Day-time window of free electricity under new offer
Australians will have access to free solar power, regardless of whether they have solar panels on their roof, under a new retail energy offer.
Federal Climate Change and
Read more4 November 2025Economy
Unpaid ‘women’s work’ is worth $427 billion
By Leonora Risse
All those thousands of hours that Australians put towards unpaid household work and care – cooking, cleaning and caring for family members – are an
Read more4 November 2025
Unit approvals lift to reverse recent trend
Housing approvals jumped in September, as the number of apartments planned was more than 50 percent above the number approved the same time last year.
Australian Bureau
Read more3 November 2025
Hub provides employment help for people with disability
A new online hub has been launched to increase the employment opportunities for people with disability.
The Centre for Inclusive Employment’s new suite of online
Read more3 November 2025
The form RBA will consider on Melbourne Cup day
By Stella Huangfu
Inflation jumped 1.3 percent in the September quarter, above economists’ and the Reserve Bank’s own expectations. That is likely to rule out a cut
Read more3 November 2025
Commodity prices heading back to pre-pandemic levels
The World Bank has predicted global commodity prices are set to fall to their lowest levels in six years.
World Bank Group’s Chief Economist and Senior Vice President
Read more31 October 2025
Inflation soars to outside RBA target range
Rising electricity prices drove the annual inflation rate over 3 percent and outside the Reserve Bank’s target range, putting at risk any interest rate cut next
Read more29 October 2025
Sunday storms deemed “significant’ by Insurance Council
Sunday’s wild storms that wreaked havoc across south-east Queensland have been declared a Significant Event by the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA).
ICA CEO Andrew
Read more29 October 2025
5 charts that show the desperate plight of youth
By Intifar Chowdhury
Australia is becoming increasingly unequal.
The story is unmissably generational: young Australians today face a tougher reality than their parents
Read more29 October 2025
Tolerance for commuting grows as travel times top an hour
The average Aussie is now spending more than hour commuting to and from work each day, with travel times busting the 60-minute mark over the past three years.
New data
Read more29 October 2025