The Australian Treasurer has flagged major tax changes for workers and investors, ahead of Tuesday’s budget announcement.
Cameron Micallef
For Australians already struggling with mortgage repayments and tenants drowning in rent rises, the interest rate hike has left many with their heads in their hands. Here’s my guide for you.
David Koch
Goods have soared by as much as 40 per cent in five years, putting WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti’s ‘cost of living-relief Budget’ under renewed scrutiny.
Joe Spagnolo
Australians face higher grocery prices, as a “perfect storm” of rising oil costs and global supply disruptions hits every link in the food chain.
Labor may loosen super investment rules, but Jim Chalmers says members’ interests will remain paramount.
Ryan Johnson
US President Donald Trump has unveiled a retirement savings plan he said will be better than Australia’s $4.5 trillion superannuation system, but experts say it falls short.
An Australian state has delivered a budget with $1bn in cost of living relief – including a payout for every driver.
Emma Kirk
TelstraSuper has been found to have left hundreds of members waiting too long for answers to their complaints.
Borrowers have been slugged with higher mortgage rates after the Reserve Bank’s May hike, but many savers will miss out unless they meet the fine print on bonus accounts.
More than 862,000 NSW motorists have claimed $284 million since January, with 58 suburbs now in the “$1 million club” for total cashback received.
Tia Clarkson-Pascoe
Australia’s income support system is under mounting strain from the staggering number of people drawing some form of assistance.
Andrew Hedgman
Here’s the rub for the RBA: How do you get people to stop spending when you reward cashed-up baby boomers while slugging young families with a mortgage?
Daniel Newell
Economic echoes of the post-COVID-19 period indicate global volatility will not break Australia's hunger for credit, lowering the odds of recession.
Adrian Black
Households are days away from being smashed with higher costs, as the all four major banks react to the latest rate hike.
The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates by another 25 basis points to 4.35 per cent, undoing last year’s relief. Governor Michele Bullock hinted at more pain and cautioned against higher government spending.
Stephen Johnson
The state government handling the largest debt pile in the country has handed down an election year budget.
Alexandra Feiam and Blair Jackson
New data reveals a surprising change to consumer spending as the RBA prepares to make a crucial decision on interest rates.
Ike Morris
The Middle East war has blown another hole in the budgets of millions of families already shell-shocked by two interest rate hikes this year.
New analysis from the Super Members Council found one in four Australian workers missed out on super between 2018 and 2023, costing employees $24.4 billion nationally.
Australia’s most indebted state will hand down a budget on Tuesday – just seven months from an election – amid grim forecasts debt interest is set to hit $28m per day.
Blair Jackson
The energy company that operates the Geelong oil refinery which went up in flames last month has issued a major update on its repairs.
A ‘phenomenal’ rise in the number of granny flats being built in Perth is not only solving the housing crisis, it’s also keeping families together.
Nick Bruining
For borrowers, the question is not simply whether rates will rise again, but if paying for certainty now is worth the risk of being locked in later.
There are plenty of workarounds for seniors looking at a granny flat arrangement. Some can even result in a big age pension boost. Here’s how the system works, and how you can squeeze more out of Centrelink.
