Election outcomes: How will the Australian economy fare?
As the dust settles on the US election and the world prepares for Trump to take the Oval Office in January, economists weigh in on how the Australian economy may be impacted.
Shivaune Field
Shivaune Field is a business journalist with Forbes Australia reporting on tech and innovation. She has reported extensively in the U.S. and Australia across print, digital, television and podcast platforms. She regularly interviews founders, C-suite executives, leaders, entrepreneurs, and company builders. Before Forbes, Field was a journalist with Bloomberg Media based in Los Angeles covering innovation and the business of media and entertainment. She spent 16 years living in California and recently returned from Arizona where she reported on the 2024 US election. Field writes for the bi-monthly Forbes Australia magazine and Forbes.com.au. She covers Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Netflix among many other companies. She is the editorial lead for Forbes Women in Australia.
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