Inflation gloom prevails despite budget bright spot
Australia's deficit for the past financial year will be smaller than expected, but rising interest rates and stubborn inflation give little cause to celebrate.
The challenge of finding a new home
Australia's deficit for the past financial year will be smaller than expected, but rising interest rates and stubborn inflation give little cause to celebrate.
Australian mortgage holders can expect more borrowing pain when the Reserve Bank board meets, with an interest rate hike almost universally anticipated.
Treasury's productivity assumption has been described as "unrealistically optimistic”, but the Reserve Bank's might be too downbeat, an economist says.
Three-quarters of Australians are willing to cut back on their discretionary spending to afford a home, new data reveals, but there is a catch.
Scores of construction workers have been laid off after administrators of a major property developer announced rescue funding talks had failed.
How the cost of living and policy has impacted Australians has been laid bare in the latest update of the nation's longest running and broadest reaching survey.
Billions of dollars are expected to be added to the Australian government's debt interest bill as bond yields surge to 15-year highs.
The housing industry’s peak body says Tasmania’s new home construction costs are blowing out as the state of local governments wrestle with their infrastructure.
The Federal Government’s projections for life in the next 40 years revealed in a report this week, are ambitious as they miss critical factors, says the Property industry peak body.
Amid rocketing living costs and the prospect of further home loan rate rises, one of Australia’s most trusted business observers calls on authorities to look at their spending to help ease the burden on all of us.