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Population booms: Melbourne has four of the five fastest growing suburbs in Australia

New Australian Bureau of Statistics population figures show the city has four of the five fastest growing regions in the nation.
theage.com.au|By Clay Lucas

Peter Martin: Centrelink is why the budget won't win us over.

If we no longer think the government tells the truth, we'll be impervious to the charms of its budget.
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Simplicity. How the Productivity Commission will take on the super funds

The non-profit industry funds want you to think there's nothing wrong. They are most often the funds new employees are defaulted into and they perform the best, on average far better than their for-profit competitors.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin

One default fund for life. Unions sidelined in radical overhaul of superannuation.

Union-dominated super funds would lose their special status under a draft Productivity Commission recommendation that would delink superannuation from awards and allocate new workers to default funds only once.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin

Demographic stats. Victoria fills up as the rest of the nation - including Sydneysiders - moves in

In the last 12 months 82,800 Australians have moved to Victoria from interstate, around 500 carloads a week.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin

Peter Martin: How Turnbull can kill stamp duty and produce a budget to remember.

There's still time to craft a budget that actually does something.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin

If your wallet is empty, you're part of the new majority.

We're using credit cards more than cash.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin

That sucking sound is Australians being robbed of their gas:

How a nation awash with gas ran dry in the middle of a global gas glut.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin

The Reserve Bank is worried about a housing price collapse, beginning with Brisbane apartments

The Reserve Bank is considering tighter bank lending standards amid concern about how the financial system would handle a collapse in housing prices.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin

Back above 50 per cent. Investors storm back into housing market, elbowing out first home buyers

Investors have roared back into the housing market, buying properties that would have otherwise gone to owner-occupiers, and embarrassing the government by taking out more than half of the new money meant for housing.
smh.com.au|By James Massola

It ain't socialist. How shared equity can put a roof over your head, and why Turnbull's keen.

Letting someone else own a share of your house means you're not putting all your eggs in one basket.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin

Hidden figures. Women manage money better:

Women get the better of men when it comes to money.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin

High earners are negatively gearing their way out of the Medicare Levy. Morrison can stop them. Thursday's column

High earners are negatively gearing their way out of the Medicare levy.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin

Despite the headlines...
No zealot about cutting company tax, Ken Henry despairs about Australia's politicians

Former Treasury chief and National Australia Bank chairman Ken Henry is far from a zealot on cutting company tax rates.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin

My thoughts on penalty rates, from a while back.

Easter has become sacred even for the non-religious and the non-Christian.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin

"Perilously close". The graph that stumps the Reserve Bank

Private sector wage slid to a new record low of 1.8 per cent in the year to December, down from a record-low 1.9 per cent in the year to September.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin

Peter Martin: Forget what you've heard about coal. Electricity prices are going up regardless

I'll give it to you cold. Electricity prices are going up.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin