Loans from mum and dad lead to greater strain: RBA
Those who get loans from their parents to buy their first property are almost twice as likely to later encounter financial stress, ask for help from friends and struggle to pay their energy bills.
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Eryk Bagshaw
Eryk Bagshaw is an economics reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based in Parliament House
Coalition pork-barrels own seats up to 138:1
The Turnbull government has funded community developments in electorates held by the Coalition at the ratio of 138 to one in Queensland, figures compiled by Labor show.
'You have to ask for permission to enter the cemetery': a community sold to Australians
Francina Nkosi chose to live in Lephalale because of the farmland. There was enough space to raise her daughter, access to water and as many women as there were men, a rarity in parts of the Limpopo province of South Africa.
'Real concern' over university funding as legislation set to be rushed through to Parliament
The Turnbull government has given itself less than 72 hours to convince the Senate cross bench to pass its university funding reforms as key senators warn they still have "real concerns" about the $2.8 billion savings package.
Pay day for Prime Minister's executives
Senior executives in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's own department have received pay rises of up to 12 per cent a year, six times the level of average Australians as wage growth slumps to its lowest level in history.
Joyce: 'Business will stop, and we will get to see what it's like to live in 1880'
The Nationals Party has voted to remove all subsidies for renewable energy providers over a five-year period and to freeze them at their current level for the next year.
The little-known alternative to the 457 visa
A visa designed to parachute highly qualified international specialists into short-term roles has become the "new frontier for unscrupulous employers" looking to exploit cheap foreign labour, in many cases locking Australian workers out of jobs.
Why Australians are drinking more booze for the first time in a decade
The rise sees Australia's drinking habits edge closer to the decade high of 10.8 litres in 2007, when you could still get an average schooner of beer for less than $5.
Indigenous population in NSW and Victoria doubles
The number of Aboriginal Australians living in NSW and Victoria has doubled since 2001.
Morrison's socialism attack 'embarrassing': Labor
The shadow treasurer has labelled his counterpart's attack on "red" Bill Shorten embarrassing.
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