When President Donald Trump berated Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull two months ago over 1,250 refugees the US agreed to accept from Australia, the phone conversation was perceived ominously: A decades-old alliance that was already strained by Australia's economic reliance on China was now being put under greater stress.
If I was on the minimum wage, however, I wouldn't start spending the increase yet.
Australia is close to seizing the crown for the longest streak of economic growth in the world thanks to a mixture of policy guile and outrageous fortune. But it's creaking under the weight of its own success.
The truth is that we are all going to have to pay more out of our own pockets for our health.
Households saw their wealth balloon to a record $11.7 trillion last quarter as cash holdings topped a trillion dollars for the first time ever.
Job vacancies have risen for a third straight quarter to hit the highest since May 2011, data showed on Thursday, a promising omen for a much-needed pick-up in labour demand.
Woolworths chairman Gordon Cairns is among a number of ASX 200 leaders who have thrown their support behind quotas.
Last year, two leading economists described a future in which humans come out ahead. But now they've declared a different winner: the robots.
The law aims to recoup revenue from some of the nation's biggest companies including Apple, BHP Billiton, Chevron and Crown.
Do you work like a nomad - travel from place to place for your job - and then claim it on your tax return? The ATO is watching.
Tax fights involving Amazon and Chevron will have major implications for other companies in long-running disputes.
Home prices in Australia's five biggest cities have jumped 3.7 per cent since the start of this year.
Every years millions of Australian workers miss out being paid their superannuation by their bosses. A federal inquiry is looking into why and how to stop it.
The once high-profile PR agency whose management played a part in former prime minister Kevin Rudd's high-profile "Kevin07" federal election campaign, failed to pay its staff superannuation, a federal inquiry has been told.
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.
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 Tax Justice Network research found that while the largest losses occurred in rich economies such as the United States, lower-income countries were the biggest victims of profit shifting.
The tax man should be undertaking random audits of employers to help identify potentially $5.6 billion worth of unpaid superannuation owed to almost 2.8 million Australians, according to Industry Super Australia.
The bad news about the regulators' new attempts to hose down housing investment enthusiasm is that they are, at best, second rate.
Pimco has joined the chorus of global investors turning bullish on global growth prospects, saying the Trump administration's war on trade is "more symbolic than real".
The commodities mini-boom moves beyond share prices and macro data and is starting to be felt at ground level, NAB says.
Australia's central bank highlighted threats in the property market and an acceleration of domestic household debt even as it lent credence to the global reflation story.
Australia's starkly sex-segregated workforce will remain that way for at least another decade, as young men and women defy expectations and increasingly self-select into traditionally gendered fields of study.
Australia's banking regulator says the country's housing market is in an environment of "heightened risk", but he won't say there's a housing bubble.
It's a dangerous thing to talk a big game before taking the field. Treasurer Scott Morrison did that pre-departure for the weekend G20 finance ministers meeting in Germany. He's been left trying to claim a big loss was actually a win. Monty Python's dismembered Black Knight comes to mind.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has castigated Australia for inadequate progress on tax, Indigenous affairs and support for business in a report card to be presented to finance ministers from the group of 20 leading industrial nations in Germany on Saturday.
If you learn nothing else about the economy, remember that it moves not in straight lines but in cycles of good times followed by bad times, and bad times followed by good.
If the Reserve Bank and National Australia Bank were competitors, the consumer watchdog could have a case against them for price signalling.
The Dutch banking giant's Australian arm expects to increase lending to housing investors this year, allowing it to gain market share as the big four banks pull back for fear of breaching regulatory caps.
Former treasurer Peter Costello often gave good advice to the nation. Perhaps most memorable was his suggestion about family planning.
Michael Macolino's $3 million start-up is targeting the movement of accountants away from big firms to small business.
Siobhan Komander used to run a high-profile events company with Google as a client, but she's starting again from scratch.
Save articles for later.
Subscribe for unlimited access to news. Login to save articles.
Return to the homepage by clicking on the site logo.