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Wage growth
Wages growth ends for small business staff as rates and inflation bite
Small and medium-sized businesses are now feeling the pinch from interest rates and inflation, with staff paying the price with a drop in wages.
- by Shane Wright
Opinion & Perspectives
Turkish Airlines deal means cheaper flights, but it won’t end Qantas’ stranglehold
Why is there one rule for one international airline but another rule for others? The short answer is because Australian carriers want it to be this way.
Matt Grudnoff
Economist
Taxes got your goat? You’re fooling nobody by calling it a levy
The nation’s tax system is complicated enough, without adding to it with levies that don’t raise much money and are expensive to collect.
Shane Wright
Senior economics correspondent
Anyone could have predicted Victoria’s billion-dollar cost blowouts
Victorians can’t make a fair political choice when they are forced to vote on rushed projects for which costs are badly miscalculated.
Jago Dodson
Professor of Urban Policy
Federal
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Victoria
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Development
Big build or housing crisis? Victoria has to choose, industry says
- by Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Opinion
Infrastructure
Anyone could have predicted Victoria’s billion-dollar cost blowouts
- by Jago Dodson
New South Wales
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State Parliament
A $3b shortfall: The real pressure a housing surge brings to Sydney
- by Max Maddison
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State Parliament
Labor MPs break ranks to accuse Israel of ‘domination’ of Palestinians
- by Michael McGowan