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Utes, harvesters, production lines: How Australian businesses have gone machinery mad

The latest GDP data shows business investment in equipment and machinery grew at its fastest rate since 2009.

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Aussie businesses are hiring again, but who’s taking the jobs?

The sheer volume of ads in windows throughout Melbourne shows the jobs market, which was hit hard by COVID, is getting tighter again.

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Move over toilet paper: There’s now a shortage in microchips, and this will be a lot more costly

They were a boring commodity until recently. So how have we ended up with a shortage of silicon microchips in 2021?

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Melbourne SMEs to suffer the most in the post-JobKeeper era

There’s still a big gap left by JobKeeper in Victoria, after repeated lockdowns left Melbourne businesses economically vulnerable.

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RBA chasing “full employment” for the first time since the 1970s

The Reserve Bank of Australia, once famously inflation-focused, has been talking about full employment for a while — with a goal now set for unemployment levels that were last seen in the 1970s.

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Going regional: Opportunity could grow for small-town businesses as people flee cities

Australians have been fleeing the city at never-before-seen levels, and naturally lockdowns are a big part of the explanation.

Credit is out, debit is in: How COVID-19 has influenced consumer behaviour

The COVID-19 pandemic keeps sorting out winners from losers. And the humble debit card is now a huge winner.

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Australian businesses are hiring again: Here’s why

Hiring in Australian businesses is roaring, raising hopes that 2021 will see the cohort left jobless by the pandemic move back into work.

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In the face of a cataclysmic pandemic and deep recession, Australian house prices are back up: Here’s why

House prices are back up. Are you even surprised? This is Australia, where the family home is as well protected from price falls as from fire.

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In anticipation of a US election result, markets globally are yo-yoing: Here’s why

The US election is all up in the air and the future is written in the markets. Let's examine their entrails and see what we find.

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How do we reverse Australia’s retail vacancy apocalypse? Here’s one idea

Australia's high streets are staring down a vacancy epidemic. Is there a solution that benefits landlords, creatives and customers to boot?

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The government’s JobMaker scheme “is all about jobs”… that would have existed anyway

The 2020-21 budget includes a new program called JobMaker which the government claims “will support around 450,000 jobs for young people”.

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