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Sydney’s preliminary clearance rate picked up to 67.5 per cent in the week to Saturday from 59.5 per cent a week earlier.

How Canberra’s most popular book might influence my hunt for a first home

Can two American journalists help me buy my first home? Probably not. But they’ve got an abundantly good idea.

  • Millie Muroi

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Albanese is the conservative who mugged the Liberals. Let’s hope he seizes the moment

Labor’s landslide success has opened up an opportunity for the government to advocate and implement more substantial and transformative policies than it might otherwise have been prepared to produce.

  • Shaun Carney
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, ACTU secretary Sally McManus.

Unions say index super tax hit to protect ordinary workers

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is under pressure from the union movement to overhaul his proposed hit on wealthy superannuation account holders.

  • Shane Wright
Treasurer Jim Chalmers admits the progressive side of politics is getting in its own way, strangling its ideas.

Australia’s lawsuit over rare minerals is a geopolitical litmus test

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is trying to protect access to resources that are critical for our military technologies and the transition to clean energy.

  • John Coyne and Justin Bassi
Brought to book? Treasurer Jim Chalmers at the National Press Club.

More is more: The big idea that’s inspired Jim Chalmers (huzzah!)

I had to read Abundance when I saw the treasurer and half of the cabinet had devoured it. How far they’ll take the book’s advice is not abundantly clear.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has launched legal action to tackle Chinese influence over Australian mining companies.

Chalmers hits China-linked companies with landmark lawsuit over crucial military minerals

The US and its allies are increasingly alarmed over China’s control of the global trade in minerals needed for military hardware such as warplanes and missiles.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Bonyhady
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Treasurer David Janetzki and Premier David Crisafulli with the 2025-26 state budget papers.

Queensland demands GST reform as state faces years in the red

Queensland’s LNP government has demanded a bigger slice of the GST pie, as its first budget forecast deficits until at least the next state election.

  • Cameron Atfield
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Donald Trump have not met face-to-face.

Chalmers to push tariffs case on Trump team, still no meeting for Albanese

The prime minister has not met Trump face to face more than five months into the US leader’s second presidency.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned US turmoil is affecting global markets.

There used to be five big risks to the Australian budget. That’s grown

For the first time, the treasurer has flagged the risk posed by US government bonds, which are a cornerstone of the global financial system.

  • Shane Wright

No backing out now for Labor. Chalmers has set the tone, and the goal, for term two

The Albanese government sees a window of opportunity for reform through consensus politics. But will the Coalition smash it?

  • Sean Kelly

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