The other question asked more often than not by investors and consumers is the question 'Are we going into a recession?' The article by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University in The Conversation is clear: " Australians are set to find out if we are on the edge of a so-called “official” recession...The national accounts will either show spending, incomes and production continued to grow in the three months to December, or show they fell....But whatever Wednesday’s data shows, the truth is we are already experiencing the biggest dive in living standards in half a century – and have been for two years.'.