'Plain disappointing'. Did Australia just go backwards?

A further slide in business investment has economic forecasters pondering the unthinkable: that the Australian economy shrank in the September quarter, and that next week’s GDP growth figure will have a minus sign in front of it.

How Turnbull could be the new Menzies and help first home buyers

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Turnbull and Morrison are genuinely concerned about the inability of ordinary Australians to buy houses and are open to ideas.

Stand by for a Reserve Bank rate hike, says OECD

The OECD believes the next move in Reserve Bank interest rates will be up, sometime before the end of 2017.

Win the election, buy some wheels. Seriously

Coalition voters spent up big on cars after Tony Abbott's 2013 win.

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.

Feeling okay? That could be because you're in the Sydney-Melbourne bubble

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The concept of "two Australias" isn't new, but those of us in VicNSW are less aware of it than we were back at the peak of the mining boom when it was QldWA versus the rest.

A woman is one step closer to being RBA governor

The Reserve Bank has promoted Luci Ellis to the position of Assistant Governor (Economic), making her to first woman to become what is effectively the Bank's chief economist.

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.