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Australian economy

June 2026

  • NSW Premier Chris Minns

    NSW Labor officials investigated over allegedly disguising donations to Minns – as it happened

  • Lena and Linly outside the apartment block where they bought their first home

    Australia’s housing market is cooling – but a Sydney flat with a broken shower still costs nearly $1m

  • Young woman managing and transferring money. She is holding a credit card / debit card and smartphone. Australians are borrowing record amounts in personal loans as a long-term cost of living pressures wipe out savings buffers

    Personal loans booming as cost of living drives Australians to borrow record amounts

  • Independent Member for Wentworth Allegra Spender.

    Allegra Spender defends voting against CGT reform – as it happened

  • Husic says Labor pile-on after Aukus criticism ‘not healthy’ – as it happened

  • Grogonomics
    double quotation markAustralia’s GDP figures are meaningless when the boom in datacentres means destroying jobs and the climate

    Greg Jericho

  • Trump could slap Australia with 12.5% tariff for allegedly importing goods made by slave labour

  • OECD says Australia should increase EV and renewable energy take up amid fuel crisis – as it happened

  • Jim Chalmers is putting a positive spin on the economy, but is Australia’s outlook grim?

  • Albanese calls Taylor ‘Temu Abbott’ as bitter fight rages over budget tax changes

  • One Nation says it wants a Norway-style gas policy – but it’s not actually in favour of higher taxes on profits

  • Ben Roberts-Smith won’t see full brief of war crime allegations for months – as it happened

  • About 3 million workers on minimum wage to receive 4.75% pay rise in Fair Work Commission ruling

  • double quotation markHouse prices are falling in Australia. That’s a good thing – if you believe housing is a basic human need

    Saul Eslake

May 2026

  • A For Sale sign outside a house in Sydney, Australia

    Capital city home prices fall as experts predict Australia’s property slump could last a year and cut values by 10%

  • Former prime minister Tony Abbott.

    Tony Abbott says Liberals in ‘existential crisis’ as he is elected party president – as it happened

  • Intifar Chowdhury

    double quotation markYes, young Australians will feel the budget changes more acutely. But the risk is that they don’t go far enough

    Intifar Chowdhury
  • Composite image featuring capital gains tax reform critics Paul Bassat, Lachlan Harris, Andrew Charlton and Gina Rinehart

    High stakes: who’s leading the fight against Labor’s CGT reform – and what’s in it for them?

  • Modelling shows 90% of young Australians will be better off under Labor’s tax reforms

  • Australian politics live with Krishani Dhanji
    Treasury secretary says ‘no clear evidence’ for CGT reform criticisms – as it happened

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