One observer describes next week’s economic roundtable this way: the treasurer “has opened a can of worms – and everybody has ...

A push to host the Quad world summit in Brisbane, including US President Donald Trump, has received the enthusiastic backing ...

The Reserve Bank’s rate cut this week will help relieve many mortgage holders, but it wasn’t all positive news from the bank. It also underscored the serious productivity and economic growth ...

Anthony Albanese is being urged to consider replicating Victorian Labor’s health and social justice policies on a national ...

Australian mortgage holders were promised financial relief when the Reserve Bank of Australia cut rates on Tuesday, but the ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has overestimated the economy’s speed limit, as stagnant productivity threatens to punch a hole in tax ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has recognised the “productivity challenge” ahead for Australia despite a third interest rate cut.

A former Treasury official has called Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ upcoming productivity roundtable a “stitch up” which seeks only ...

Jim Chalmers has welcomed the Reserve Bank’s third rate cut in six months, after the cash rate was cut by 25 basis points to ...

“Four-day working weeks boost the health and happiness of workers while allowing the productivity of businesses to soar,” Greens Senator Barbara Pocock says. For more on the calls for a four-day work ...

One of the nation’s most powerful pension funds wants Treasurer Jim Chalmers to reheat the asset recycling scheme pioneered ...

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has accused Anthony Albanese of becoming distracted by the decision to recognise Palestine at ...