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Cashed up and employed: RBA says households can withstand higher rates
Reserve Bank deputy governor Michele Bullock says households enjoying a strong jobs market can use COVID-era savings to manage a lift in interest rates.
- by Shane Wright and Rachel Clun
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Real wages to take larger hit as inflation pressures grow: Chalmers
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ update on the state of the economy next week will show an even larger than expected to hit to real wages.
- by Shane Wright
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Hospitals’ reality TV jobs drive thwarted by visa delays
Welsh nurse Ariana Evans applied to work at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney after seeing the advertising campaign linked to Nurses Down Under, but many others were turned off by lengthy delays for visas.
- by Angus Thompson
Environment scorecard finds Australia’s habitat ‘crumbling rapidly’
Australia has lost more mammals than any other continent and the latest report card says things will get worse faster without urgent intervention.
- by Mike Foley
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Chalmers seeks bipartisan approach to imminent RBA review
The first review of the Reserve Bank since the early 1980s will get under way soon as the government signals it wants bipartisan support for the inquiry.
- by Shane Wright
‘Don’t trust in governments’: Scott Morrison delivers Pentecostal church sermon
In a sermon to former tennis champion Margaret Court’s Pentecostal congregation, the former prime minister told churchgoers to trust in God, not the government or the UN.
- by Lisa Visentin