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Cheap money isn’t coming back. Bigger deficits, the energy transition and investment in AI mean the cost of borrowing will be higher in the years...
History suggests that once the RBA starts cutting, property fever hits quickly. One prominent expert says a 10 to 15 per cent price rise is coming.
The views of Australia’s top policy minds are unwelcome this campaign because few of the announced policies would have survived the scrutiny of a...
The opposition’s proposal to pay down debt would actually involve the federal government taking on even more debt.
Whether Michele Bullock delivers a much-anticipated rate cut or not will hinge on how the Reserve Bank board interprets shifting signals from the jobs...
While surveys show fear of retirement is the top source of stress for workers, retirees themselves are among the most financially secure cohorts in...
Less than a week after condemning Labor’s cost-of-living policies as sugar hits, Dutton on Sunday announced a new sugar hit of his own.
Since 2019, Australians have experienced the sharpest decline in living standards across the OECD. Voters overseas have turfed out governments for...
Australia’s budget numbers are increasingly a mirage as billions in spending are labelled as ‘investments’ to improve the fiscal optics, writes...
For many around the country, especially Baby Boomers, property investing is a national pastime. But if you look closely, landlord numbers are...
A scheme only ever meant to cost $22 billion is underwriting a once-in-a-generation rise in government spending that rivals the mining boom in...
Concern about the record number of company failures is not only overblown, but the surge in businesses going bust is probably a good thing, writes...
Small shifts in behaviour can have a big effect. A jump in the number of homeowners welcoming flatmates has added the equivalent of 106,000 houses...