Jobs and housing remain a worry for RBA

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The RBA board's minutes showed the strongest sign yet that the next rate move will be up.

Home loans to investors fall to lowest level in 12 months

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

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

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

Australia falls behind Cameroon, Burkina Faso on tax

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.

A ray of light as economists feel better about Trump

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One year on, and the mood about Trump has changed.

Rate cut just as likely as a rate rise, economists predict

Australia is more likely to face an interest rate cut than an increase in the year ahead, a survey of 25 economists by Fairfax Media has revealed, as low wage growth, a high Australian dollar and a cooling housing market push the Reserve Bank towards a new record low cash rate.

Australia, look how much you’ve changed in 50 in years

Compared with the country described in the 1966 census we're more Asian, less Christian and more openly gay.

More than 1600 people a week: Census reveals how we have grown

Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney as Australia's most populated city, for the first time in history the majority of Australians born overseas are from Asia not Europe and there has been a 39 per cent surge in the number of people declaring themselves in a same-sex relationship.

Turnbull government push for whistleblower compensation

The Turnbull government is considering a bounty style reward worth millions of dollars for those who blow the whistle on corruption or unethical behaviour at the hands of multi-billion dollar corporations.