The treasurer wants to unleash huge public investment in new industries to cement Labor’s “made in Australia” plan. That sets up the Coalition attack.
Anthony Albanese’s Future Made in Australia will be the centrepiece of the May budget. The treasurer will reveal the five key tests for how it will work.
In a world of rising geopolitical tensions,Australia is tightening up its foreign investment laws in lockstep with many other Western nations.
Jim Chalmers backed the case for tax concessions in a new signal about the scale of the budget plan to help clean energy industries and local manufacturing.
A report warned that as Chinese investment in Australia reached record lows,a more worrying threat was emerging.
Developers of Melbourne’s newest housing estates are being pushed to leave space and soil for trees in private yards to curb the urban heat island effect.
President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013,immediately winning over many foreign governments with promises of unprecedented investment.
Australia’s builders are suffering a three-speed market as high interest rates erode households’ ability to borrow and build dwellings.
Overseas buyers will face a tripling in fees to buy an established home in Australia and will be further penalised if their property is left vacant and not rented,under a government plan to tighten foreign investment laws.
One day for sale,the next not. What gives with the long disused Coburg North TAFE site?
Immigration and foreign investment are making this city increasingly unaffordable,forcing middle-income Sydneysiders like me out.