Business
The economy
The economy might look better, but it’s still coughing
If the Reserve Bank was a doctor, it would probably say the Australian economy is still a bit sick with sluggish movement and a bit of a fever.
- by Millie Muroi
Latest
Analysis
Middle East at war
The Iran energy nightmare is becoming a reality
Energy analysts modelling a war involving Iran have long feared two developments. Now both are unfolding at once.
- by The Economist
Opinion
Middle East at war
Bad energy: Trump will be forced to end his reckless war very soon
It is astonishing that Donald Trump has created an energy crisis that America is not set up to handle.
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Gender pay gap narrows, but the highest earners still tend to be men
More employers now have a remuneration discrepancy in the target range, meaning a difference of 5 per cent or less between male and female workers.
- by Millie Muroi
Opinion
Trump's America
Trump is pushing America closer to civil war
The US president’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling on his tariffs has compounded an unfolding national tragedy.
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Opinion
Income tax
Why we should probably pay more tax as we get older
There’s a “winning formula” to making this happen. Here’s why we should.
- by Millie Muroi
Delays hit Australia’s biggest battery, hindering green energy shift
Australia’s most powerful battery will not be fully operational until the end of the year, after the $1 billion project suffered a major equipment fault.
- by Nick Toscano
Opinion
Russia-Ukraine war
Deep freeze: Putin has put Russia’s future in doubt
Putin is steering Russia towards a permanent economic winter.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Trade wars
Mad king: Trump just lost his superpower
The US president had access to royal-like powers and he wielded them recklessly. The Supreme Court just took them away.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Pay
Why cost-of-living woes will probably linger for years
It’s simplistic to say we’re all going backwards, but this decade’s inflation has dealt a hefty blow to our spending power. There is, however, a path to sustainable wage growth.
- by Clancy Yeates
‘I have a crazy job’: Meet the architect of Trump’s war on the world
Jamieson Greer has provided the legal and policy framework to overhaul a global system the US president slams as unfair.
- by Ana Swanson