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Hunt's reforms just healthy for private insurers' profits
The market told the story - Hunt's health insurance reform is for health insurers, not our health.
The market told the story - Hunt's health insurance reform is for health insurers, not our health.
The Reserve Bank has warned about areas where it sees "potential risk" in the property investment market.
The Australian Taxation Office's systems to detect and prevent fraud are working, says Second Commissioner Andrew Mills, but there's always room for improvement.
Company boards and executives may soon face even tougher requirements from the regulator over million-dollar bonuses being dished out in the banking and financial services industry, the regulator has warned.
For all the cry-babies' lobbying, put on a good project and they will come.
Investor mortgage lending staged a surprise recovery in August but the banking regulator's intervention in the home loan market is still being felt.
Australia's superannuation scheme is the envy of the world. It shouldn't be.
The ATO was working with the government to ensure that it had the right public "messaging" before releasing its tax gap figures, Freedom of Information documents reveal.
Almost one in four new homes in NSW is being snapped up by a Chinese buyer, according to Credit Suisse.
Troubling dementia numbers are playing a big role in the surge of private insurance premiums.
An estimated $3.5 billion in revenue from large corporates and multinationals is at risk to the economy, but through audit activity this will reduce to $2.5 billion, according to the Australian Taxation Office.
​Australian companies are experiencing very strong business conditions but their improving profits are not strengthening the broader economy, a survey shows.
Another day, another dire warning that Australian households are about to crumple under the crushing weight of debt.
Think Facebook, or Amazon or Alibaba are growth businesses? They've got nothing on the Port of Melbourne. In their eagerness to raise short-term cash, federal and state governments are letting private owners take larger and larger clips of the ticket for access to monopoly assets.
It's an opportunity cost. That is we've always reminded ourselves of all the other things we could buy for the price of going to 100 kilometres above sea level to the Kármán line, the internationally accepted space border.
We have every energy resource in the world, but political dithering and climate policy missteps have left Australia with an unwanted crown: the highest power prices in the world.
Low wage growth, higher electricity and gas bills and out-of-cycle mortgage rate increases have been blamed for a slump in consumer spending in July and August - the worst since 2010.
The median full-time working woman in Australia earns 87 cents to every man's dollar, new OECD research shows.
Home ownership among young Australians has fallen to the lowest level on record, as an explosive property boom squeezes out all but the wealthiest.
Australia's biggest gold miners and mining lobby groups have lashed out at the WA government over its plans for tax hikes, which they say will cost jobs in an environment of low profit margins.
Weakening consumer confidence is pointing to a slowdown in capital city house price growth, an economist says.
Australia's record of 26 years without a recession flatters to deceive. The gaudy numbers mask serious flaws in the country's economic model.
​House hunters are steering away from Sydney and Melbourne and turning their attention to Brisbane, according to property data group CoreLogic.
As local retailers worry about the arrival of Amazon destroying their business, the taxman will need to start worrying about how Amazon is going to work to minimise its tax bills.
The RBA has kept rates steady at their historical low of 1.5 per cent, as widely expected, while offering little to encourage talk the central bank will hike in 2018.
To insist Australia must drop its corporate tax rate to match international rates is like insisting consumers only shop on price.
Sydney house prices have declined for the first time in 17 months, the latest CoreLogic data reveals.
Look out, here comes another wave of anti-immigration sentiment, or at least pro-much-lower-immigration sentiment, riding on a surge in March quarter population figures, the biggest rise since 2009
It's easier to find a job than it has been in years and the odds are best in NSW.
Australia's top corporates and their advisers say companies are more likely to base future projects offshore thanks to Donald Trump's tax plan.
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