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Treasurer Jim Chalmers

The big tax changes likely to cross the treasurer’s desk

From abolishing stamp duty to slashing income tax, here are some ideas expected to be presented to Jim Chalmers after he opened the door to tax changes.

  • Millie Muroi

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Banks are working through regulatory implications as agentic AI becomes part of the standard financial services tech stack.

The world of work has been transformed. What happens next is still up to us

What sort of society do we want to live in when artificial intelligence hits its stride? That is the conversation we need now.

  • Aruna Sathanapally
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will warn the global economy faces perilous times.

Democratic world is vulnerable, Chalmers warns

Jim Chalmers admits the economy and budget bottom line still need to be wrangled into shape as the government sharpens focus on improving lives of “working people”.

  • Millie Muroi
WA Premier Roger Cook.

Is WA in line for another public holiday?

Premier Roger Cook said changes to the public holiday regime could take place as early as next year, but were more likely for 2027.

  • Hamish Hastie
Australia is facing a “great jobs boom” with employers facing the stiffest competition for workers in almost half a century as the balance of power shifts to workers and drives up salaries.

If bulldusting about productivity was productive, we’d all be billionaires

Usually if a business isn’t improving its output, the managers aren’t doing their jobs. Lobbyists would have you believe it’s all the government’s fault.

  • Ross Gittins
Andrew Leigh, newly appointed assistant minister for productivity.

‘Too hard to build’: Albanese government slams local councils over housing shortfall

Top-heavy universities and an embattled council have been singled out as the government promises to improve Australians’ quality of life.

  • Millie Muroi
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An expected slowdown will not be enough to bring forward RBA interest rate cuts amid fears inflation has stopped falling.

Why we need our economists to try a lot harder

Economists are great believers in innovation, and they’d like to see a lot more of it. But they don’t practise what they preach.

  • Ross Gittins
Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers cannot win an election with one rate cut alone.

If we want to be a more productive nation, we would do well to follow the British example

The Albanese government has a unique opportunity to turbocharge the key mechanism towards a better standard of living: productivity.

  • Bran Black
If governments pushed for bigger pay rises, it might get productivity improvements.

Want greater productivity? Set wages to rise by 3.5 per cent a year

Rather than telling workers real wages can’t rise until we get more productivity, we should try reversing the process and make the cost of labour grow.

  • Ross Gittins
Economist Ross Garnaut, director of The Superpower Institute, addresses attendees during the opening day of Climate Action Week 2025 at the University of Technology.

Ross Garnaut: Prophet with a sunny vision of our glorious future

The present fashion of obsessing with productivity improvement for its own sake is counterproductive and probably won’t achieve much.

  • Ross Gittins

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