The idea of separating out the retail arms of the Big Four banks, featured in the Greens election policy, has merit and has been done before.
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The critical question is how far we are willing to allow rural Australia to fall behind when it comes to telecommunications infrastructure.
Was Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen right to say that the Coalition presided over the most sustained fall in our living standards since records began?
A move by the US to open up more competition in pay-TV has sparked a debate about TV viewing data.
Business Briefing: how does Australia’s policy costing agency, the PBO, compare?
The Parliamentary Budget Office is being used to cost policies in this election but could it be more politically active?
There has been an odd silence around commercial deals struck between Australian media outlets and China’s propaganda arms.
Politicians want us to believe closed circuit TV makes us safer. But the main beneficiaries are private firms handed lucrative tax-payer contracts.
Reducing the minimum wage - and eliminating income tax for those workers - is a far better strategy to tackle poverty.
There is an ongoing trend of low workforce participation among Indigenous people, research demonstrates eight ways to improve this.
Paying a higher price for milk at the supermarket won’t help farmers much as the Australian dairy industry is more exposed to international markets.
Labor is arguing that Australia should keep the temporary deficit levy, a tax introduced by the Coalition government to help reduce the budget deficit.
Politicians stumbled over superannuation this week - but there are bigger obstacles they aren’t willing to tackle.
Was Jacqui Lambie correct to say apprenticeships are going “wayside” and that there are more than one million 457 work visa holders in Australia?
GDP growth that doesn’t translate into income is no cause for celebration.
Paying every citizen a basic living wage sounds costly and counter-intuitive to reducing unemployment. But Finland is about to do it and Australia could too.
The adverse impact of the resources bust is still there, but the figures suggest the economy tracking at or above its potential.
Independent senator Nick Xenophon told Q&A that foreign debt is approaching $1 trillion, up from $74 billion the previous year. Is that right?
Trade Minister Steven Ciobo told Q&A viewers that Australia has had 25 years of continuous economic growth, and is the only country in the world with a period of growth that long. Is that true?
Business Briefing: what happens to your credit history
As credit reporting agencies find new ways to make money out of people accessing their credit histories, agency wrongdoing is calling into question the whole business model.
The ASIC inquiry into how mortgage brokers are paid won’t do much to change an already competitive system.
Already popular in Australia, litigation funding is gaining traction in the US, but with a problematic twist.
Labor says that public sector infrastructure investment has fallen 20% under the Abbott-Turnbull government. Is that right?
If you can’t really tell the difference between Target and Kmart, you’re not alone.
Smaller super funds are just as efficient as some of the very largest, bucking industry belief that biggest is best.
Are proposed tax cuts giving Australia’s largest banks $7.4 billion over the next decade?