Setting financial goals, even if only modest, can help us to prioritise, make better decisions, and regain a sense of control. Here’s how to set – and achieve – them.
As Medicare turns 40 years old this month, it’s important to reflect on its achievements, and also what needs to be done to remodel it.
So far, Israel’s war in Gaza hasn’t greatly disrupted global supply chains. But the situation could quickly shift along many fault lines.
In less than two years, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has gone from clear choice to fighting for majority support in the polls. What happened?
Despite the cost-of-living crisis, Australians are embracing the Christmas spirit, with plans to buy more gifts for friends, and increase the amount they spend.
Given its remit and membership, the inquiry is unlikely to break new ground – and has met fierce opposition even before starting its work.
The cost-of-living crisis is fuelling a surge in shoplifting, and a majority of younger consumers see it as “a little” to “completely” justifiable, a new retail study has found.
The leaders of Russia and China are skipping the G20 summit, but their absences – and rifts over the Ukraine war – will have a big influence on the proceedings.
Without innovation in all five building phases, the industry won’t have the capacity to meet market demands or to deliver the social and affordable housing the government is promising.
Although Michele Bullock has been with the bank for four decades, the past two have been in areas remote from interest rate setting, meaning she won’t feel compelled to defend the mistakes of the past.
Until crucial steps are taken, the current “system” of payment of academic casuals or sessional staff will continue to be an unproductive source of contestation.
The budget’s back in surplus after 15 years, briefly, and there are measures to ease cost-of-living pressures, but can it tame inflation?
Just as we have the country’s smartest legal minds on the High Court, and our best health practitioners setting vaccine policy, the review wants the best economists to set monetary policy.
It’s a myth that only household price increases cause inflation. Consumer behaviour may also be a factor.
Households and businesses are set for more hip-pocket pain after regulators flagged hefty electricity price rises in four Australian states.
This week on Monash University's “What Happens Next?” podcast, meet the change-makers on the front lines of food.
Despite Republican hecklers, US President Joe Biden delivered an optimistic speech focused mostly on domestic issues that set the stage for a 2024 re-election bid.
Like Britain recently, Australia has had more than its share of leadership excesses and upheavals over the past 15 years, but could that phase be passing?
The first Labor budget in nine years, delivered against a grim economic backdrop, contains few surprises as it charts Australia's way through uncertain times and high-cost hazards.
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has kept poverty and inequality on the policy agenda.
A change of federal government in Australia presents an opportunity to focus on schools as a whole and help create a sustainable environment for teachers to thrive.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has delivered a “double-whammy” interest rate rise, and it’s likely there’ll be up to five more to come in 2022.
The government used to set interest rates, but no longer does. If the UAP really did try to deliver on an election promise to cap interest rates at 3% for five years, what would the consequences be?
Governor Philip Lowe says it’s “not unreasonable” to expect the cash rate to climb to 2.5%. That’s an extra $600 to service a $500,000 mortgage.
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