Ben Carroll took over as the premier of Victoria in late July. He previously served as the state’s deputy premier from 2023. As a result, he was involved in all major decisions. Since he became ...

War headlines today. Iran claims two tankers ablaze in Hormuz were hit by mines. Iran says 19 dead after US attacks. Readying response. Trump doesn’t care less about negotiations. Bombs two Iranian ...

DXY is doing a whole lot of sideways. AUD is threatening to jump above CNY and challenge the long-term resistance line at 72 cents. The twins of doom are opposites again. AI metals have no fear, or is ...

When total Australian federal government debt recently ticked over the $1 trillion mark, it triggered a war of words over who should take the lion’s share of responsibility for reaching this ...

Roy Morgan sees 18-year highs in mortgage stress. New research from Roy Morgan shows 32.5% of mortgage holders ‘At Risk’ of ‘mortgage stress’ in July 2026, up 2.2% points from June 2026 and after ...

Amid the collapse of mega Australian developer Bathla, administrators have revealed that the company owes $3.3 billion, plus the deposits of thousands of buyers of off-the-plan properties. An editoria ...

Australia’s productivity growth over the past decade has been among the poorest in the OECD, hampering economic and per capita growth and contributing to the nation’s inflationary pressures. Australia ...

RBC says buy gold. We’ve stayed consistent this year, sticking with the forecasts we published back in December of last year, and for good reason. Repeatedly in our weekly “Commodity Comment, ” we ...

War headlines today. US attacks southern Iran with a BB gun. Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says if Iran can’t export oil, nobody can but admits some is getting through. Iran ...

To great fanfare. This is not quite as salubrious as it seems. This is installed capacity, not actual electricity produced. On that measure, solar and wind are still well behind coal. Be aware that ...

Australia has experienced the biggest migration boom in the nation’s history. According to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data, 1,100 net migrants per day landed in the first 3.5 ...

Various bank economists predicted that the economy would slide back into a per capita recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real GDP per capita, ahead of Wednesday’s Q2 ...