It does sound like the kind of pay rise Labor and the unions would engineer three Saturdays before a close election. And a headline like a 35% pay rise sounds like great news to Labor voters and ...

The time has come for me to make my detailed predictions for Australia’s federal elections on 3 May. I can now honestly say that the result I have always predicted will occur. It has always been my ...

Let’s look at these ‘promises’ by starting with Albo’s offerings: Every worker gets a $1,000 standard tax deduction of ...

Reading the economic tea leaves and notes from John Kehoe, influential economics editor of the AFR, makes me think a May rate cut is a near past-the-post certainty. Only a bad CPI reading on April 30 ...

The national average price of unleaded petrol has tumbled to $1.79 a litre but who can’t remember seeing prices topping $2 in recent times? Helping KO high prices has been the surprise increase in ...

In a nutshell, while stock markets cheered at the Trump U-turn, the pesky economists, who are also tagged “the dismal scientists” have come up with conclusions that stock markets digested today, which ...