in England and Wales
While waiting to see if Australia’s parliament decides to introduce a one year period of bankruptcy, down from the current ...
What’s bankruptcy all about?
Would you get out of bed in the morning, as an unsecured creditor of a bankrupt, for a dividend return ...
‘A one year bankruptcy or a 3 year debt agreement … what’s the catch?’
With Australia on the verge of introducing a one year period of bankruptcy, it is odd that no comparable reforms ...
Guerilla tactics needed against phoenix misconduct
While the government is considering the various submissions on phoenix reforms, these quick thoughts came to mind, involving both government ...
Where’s an economist when you need one?
R3 in the UK has commented on a recent OECD Report, about which we gave some views when it came ...
A silver lining in the insolvency law reform delay
The unfortunate delay in the commencement of the substance of the insolvency law reforms for one year, to 1 September ...
A mere 0.2% ‘rise’ in Australian bankruptcies but with bigger changes to come
While the usual hype about rates of personal insolvency in Australia might sell, a reported 0.2% rise in personal bankruptcies ...
