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Big crowds at the Australia-India test series helped lift the ecoomy through the December quarter.

Australia’s longest per capita recession since WWII comes to an end

A record seven quarters of falling GDP per person has finally ended, with new figures showing the economy improving in late 2024.

  • Shane Wright

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Markets are sticking with rate cut predictions despite RBA caution.

Reserve Bank prepares for Trump tariff turmoil

The RBA says rates could rise again as it reveals growing concern about the fallout from Donald Trump’s tariff plans.

  • Shane Wright
Governor Michele Bullock will take the Reserve Bank into its biggest change since it started in 1960.

Reserve Bank overhaul will touch lives of borrowers everywhere

Membership of the RBA board and how it decides interest rates has been unknown to the public for 75 years. It’s all about to change.

  • Shane Wright
House values have risen across the country but rents are easing, according to new data.

Rates fall, house values lift and rents start to ease

The RBA’s first rate cut in almost five years has put a floor under the nation’s property market, but rents continue to ease.

  • Shane Wright
The Reserve Bank, which is led by governor Michele Bullock, last week cut interest rates but made it clear it wasn’t sure it should have cut.

RBA is lost in the frightening territory of full employment

The central bank’s bizarre behaviour last week is a sign that it has lost its bearings and isn’t sure what’s happening in the economy or where it’s headed.

  • Ross Gittins
RBA governor Michele Bullock.

RBA governor says bank was too late to hike interest rates

Michele Bullock says the bank’s heavy-footed response to inflation weighed on the board’s mind as it made the first cut to interest rates in years.

  • Millie Muroi
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The nation’s jobs market remains strong with businesses adding another 54,000 full time workers in January.

Hopes fade for another rate cut as jobs growth strengthens

A record participation rate and an extra 54,000 full-time jobs in January suggest little steam is coming out of the labour market.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
Despite Kmart profits rising, spurred by growth in its private label Anko products, uncertainty over interest rate cuts could bring gloom on the horizon for the big retailer.

‘We’re not out of the woods yet’: Kmart owner says rate cut not enough to entice shoppers

Although consumers continue to flock to Kmart in search of better deals, Wesfarmers’ CEO remains cautious.

  • Cindy Yin
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Life is a highway, and Australia is stuck in second gear

If the Australian economy were a car, it would be Volkswagen bus. But if our living standards are to improve, it needs to purr like a Lamborghini.

  • Shane Wright
Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

The Chalmers offensive: Media blitz after rate cut hints at more cost-of-living relief

The government is keeping the possibility of further cost of living measures on the table as the latest data showed wages growing at the slowest rate in nearly three years.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi

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