Business
The economy
Job vacancies edge to record high in August
Job vacancies inched higher in the three months to August to notch an all-time peak, suggesting that demand for labour would remain healthy for a while yet.
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Property prices
Australian property prices facing 'longest downturn in decades', says UBS
UBS says the housing price slump could end up being the longest in several generations.
- by David Scutt
Analysis
Gender equality
Male graduates earn more in first year than females except in one area
The gender pay gap widened in many areas but it has closed and flipped in some places, new data reveals.
- by Nigel Gladstone
Education
Policymakers ignore link between human capital and growth 'at their own peril'
Australia fell to 26th in a global ranking of 195 countries for “expected human capital” in 2016, down from 22nd place in 1990.
- by Jessica Irvine
RBA
Why you aren’t getting a pay rise: Blame 'superstar' companies
The productivity gains of smartphones and other new technologies are not being fully passed on to workers as wage increases, a new paper finds.
- by Jessica Irvine
Analysis
World markets
Dangerous divergence: why the global economy is getting more vulnerable
The world is acutely vulnerable to another shock that ‘’over-burdened’’ central banks won’t have sufficient residual capacity to respond, warns the BIS.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Investigation
Pay
Are we all prepared to pay the price for proper wages?
Underpayment is rampant in the hospitality industry. It's baked into the price we pay when we go to many cafes. So what are we doing about it?
- by Ben Schneiders & Royce Millar
Opinion
Federal budget
Frydenberg must awaken the slumbering Treasury on cost cutting
There are many new ways to tackle spending but the government is not showing much interest.
- by Ross Gittins
Energy
Data centre power use greater than Woolworths, Coles combined
Our love of the cloud means data centres are swiftly becoming one of the country's largest consumers of electricity.
- by Cole Latimer
Opinion
United Nations
UN survey: More women MPs in Ethiopia, Cuba and Tanzania than Australia
The UN figures show 32.7 per cent of seats in Australian parliaments were held by women last year. More than 30 nations on the index had a higher share than that, including Argentina, Ethiopia, Cuba and Tanzania.
- by Matt Wade
Energy
Electric vehicles tipped to become the smartphone of the future
Electric vehicles will be the new mobile phone, going from where people can’t imagine why they’d want one to being unable to imagine life without them, and China is set to be the driving force.
- by Cole Latimer