Cost of Living

While the figure is well below the $22.1 billion surplus in 2022-23, it marks the first back-to-back surplus in nearly two decades.

The digital ID system will make cybersecurity ’simpler, safer, and more secure,' says Finance Minister Katy Gallagher.

Six in 10 shoppers reported spending more on housing, insurance, and groceries compared to the same time last year.

The treasurer should have stayed the course. He needs to save every bit of money he can.

Western Australia has delivered its sixth budget surplus in a row and says there’s more to come.

Treasurer Tim Pallas says the budget is about helping families and address inflation.

The cash rate has been left at 4.35 percent again.

The government is under pressure to reel in Australia’s growing debt burden.

Families with children account for almost 44 percent of all resident living in apartments nationwide, according to the 2016 Census.

Customers will be eligible for direct cash payments as part of the agreement.

Student Accommodation Council noted that rents began rising in 2020 when migration was prohibited by travel bans and the majority of students returned home.

The construction of new dwellings across Victoria has dipped 3 percent from 12 months ago and is expected to continue to decrease in the succeeding years.

Bonza was the latest entrant into Australia’s super-competitive airline market.

Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is calling for pay rise based on gender for women in ‘key feminised industries.’

Meanwhile, federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has said the drop in annual inflation occurred under Labor.

An expert said the Greens’ call was unfair to the many Australians who did not go to university and whose taxes are paying for these degrees.

A reduction in royalties and a $96 billion infrastructure pipeline means more government borrowing will be needed.

Jim Chalmers says the May 14 budget will place a ’real emphasis on economic security' amidst multiple concerns about the global economy.

The Australian Food and Grocery Council said local producers were under pressure from declining profit margin and capital investment and product offshoring.