A new Grattan Institute study finds that for the first time in a long time, young Australians are no better off than those who came before, and are likely to do worse.
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Precedent suggests that what’s happened in the US will lead to a recession, but maybe it’ll be different this time.
Liberal senator Andrew Bragg is one of the Coalition backbenchers who oppose the scheduled superannuation guarantee rise to 12%. They are looking to the retirement incomes inquiry to leverage change.
The progress we were making has been slowed or reversed, at exactly the wrong time.
The High Court of Australia has given the Australia Taxation Office a green light to use leaked information about Glencore and offshore tax havens.
Beijing’s view of the rule of law is very different to what most of the rest of the world understands.
The decision of Suncorp to dump coal, just months after the re-election of the Morrison government, makes it clear that insurers can’t afford wishful thinking.
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The Reserve Bank’s best case scenario is that its forecasts are wrong.
The ethics of specifically targeting children with a collectibles promotional campaign are questionable.
Illegality doesn’t matter when you’ve kneecapped the umpire who would have enforced the rules.
Australia has more to fear than most countries from a global trade and currency war. All eyes will be on the Reserve Bank governor Friday as he attempts to outline what might happen.
Department stores are collapsing. The internet is part of the problem, but so too is the hollowing out of the middle class.
President Trump’s decision to slap tariffs on US$300 billion of China’s exports has set up a currency war that has engulfed Australia.
Only an optimist would expect prices to fall after a series of announcements, some of which are to “consider” doing something.
Claiming “there are jobs out there for those who want them” is cheap rhetoric glossing over the reality of unemployment.
If breast milk was made in factories, we’d count it in the GDP.
China cutting coal imports from Australia by 25% would equate to every Australian having $24 less to spend a year.
The winner will set the course of America for years to come.
“Balanced scorecards”, of the kind countenanced by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, are inherently unbalanced.
New Zealand has proposed new fuel standards, along with a consumer rebates for cleaner cars – paid for by higher costs for high-polluting cars – to cut its rising transport emissions.
Underpaying workers has become rampant in Australia.
Meat substitutes and alternatives might play a positive role but aren’t going to save the planet.
The official figures show things are fine, but Australia’s most comprehensive tracking survey finds the typical household is worse off than ten years ago.
In 2017, 56% of men aged 18 to 29 lived with one or both parents, up from 47% in 2001. And over the same period, the proportion of women aged 18 to 29 living with their parents rose from 36% to 54%.