Peter Martin is the Economics Editor for The Age.
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has committed his state to a referendum on whether to host Australia's first nuclear waste dump, saying he will push ahead despite lukewarm public support.
Eight years in the making, the giant Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal between Australia, the US and ten other regional powers is as good as dead after the Obama administration walked away from its plan to put it before the "lame duck" of Congress ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration as president.
Suddenly, Trump is good for business.
President Donald Trump will declare economic war on our biggest customer, wipe unprecedented amounts off global stock markets, usher in extraordinary financial instability, and risk turning the the world's biggest economy into a basket case by pushing its national debt past 100 per cent of GDP.
There's another massive deal you've never heard of.
Data held by corporations on consumers would become the property of those consumers for the first time.
Welfare experts have ridiculed a government claim that thousands of parents on government benefits earn more than if they had a job, saying it is built around a mathematical mistake.
Life-expectancy has hit a fresh all-time high with typical newborn girls now expected to live 84.5 years and a typical boys 80.4 years, up from 83.3 and 78.5 years a decade ago.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has the report he commissioned to determine "which heads will roll and when" as a result of the collapse of the census website on census night.
The Coalition backbencher who chaired the stalled inquiry into home ownership has appealed to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to restart it
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