In a classic scheduling error, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the August quarter consumer price inflation (CPI) report a day after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raised the ...

Australia ranks near the top in the world for household wealth. According to the UBS Global Wealth Report 2026, Australia had the third-highest median household wealth in the world, after Luxembourg ...

Contained within the 352 pages of the latest ‘Intergenerational Report’ (IGR) from the Albanese government is a series of forecasts on how Treasury and the Albanese government believe the next 40 ...

War headlines today. The US and Iran are talking through Qatar. Iran bombs two ships in Hormuz, including one Kuwaiti VLCC. Yanbu resumes half of its export capacity. Trump mulls lifting Russian ...

TME with the great mystery. Refusing to break Rates keep screaming, but stocks keep refusing to break. Semis have been hit hard, yet earnings and AI capex remain firmly intact. The broader equity ...

Treasurer “Spin” Jim Chalmers defended the federal government’s inflation record ahead of Tuesday’s 0.25% rate hike from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Chalmers insisted at a press conference ...

Remember the days when this mattered? China unveiled mortgage subsidies and changes to bank lending policies, stepping up efforts to support an economy losing momentum. The country will subsidize ...

As widely expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) unanimously lifted the official cash rate (OCR) by 0.25% at today’s monetary policy meeting, taking the cash rate to 4.60%—a 15-year high. The ...

Australia’s housing market is facing its biggest decline in more than 40 years, with values already down by 5.9% since April across the five major capitals. Tuesday’s 25 bp rate hike by the Reserve ...

Energy tsar, Chris Bowen, is right. Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has unleashed a mammoth attack against Australia’s ageing coal-fired power plants, warning their frequent unplanned ...

Victoria is commonly regarded as Australia’s most poorly managed state, with massive debt, soaring crime, endemic corruption and waste in infrastructure projects, potholed roads, degrading public ...

South East Queensland (SEQ) is now leading Australia’s house price downturn. According to Cotality’s daily dwelling values index, home values in Brisbane (including the Gold Coast) have declined by 1.