Gareth Hutchens is a business and economics reporter based in Canberra. Prior to joining the ABC he was economics editor of the West Australian and worked as an economics and political reporter for Guardian Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age. You can follow Gareth on Twitter: @grhutchens
The "inflation nutters" in New Zealand adopted inflation targeting first, and Australia pinched their idea. But the policy has unresolved issues, a former RBA deputy governor says.
Local stocks end lower as the retail sector gets hit and Woolworths and Wesfarmers trade ex-dividend. See how the trading day unfolded on the business blog.
President Donald Trump opens the door to "state-run capitalism" in the US, while Australia keeps pumping house prices.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers won't be making big reforms to the tax system immediately. He knows major policy changes can have unintended consequences.
Biotech giant CSL saw its share price tank on Tuesday, which dragged the ASX down. Look back on the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News markets blog.
Australia's decline in productivity, and falling business investment, has policymakers worried. It's why they're meeting in Canberra this week.
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As industry leaders and the federal government prepare for next week's economic summit, two economists have started a national conversation by arguing that, to make Australia's tax system fairer, we should consider taxing home owner-occupancy. Here's what that means.
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Income inequality in Australia is worse than it appears when the effect of home ownership is taken into account.
Australia is now a "home owner's welfare state", leading economists argue, and if the tax treatment of housing were reformed, the nation as a whole would benefit.
The RBA has cut interest rates to 3.6 per cent.The ASX 200 notched another record close, while the Aussie dollar fell to around 65 US cents.
When the RBA cuts rates, it drives property prices higher. What does it mean for housing affordability?
The local share market closed more than 1.2 per cent higher, with all sectors gaining ground, following a strong rally on Wall Street overnight. Look back on the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News markets blog.
The Productivity Commission says we should hike taxes on oligopolies and cut taxes on small businesses if we want the economy to flourish.
The "trimmed mean" measure of inflation — the Reserve Bank's preferred measure of underlying inflation — has also declined.
The ASX closes slightly higher as traders evaluate the US-EU trade deal, and despite a new threat by US President Donald Trump to implement a 15-20 per cent "baseline" tariff. Catch up on the day's events with ABC News live markets blog.
Some of the harshest criticism of high immigration is coming from people who work for the exact organisations that have supported high immigration for decades.
An RBA paper suggests the rapid growth in foreign students post-pandemic did not play a big role in pushing rents higher.
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock says despite last month's surprise jump in the unemployment rate, the numbers matched the RBA's recent forecasts from May.
Ken Henry, a former treasury secretary, says the media has to hold Australia's political system accountable for its policy failures
ABS data shows Australia's unemployment rate rose by 0.2 percentage points in June, after the Reserve Bank surprised markets last week by keeping interest rates on hold.
Australia's environment protection laws have both failed to stop the degradation of nature and also held back economic growth, former Treasury secretary Ken Henry warns.
Australian stocks closed on a fresh record high on Tuesday, while the Reserve Bank proposed an end to credit and debit card surcharges, which would save consumers and businesses $1.2 billion a year. Catch up with our live markets blog.
Older generations will transfer trillions of dollars in wealth to younger generations in coming decades, but how will it be managed?
RBA deputy governor Andrew Hauser says Australia needs a new "Golden Age" of economic thinking to solve the acute problems hitting our economy.
The federal government's economic think tank says Australia will likely be a winner from Donald Trump's tariffs if it does not retaliate and that we would be better off by removing more of the nation's remaining tariffs.