The numbers that drive our future
Broad support for Clare O'Neil's suggestions around reforming the National Construction Code.
But the nation has been down in the dumps for the second longest period since the respected Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment Index began its survey 50 years ago.
Australia must cut unnecessary red tape and boost business investment if young people are to be better off than their parents, the productivity tsar says.
The unemployment rate slid to 4.2 per cent in July, partly because of an unwinding from an earlier, outsized jump, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reports.
Banking and real estate analysts are forecasting a double digit lift in property prices over the next 18 months.
The 3.5 per cent quarterly growth in the number of investment loans follows two consecutive falls.
The "Trumpification" of the US Federal Reserve provides an unsettling backdrop to the Reserve Bank's August meeting, where it is expected to cut interest rates.
The Reserve Bank of Australia board is expected to deliver mortgage holders more hip-pocket relief in its upcoming interest rates decision.
Buyers and sellers waiting for the Reserve Bank's next move and the traditional boomtime that is the spring selling season.
The Housing Industry Association (HIA) latest report will be good news for government hoping to see the Housing Accord back on track.
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