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In 2022-23, the Mint made more than 110 million Australian coins. In 2023-24, it made about 47 million.

The coin that Australia’s ‘Uber for cash’ wants to kill

Millions of coins sit in wallets, banks, cash register tills, back pockets and underneath sofa cushions – and they face an unknown fate.

  • Millie Muroi

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Home value growth has likely passed its peak according to CoreLogic research director Tim Lawless.

The good news for renters and the bad news for mortgagors

Australian property values crept up 4.9 per cent across 2024 but the year ended on a sour note.

  • Millie Muroi
US debt-to-GDP ratios, which compares general government debt to the size of the economy, are expected to grow to 94.4 per cent by the end of 2011, Fitch says

The dirtiest word in economics is neither good nor bad

It gets politicians and the public agitated, but managing this essential element of every economy is crucial to nation building.

  • Allison Schrager

The RBA chose to sit on its hands in 2024. Here’s why

If and when the RBA does cut interest rates, it will provide relief to millions. But it will also bring sighs of despair from others.

  • Shane Wright
The International Monetary Fund says a major package of changes, from tax to land supply, is needed to make Australian housing more affordable.

Five Australian cities are now among world’s top 20 most expensive

The International Monetary Fund says nothing short of major reform can change the fact that Australian housing, across all international metrics, is some of the most expensive in the world.

  • Shane Wright
People feeling the pinch are resorting to eating basic meals at home and dining out less.

What’s happened to the cost of living is trickier than you think

While we complain about “the cost of living”, the mugs who elected Donald Trump again were on about “inflation”. Aren’t they the same thing? Maybe, maybe not.

  • Ross Gittins
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The RBA may not cut rates in its first post-Christmas meeting.

The RBA might delay cutting rates – again. There’s a silver lining for some

Internal documents suggest the Reserve Bank may have to delay interest rate cuts – and its economists understand why that’s confusing for regular Australians.

  • Shane Wright

America and Australia tell a tale of two pandemics, and their political outcomes

While Australians challenged fireworks cancellations last week, the richest man in the world was busy lobbying America’s president-elect for a shutdown.

  • Sean Kelly
Treasurer Jim Chalmers at a press conference on the MYEFO data this week in Canberra.

Public patience wearing thin on Labor’s economic vision

The question is whether the treasurer’s talk of a soft landing will convince voters that the government is doing enough to alleviate the hardship they are experiencing.

  • The Age's View
The nation is expected to add 4.1m residents over the next decade, according to new forecasts.

More migrants, fewer babies as population heads for 31.3 million

Australia is expected to be home to an extra 4.1 million people by the middle of the next decade, despite falling fertility and an increase in deaths.

  • Shane Wright

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