The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has cut the official cash rate by 0.75% over the past two monetary policy meetings. Despite ...

Stocks are overboughterer. They are not priced for Trump tariffs. The Market Ear has more. Rising wedge Did NASDAQ fool ...

The Actuaries Institute reported in August that 1.6 million Australian households were experiencing financial stress as a result of escalating home insurance costs. This was a 360,000-household rise, ...

Westpac with the note. The Leading Index growth rate has been slightly negative for the best part of a year now. That in itself is fairly rare – this is one of the longest periods of ‘middling’ reads ...

The opposition has opened a second front in the fight over energy policy by pledging to include gas in the capacity investment scheme, the federal government’s flagship policy spurring investment in ...

This month, we have received four critical pieces of data showing that Australian dwelling construction is sick, pointing to worsening shortages. First, only 166,200 dwellings were approved for ...

Labor’s first federal budget, released in October 2022, projected net overseas migration (NOM) of 470,000 over the first two years (FY 23 and 24). Instead, Labor delivered around one million NOM over ...

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has been growing in cost by 20% and now costs nearly $50 billion a year. Recent projections from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) suggested that ...

The worst PM of our lifetimes is cashing in: Anthony Albanese should be congratulated. As the son of a single mother, ...

Following a strategic review of the student visa program in 2011 (the “Knight Review”), the Gillard government significantly ...

New Zealanders are experiencing one of the deepest recessions in modern times. As of Q2 2024, real per capita GDP had ...

Builder Jason Janssen, chairman of Home Builders Action Group, has described the utter “decimation” of the home building ...