With the Federal election now in full swing, it is timely to raise the question of why Australia is now becoming one of the least affordable places in the world to own a home and its connection to the spiralling government taxes on property.
The largest South Korean investor in Australia and one of the world’s biggest buyers of LNG has attacked political intervention in the domestic market and questioned whether it can rely on multibillion-dollar deals it has struck with local producers to buy energy.
Global gas giants said on Tuesday an election campaign proposal by Australia’s opposition coalition that would force producers to direct more export gas into the domestic market would deter investment without tackling looming shortages.
The role of the Greens and teals in the 2025 federal election is striking fear into the hearts of some business leaders. Others just want to get on with governing.
Small business owners have launched an election blitz of marginal seats, pressuring Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton to slash company taxes for mum-and-dad operators.
Governments can’t make it rain but they could rid South Australia’s struggling farmers of much pain at the stroke of a pen, writes Gina Rinehart.
Treasury’s expectation that the budget will return to surplus in a decade is based on “fanciful” assumption, new research authored by the e61 Institute has claimed.
They say timing is everything in politics. In February, prior to the State election, Premier Roger Cook led the charge to have the Federal Government’s economy-destroying Nature Positive agenda halted so as not to have it undermine his re-election chances.
CME’s Economic Contribution Factsheets combine data from publicly available sources with survey data obtained from our members to provide a snapshot of the WA resources sector’s contribution to Western Australia, its regions, and our nation.
When our resources giant, BHP, ‘the Big Australian’, reported last month that it seeks its future prosperity much more in the Americas (north and south) than under home soil, it was not only on the basis that these resources provided an appropriate and potentially rewarding opportunity.
Business groups get back to basics, warning that the economy will suffer unless union power is curbed, payroll tax abolished and major projects approved without delay.
Cultural heritage evidence with an uncertain provenance would not go unchallenged in the Federal Court as part of a native title case. So why is the bar for the acceptance of oral evidence much lower?