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NAB found FHB owner occupiers accounted for a total market share of 35.7 per cent, the biggest such proportion since the ...

First home buyers take over the housing market

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

First home buyers were meant to be waiting until July 1 to jump back into the market, but NAB's latest survey paints a different picture.

On this week's episode of "It All Adds Up" we hear from unemployed 17 year old Bianca Barnard who is looking for work. ...

'You have to really wow them': The charts to show your boss to get a pay rise

IN DEPTH
Jessica Irvine

The Reserve Bank governor says workers should ask for pay rises. Here are three charts to get you started.

Business confidence is powering along but consumer sentiment remains in the doldrums.

Australians divided over economy like never before

ANALYSIS
Michael Heath

Australian companies and consumers are divided as never before over their judgment of the nation's economy.

A report from S&P showed it had 30 sovereigns on downgrade warnings, or "negative outlooks" in rating firm parlance, at ...

More countries in line for ratings cut this year: S&P;

Some of the big economies with negative outlooks on their ratings include Brexit-bound Britain and still triple-A Australia.

You can get pretty much anywhere in 20 minutes and are guaranteed a parking spot if you go by bike.

The treasure map for Sydney real estate investors

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

In various city towers, bureaucrats are pondering to whom and when they should gift hundreds of millions of dollars, perhaps even billions, by the stroke of a rezoning pen.

Loans to first-home buyers edged up 0.2 per cent in May, to 14 per cent of all loans.

Home loans to investors fall to lowest level in 12 months

Eryk Bagshaw

Tough new regulations are pushing investors out of the housing market and allowing first-home buyers to creep back in, figures show.

Governor Philip Lowe first appeared to invoke the third objective when fronting a parliamentary panel just four days ...

'Lots of wiggle room': RBA harks back to WWII to make rates decision

Michael Heath

It's rarely discussed but is being increasingly used by the RBA when making interest rates decisions.

Frustrated millennials can get a taste of the sharemarket.

'Play money is important': How the avo generation is hooking into the sharemarket

Jessica Irvine

So, you've given up the dream of home ownership – for the moment, at least.

Melbourne, Sydney property prices continue rise

Melbourne led the way in property price growth over the past week, while Sydney also saw a rise, according to the latest CoreLogic property data.

Over the next decade, the total defence spend could hit half a trillion dollars.

The very expensive Abbott promise Turnbull is keeping

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

One of the legacies of the Abbott era could cost Australia $500 billion over the next decade.

Former US Fed chairman Ben Bernanke says economic managers have been guilty of "errors of omission" over recent decades.

How Treasury lost the plot on economic reform

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Treasury will continue to flounder and its influence wane until it switches its goal from smaller government to more effective government.

Roselyn and David Owen, their sons Michael and Peter, and their dog Abby at their Park Orchards home.

The suburb with Melbourne's highest-earning households

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, Craig Butt

Park Orchards has a median weekly household income of $2660, which is $250 more than that of half of Toorak's households.

The rise of creative industries in the Australian economy

Rachel Clun

New research is aiming to show the economic impact of Australia's creative industries, and the hot spots for jobs in that sector.

Residents [L-R] Chris Klimek, 67, Gordon Grainger, 78, Rick Wraight, 74, Patricia Garrard, 66, and Trevor Cook, 73 in ...

Census 2016: Life in Australia's oldest and youngest towns

EXCLUSIVE
Eryk Bagshaw

There are no hills in Tea Gardens, barely a single two-storey house and only 67 babies.

The LNG plant at Gladstone in Queensland.

Australia falls behind Cameroon, Burkina Faso on tax

Eryk Bagshaw

Australia is set to become the world's largest exporter of gas but its level of resource tax transparency falls behind Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Mongolia, a new global report has found, as the country forfeits billions of dollars in tax to multinational mining giants.

As gaming becomes better and better, it's rational for people to sacrifice more and more of other things to do more of it.

Gaming. The shocking reason young men are walking away from work

Peter Martin

A team of researchers in the United States might have cracked one of the biggest mysteries in economics.

Activist investor Elliott has continued its campaign for a restructure of BHP.

Australia cuts export forecast after iron ore falls

Australia has revised down the value of its resources and energy export earnings in the financial year ended June by 4.6 percent, or nearly $10 billion, due largely to falling prices for iron ore, its most valuable export.

The 'dismal' science's seven secrets to happiness revealed

Podcast
Jessica Irvine

In truth, economics has much to teach us about the pursuit of "utility" or happiness.

Experts have been calling the end of the property market for years.

No need to fear a housing bubble, says HSBC economist

Emily Cadman

Soaring home prices in Australia's biggest cities are driven by strong demand and a lack of supply, rather than being a sign of a "bubble," according to HSBC Holdings local chief economist Paul Bloxham.

Enormous rise in tax take to power return to surplus

Peter Martin

Australia's return to budget surplus will be built on the back of a 14 per cent increase in the income tax take.

Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe's statement paid tribute to the role played by depreciation of the dollar ...

How the Aussie dollar kept the RBA's hands tied

ANALYSIS
Peter Martin

The Reserve Bank has disappointed commentators hoping for a hawkish stance by keeping rates steady.

The Reserve Bank would like to raise the cash rate but can't because inflation is weak.

Year of sitting still: RBA keeps cash rate on hold

Peter Martin

The Reserve Bank has kept its cash rate on hold at 1.5 per cent.

It is still a man's world in corporate Australia. But companies that set and measure gender diversity targets are more ...

'What gets measured, gets done': How companies get female boards

Nassim Khadem

It's a pretty simple concept that some of corporate Australia is yet to grasp: companies that set and measure gender diversity targets are more gender diverse.

A key leading indicator of Australian economic activity showed the economy growing strongly in the second quarter.

Services and manufacturing deliver strong growth

Myriam Robin

A key leading indicator of Australian economic activity showed the economy growing strongly in the second-quarter.

Sydney and Melbourne property prices jumped in June.

Sydney, Melbourne prices bounce back in June

Sydney and Melbourne property prices rebounded in June after a pullback the month before.

The Australian National Audit Office is conducting a performance audit of the ATO's approach to settlements.

ATO accused of taking 'belligerent' stance in disputes

Nassim Khadem

Individuals and small business taxpayers are still encountering ATO officials who take an "unnecessary, belligerent stance" when it comes to resolving disputes, one of Australia's largest accounting bodies says.

Get ready for interest rate rises - but not overnight

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Last Monday, an article appeared on the Lowy Institute's "Interpreter" blog under the relatively benign headline: "Rising interest rates and the RBA".