Yesterday
ASIC’s Joe Longo named Time climate crusader
This feels like 2011, when Euromoney opened our eyes to the charms of Wayne Swan.
- Myriam Robin
This Month
Macquarie could pass on bank levy to home borrowers
Banking disrupter Macquarie would jack up interest rates on mortgages or even leave the retail market altogether under a rural service proposed levy, an analyst says.
- Lucas Baird, John Kehoe and Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Big four
A levy to help rural banking is also a tax on innovation
The quest to leave no one behind in the regions cannot come at the expense of working households in the outer suburbs and elsewhere.
- Alexander Sanchez
- Exclusive
- Big four
Macquarie, Westpac and CBA big losers from $350m rural bank levy
Confidential details shared with industry participants show the size of the cost to the biggest lenders as Treasury attempts to keep regional branches open.
- Updated
- John Kehoe and Joshua Peach
Inside the two weeks from hell for the country’s biggest supermarkets
This week, Woolworths chief executive Amanda Bardwell and Coles’ Leah Weckert will have a chance to tell their side of the story in hearings run by the ACCC.
- Tom McIlroy and Carrie LaFrenz
Cash to stay king for essential products
The federal government will also call time on the use of cheques in the Australian economy, limiting their use from 2028.
- Tom McIlroy
- Exclusive
- Big four
Banks face new levy to keep rural branches open
Banks would pay a levy of up to tens of millions dollars each a year if they fail to keep a large enough presence in regional and rural areas.
- John Kehoe, Lucas Baird and James Eyers
Chalmers warns against Dutton comeback as interest rate hopes fade
Capital Economics became the latest forecaster on Friday to push back their forecast for the RBA’s first cash rate cut beyond the next election.
- Tom McIlroy and Michael Read
M&A deals to spike ahead of merger reforms, says Corrs
The new regime is likely to capture more deals and involve longer reviews, the law firm has warned.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Federal election
Musk rings alarm bells for business of government
Why the appointment of the world’s richest man to a cost-cutting role in the Trumpiverse challenges Labor’s approach to government in Australia.
- Jennifer Hewett
Merger shake-up gets Coalition’s blessing
The opposition will support the federal government’s biggest overhaul of the laws in 50 years, after lobbying from the ACCC’s Gina Cass-Gottlieb.
- John Kehoe
Chalmers sets up $900m productivity fund
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ new fund will offer incentive payments to streamline building approvals and enact other pro-productivity reforms
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Trump’s foreign policy agenda a high-stakes guessing game
Donald Trump’s presidency is about to show up the contradictions in Australia’s defence spending and its domestic economy.
- Jennifer Hewett
Accenture readies Future Made in Australia ad blitz
The advertising agency that sells lamb on Australia Day will now sell the government’s Future Made in Australia package.
- Myriam Robin
- Opinion
- Company tax
An OECD global tax deal is close. Australia should jump on board
It wasn’t a good look for Australia to be on the world stage at last month’s IMF meetings as a noted holdout on a crucial international agreement.
- Richard Holden
The numbers that show why Chalmers fears a US-China trade war
A US-China economic split would disrupt global trade and undermine Labor’s plan to ramp up the export of green metals and hydrogen, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says.
- Updated
- John Kehoe and Phillip Coorey
ANZ Bank and Chalmers nearing deal to offset China
Negotiations are in the final stages for the federal government to support the bank to remain in nine Pacific countries, under a plan to secure its presence in the region.
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Albanese and Chalmers make the same error as Biden and Harris
The Democrats’ decision to put jobs ahead of inflation has cost them dearly. But Labor has been doing the same thing.
- Steven Hamilton
- Opinion
- Leading Indicators
Inside Canberra’s hidden $180b spending boom
Australia’s budget numbers are increasingly a mirage as billions in spending are labelled as ‘investments’ to improve the fiscal optics.
- Michael Read
Migration policy hijacked by unis and bureaucrats: McKenzie
Bridget McKenzie says Australia’s debate on migration needs refocusing; Malcolm Turnbull’s former son-in-law James Brown to run against Teal MP. Follow live updates.
- Updated
- Lucy Slade