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If the RBA holds rates on Tuesday, this will be why

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...

17.02.2025 9

Financial Review

Michael Read

Relax, here’s why you don’t need that much super

While surveys show fear of retirement is the top source of stress for workers, retirees themselves are among the most financially secure cohorts in...

04.02.2025 20

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Michael Read

Dutton’s plan for taxpayer-funded lunches is not serious policy

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.

19.01.2025 8

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Michael Read

How Australia became the world’s biggest cost-of-living loser

Since 2019, Australians have experienced the sharpest decline in living standards across the OECD. Voters overseas have turfed out governments for...

25.11.2024 2

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Michael Read

Inside Canberra’s hidden $180b spending boom

Australia’s budget numbers are increasingly a mirage as billions in spending are labelled as ‘investments’ to improve the fiscal optics, writes...

11.11.2024 3

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Michael Read

Australia has passed peak property investor

For many around the country, especially Baby Boomers, property investing is a national pastime. But if you look closely, landlord numbers are...

28.10.2024 3

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Michael Read

The cost of the NDIS is radically reshaping the economy

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...

01.10.2024 2

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Michael Read

The ‘insolvency armageddon’ is all hype

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...

16.09.2024 2

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Michael Read

These two charts show the worst of the rental crisis is over

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...

02.09.2024 1

Financial Review

Michael Read