The May budget will improve the nation’s finances over the coming decade. But surpluses will be built on the backs of working Australians.
It was the unwritten rule of Australian politics – house prices must rise. But a new poll shows that’s no longer how everyone thinks.
Support for Pauline Hanson and One Nation has soared this year. But there are signs some of her key messages are starting to turn off voters.
By saying the RBA should tell the government what it should be doing,the One Nation treasury spokesman effectively outsources economic policy to unelected boffins.
The government is under pressure to deal with the illegal cigarette trade by slashing excise. But the nation’s illicit tobacco commissioner says that may not be the answer.
The ceasefire between the United States and Iran appears at an end. The rest of the world,including Australian motorists,will pay the economic cost.
Oil prices have subsided from wartime peaks – but the Reserve Bank fears prices for food are likely to continue climbing.
One of the nation’s top economic forecasters warns the next two years will also be a grind thanks to higher unemployment and more poor wage growth.
House prices have risen at three times the rate of wages over the past 30 years,hurting the young,their job chances and family plans,a productivity expert has said.
Australian mortgages are so large that the nation’s interest bill is higher than when official interest rates were almost 20 per cent.