Most want weekend penalty rates, even those who don't work weekends

So popular are weekend penalty rates that a startling 76 per cent Australians who don't get them want them to stay.

Ministers face 'cyber bootcamp' after damning census review

The Australian Bureau of Statistics made the right call to shut down the disastrous 2016 census but the website's troubles were avoidable and rooted in years of bad decisions, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

Barnaby, your advice about sugar is particularly rich, and cruel

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Never accept dietary advice from the Nationals.

A soft drink tax will make us less fat. But here's what it will do to prices

The United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, France, Fiji, Mexico, South Africa and parts of America have sugar taxes. Australia could be next.

End the age of entitlement - for seniors

Australia's tax system has become skewed towards a growing and apparently untouchable group of 'taxed nots' - they are older Australians who pay roughly $1 billion per year less tax than younger Australians in the same circumstances, according to a new Grattan Institute report.

$24 billion budget blowout. Government to confirm the worst on December 19

Much lower than expected wage growth has knocked a hole in the government's budget projections, blowing out deficits right through until 2019-20.

The case for a basic income, no questions asked

What if the right to an income was as basic as the right to vote?

Wage growth plumbs new depths as workers endure record wait for pay rises

f you think it's a long time since you got your last pay rise, you are right. The Bureau of Statistics says over the past four years the average wait has climbed from 12 months to 14 months – the longest on record.

Trump's program is dangerous, says Reserve Bank chief Philip Lowe

Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe has labelled US President-elect Donald Trump's trade policy "dangerous" and probably his biggest concern.