May
‘Back in the game’: Hydrogen sector celebrates from afar
Almost 50 Australian companies were in Rotterdam for the World Hydrogen Summit. When news of the budget bonanza came through, the reaction was ecstatic.
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- Hans van Leeuwen
April
Labor push to delay aged care pay rise over worker shortage fears
The Albanese government has warned a large pay jump could fuel labour shortages and risk its budget strategy of cost of living relief without added inflation.
- David Marin-Guzman
February
- Opinion
- Investing
‘Money dysmorphia’: The new problem gripping Gen Z
Millennials and Gen Z are suffering from crippling insecurity when it comes to money and finances - and it’s a real problem.
- Erin Lowry
November 2023
- Opinion
- Global economy
How disinflation is driving more social inequality
Letting central banks prop up fiscal spending and households was an idea that should have stayed in the dustbin of history.
- Adrian Blundell-Wignall
Thirteen rate rises later, this borrower is not paying anything more
Jacob Schnackenberg counts himself lucky. He is one of hundreds of thousands of Australians who secured an ultra-low mortgage rate during the pandemic.
- Euan Black
April 2023
The Disneyland trip that guided this AFL player to wealth management
Michael Mansfield has forged a successful career in financial advice after playing in three AFL grand finals for Geelong and surviving two open-heart surgeries.
- Gus McCubbing
February 2023
- Opinion
- Income tax
Biden can’t pay for everything by just taxing the wealthy
Rich people only have so much money and there’s a limit to what you can get by taxing them.
- Allison Schrager
October 2022
They created a $1.5m start-up in lockdown. The budget worries them
Small business owners Cat Bloxsom and Morgan Collins, behind knitwear outfit Cardigang, wanted the budget to boost consumer confidence.
- Gus McCubbing
Super returns crumble as inflation unleashes wild market ride
Returns are falling deeper into the red as traditional diversification strategies fail, and a worsening inflation picture keeps the pressure on global central banks to push through aggressive interest rate increases.
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- Duncan Hughes and Emma Rapaport
May 2022
Albanese dismisses reports of $10b deficit blowout
The prospect of higher deficits comes as the cost of Australian government debt hits its highest level since 2014.
- Michael Read
April 2022
Debt to jump by $12b on rising borrowing costs
Less than a month since the federal budget was delivered, there has been an increase in borrowing costs and market expectations for interest rate rises.
- Ronald Mizen and John Kehoe
March 2022
Deficit and inflation fears curb budget relief plans
‘It’s not like there’s lots of extra cash that can be splashed around despite what the Labor Party may think or promise,’ Simon Birmingham says
- Phillip Coorey
Albanese spruiks federation reform in election pitch to business
If he becomes Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese will aim to harmonise states’ land planning and development rules to further drive federation reform.
- Andrew Tillett
December 2021
Business investment surge will drive economy: Frydenberg
The Federal Treasurer says the mid-year economic outlook will forecast new business investment to increase by 16 per cent over this year and next.
- Phillip Coorey and James Thomson
May 2021
- Analysis
- Analysis
Ardern’s budget shows more fiscal restraint than Frydenberg’s
Finance Minister Grant Robertson has not spent all of the upside of a better than expected bounce, choosing to speed up the nation’s fiscal recovery from pandemic-induced debt.
- Luke Malpass
Big-spending Ardern budget targets recovery
Massive spending was targeted towards housing, healthcare and infrastructure, while funds were also allocated to addressing child poverty and climate change.
- Praveen Menon
The stocks set to benefit from budget spending spree
The federal budget measures are propelling a cyclical recovery which is set to benefit the Australian sharemarket and reinforce the reflationary trade.
- Alex Gluyas
Invest in growth to tame budget: economists
Think tank the Blueprint Institute says the next decade could go one of two ways: continued stagnation, or another roaring twenties.
- Ronald Mizen
Growth alone won’t fix the budget
Savings similar to levels last seen in Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey’s politically toxic 2014 budget are needed to balance the books despite an expected $98 billion improvement to the bottomline, according to Deloitte.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Abbott-Hockey sized savings needed to balance the budget
Fiscal repair isn’t as simple as just repairing the economy. Repaying the estimated bill of $40 billion a year from the pandemic will be a huge political challenge.
- Chris Richardson
