Time to shine a light on 'property tourists'
Having refunded the pitifully small extra amount she tried to receive for her Gold Coast unit-buying excursion, Sussan Ley will now be able to claim nearly all of it as a tax deduction.
Having refunded the pitifully small extra amount she tried to receive for her Gold Coast unit-buying excursion, Sussan Ley will now be able to claim nearly all of it as a tax deduction.
While wealth inequality has fallen across countries, within countries it has increased.
How much is it worth to save an Australian life? The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet says not more than $4.2 million, on average.
There is perhaps no question more vexing for young Australians today than the decision whether to buy or rent a home.
The Reserve Bank is aware it is hurting retirees with lower interest rates. But it's all part of the plan.
Trump's cosying up to Vladimir Putin is straight out of the Nixon/Kissinger realpolitik playbook, seeking to befried Russia to better contain China, the country he sees as the biggest threat to the US as the world's biggest economy.
Business leaders thinking about how they might want to better themselves in 2017 would be well advised to take an intensive course in managing climate risk.
Arguably the world’s biggest bear at this time last year seems to have disappeared, but the bull who most publicly called him out has himself turned into a bear.
Multiply the number of shirts worn in Australia by the time it takes to remove their natural wrinkles, and you pretty much have the national productivity crisis laid out on your ironing board.
One of the small pleasures of my year was watching the deft political manoeuvrings of Thomas Cromwell in the TV miniseries of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall.
Paul Sadler Swimland is the latest franchise network to become embroiled in underpayment of wages and have the spotlight put on its enterprise agreement.
Markets are still behaving as if they will get the "good Trump" (tax cuts and fiscal stimulus) rather than the "bad Trump" (trade wars), despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
Spend much time with economists around this time of year, and you will hear about the dreadful inefficiency of exchanging gifts. But there's a higher logic to the gift economy.
There will be no relaxed Christmas break for Kerry Stokes and the directors of his Seven West Media.
In this uncertain world, there are still a few unalterable facts of political life. For example, Republicans always do what Charles and David Koch, the billionaire bankrollers of right-wing politics nationwide, tell them.
Corporate Australia has wound down for the silly season, but the scandals haven’t abated.
Some economists worry the world economy isn't growing fast enough. It's slowing down and reaching the point of "secular stagnation".
The fixation with the budget deficit being a few billion one way or the other is arguing about the fleas on the dog – it's economic growth that decides whether the dog is fed or not.
Despite the occasional talk, politicians aren't prepared to do what's necessary to fix the problem of employers not paying superannuation.
The saga of Bellamy's demonstrates just how rapidly a company can move from being a sharemarket darling with seemingly limitless growth prospects to a sharemarket pariah with a questionable business model.
Since going public in June 2013, Commonwealth Bank whistleblower Jeff Morris is contacted at least once a month by company insiders.
One managing-director embroiled in scandal is perhaps unlucky: to suffer three in a row starts to look serious.
A new OECD paper has looked at how tax systems, including Australia's, effectively discriminate against married women.
Billionaire media mogul Kerry Stokes has a very important decision to make.
What an amazing difference 19 months can make for parliamentary inquiries into housing affordability and ownership.
Our politicians on both sides have terrible trouble working out how supply works.
When Col Fullagar isn’t jumping out of helicopters volunteering as a firefighter in remote areas of NSW he works in the cutthroat world of life insurance.
You can read James Packer's sell down and impending exit out of the Macau market many ways.
When a guy with an assault rifle walks into a pizza joint to "self-investigate" the made-up conspiracy theory he found on the internet about a non-existent child-prostitution ring, there's no doubt we've got a problem.
It is possible to make sense of what's happening in the labour market, but only if you follow a few rules.
The red carpet is a chance to let your sartorial side shine. So why did so many play it safe?
Big name sponsors are throwing out all the tricks to lure the fashion set to the tennis.
A popular Abbott government initiative could be given more time if the Small Business Minister gets his way.
It's not easy to make a killing in the competitive cosmetics industry. These guys have done it.
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