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Our foreign debt will grow and it already exceeds $1 trillion deficit. But that's not necessarily bad.

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In the case of wage fraud scandals, investors have zero tolerance.

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The balance sheets of Australian households with a mortgage are dangerously exposed to any fall in house prices.

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The tax office is chasing seven companies for $2.9b, but if history's any guide, it will only get half that amount.

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We can create a modern national energy system if we let informed regulators and the Chief Scientist Alan Finkel do their work unhindered.

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Shocking cases of wage fraud in the big brands of 7-Eleven, Domino's, Caltex and United Petroleum, ricochet across the country, prompting all sides of politics to promise new legislation to rein in systemic wage fraud.

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Hats off to Brian Hartzer for the use of understatement by declaring APRA's alleged crack down on real estate investors wouldn't have 'any particular profitability impact'.

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Sensible voices must acknowledge that building one of the world's biggest coal mines is environmentally reckless and incongruent with the direction of energy markets.

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It is little wonder employees, investors and consumers have hit zero tolerance on wage fraud issues.

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It says plenty about the state of Australian politics that so much policy is viewed through the lens of Sydney and Melbourne housing affordability, writes Michael Pascoe.

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Only the government has a weapon large enough to stop the housing juggernaut.

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The world's biggest coal exporter has a problem.

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Twitter Inc is in a funk. Even the heavy involvement of "The Donald" has done little to turn the company's fortunes around.

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Australia's largest banks versus Apple; there's no contest.

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If I was on the minimum wage, however, I wouldn't start spending the increase yet.

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The simplest way to solve super's many problems is to make contributions voluntary.

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APRA is caught between a rock and a hard place in its attempts to reduce lending risk in the residential property market.

The days of low-value mass production in Australia are nearly at an end so we need to think about the areas where Australia has competitive edges.

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The truth is that we are all going to have to pay more out of our own pockets for our health.

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Woolworths chairman Gordon Cairns is among a number of ASX 200 leaders who have thrown their support behind quotas.

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For the first time since the launch of the European project in the 1950s, the US no longer sees the EU as an asset in the diplomatic equation. Many in the White House would happily see it broken up.

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What started last week as a trickle in Australia looks like turning into a mini avalanche.

We need to shift the industrial relations debate to focus on small business benefits.

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Why is it that one of the world's top five energy exporters can barely keep the lights on? That's not as much of a contradiction as it sounds.

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Smoke signals from Canberra suggest that all the government will manage to get through the Senate is a reduction to 27.5 per cent in the tax rate applying to companies with turnover of less than $10 million a year.

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Extortion, blackmail, cash back scams and slavery are happening every day under our noses.

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Economists may not be much chop at forecasting how fast the economy will grow in the next year or two, but that doesn't mean they haven't learnt a few things about how economies work.

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Sydney has been our clear fly-in-fly-out capital ever since the resources investment boom peaked, but it's ramping up to a new level.

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Our school motto was et facultatem culturae - culture and capability - and I was keen to show my old classmates I had that in abundance.

The plan to release this data is a huge win for businesses that do the right thing and pay their bills.