March
The key change Dutton should make to bring back discipline
Something’s got to give. Indexing the tax scales would force budget discipline on the next government.
Budget lunch gets a poor corporate turnout
Westpac’s Anthony Miller was the filling in a power sandwich, but CEOs were thin on the ground at the budget wash-up lunch.
5 ways financial planning is like marathon training
Elite athletes understand that high performance stems from the compounding effect of many good decisions. The same principle applies to wealth building.
February
Can Queensland dig itself out of a $109 billion budget black hole?
Successive governments have announced, but never really stuck to, top-down fiscal rules designed to ensure the state’s finances don’t get out of control.
January
Nine red flags for budget watchers
Labor has a choice: deliver a pre-election budget that builds Australia’s future or keep sailing blindly towards another decade of debts and deficits.
December 2024
Six ways to get ahead financially in 2025
Start with the end in mind by deciding where you want to be financially in a year’s time.
October 2024
How wealthy are you (compared with everyone else)?
Try our interactive quiz to see how your income measures up with the rest of the country, your state and your industry.
May 2024
‘Back in the game’: Hydrogen sector celebrates from afar
Almost 50 Australian companies were in Rotterdam for the World Hydrogen Summit. When news of the budget bonanza came through, the reaction was ecstatic.
April 2024
Labor push to delay aged care pay rise over worker shortage fears
The Albanese government has warned a large pay jump could fuel labour shortages and risk its budget strategy of cost of living relief without added inflation.
February 2024
‘Money dysmorphia’: The new problem gripping Gen Z
Millennials and Gen Z are suffering from crippling insecurity when it comes to money and finances - and it’s a real problem.
November 2023
How disinflation is driving more social inequality
Letting central banks prop up fiscal spending and households was an idea that should have stayed in the dustbin of history.
Thirteen rate rises later, this borrower is not paying anything more
Jacob Schnackenberg counts himself lucky. He is one of hundreds of thousands of Australians who secured an ultra-low mortgage rate during the pandemic.
April 2023
The Disneyland trip that guided this AFL player to wealth management
Michael Mansfield has forged a successful career in financial advice after playing in three AFL grand finals for Geelong and surviving two open-heart surgeries.
February 2023
Biden can’t pay for everything by just taxing the wealthy
Rich people only have so much money and there’s a limit to what you can get by taxing them.
October 2022
They created a $1.5m start-up in lockdown. The budget worries them
Small business owners Cat Bloxsom and Morgan Collins, behind knitwear outfit Cardigang, wanted the budget to boost consumer confidence.
Super returns crumble as inflation unleashes wild market ride
Returns are falling deeper into the red as traditional diversification strategies fail, and a worsening inflation picture keeps the pressure on global central banks to push through aggressive interest rate increases.
May 2022
Albanese dismisses reports of $10b deficit blowout
The prospect of higher deficits comes as the cost of Australian government debt hits its highest level since 2014.
April 2022
Debt to jump by $12b on rising borrowing costs
Less than a month since the federal budget was delivered, there has been an increase in borrowing costs and market expectations for interest rate rises.
March 2022
Deficit and inflation fears curb budget relief plans
‘It’s not like there’s lots of extra cash that can be splashed around despite what the Labor Party may think or promise,’ Simon Birmingham says
Albanese spruiks federation reform in election pitch to business
If he becomes Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese will aim to harmonise states’ land planning and development rules to further drive federation reform.