Eryk Bagshaw is a federal political reporter covering economics based in Parliament House, Canberra. He was previously The Sydney Morning Herald's education reporter.
Coca Cola, Glaxo Smith Kline that have instituted the clean tech energy programme have had their profits climb and businesses expand while those that did not institute the program in the sample have stagnated.
Treasurer Scott Morrison has urged financial regulators to crackdown on investor loans, warning restrictions have "worn off," allowing investors to storm back into the market hurting housing affordability levels and promoting surging household debt.
New study from the University of Adelaide has found that after accounting for house prices, suburbs in Adelaide with shared home ownership schemes have 8 per cent higher levels of home ownership than near identical suburbs in NSW and Victoria
The final stage of Centrelink's digital transformation will be led by Accenture, the same company that delayed 1 million tax returns in 2010.
Scott Morrison is planning to push the so-called "Google Tax" through Parliament.
The Parliamentary Budget Office has costed a proposal that would kill stamp duty and replace it with land tax, saving home buyers up to $40,000, while delivering billions of dollars to fund schools and hospitals.
Consumer confidence in the Australian housing market has collapsed to its lowest level in 27 years, with the proportion of Australians believing real estate was the wisest place to put savings falling to below 12 per cent, the lowest level since 1974.
Major bank warns government measures designed to address affordability could actually drive up prices.
The minister charged with pulling together the Turnbull government's looming housing affordability package is open to allowing Australians to raid their superannuation when buying their first home, but only as part of broader policy changes.
Cash withdrawals have plummeted by 7 per cent as Australia gets ready for a new payments system.
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