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In news that won’t come as a huge surprise, the vast majority of the 3 million unemployed and underemployed people in Australia come from marginalised diversity groups.

At the end of 2021, the cost of a litre of home-brand milk in an Australian supermarket was about $1.30. It’s now about $1.60. What will it cost at the end of 2022?

CPA Australia's Gavan Ord details five spoilers he's expecting to see on budget night.

Restaurant owners want next week's federal budget to address staff availability and the punishing cost of doing business, six months after pledges in the last budget left one small trader feeling like a "tool" in an election campaign.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the expected 10-year cost of the tax reforms has blown out, but said next week's federal budget is not the place to address those concerns.

Victorian communities have rallied around small businesses affected by severe flooding, as shopfronts in Echuca brace for the chance of further inundation in the coming days.

If productivity is Australia's goal, making sure every business is a digital business needs to be a major priority, writes MYOB's Helen Lea.

COVID-19 lockdowns brought about a huge change in how we work. Or that's what we thought.

The Bank of England has once again needed to intervene in the UK and financial markets everywhere are skittish and lack confidence in governments.

A federal Treasury paper published last week said women get a “motherhood penalty” — their earnings are reduced by more than half for the first five years of being a parent.

Eleven of Australia's 20 largest employment sectors are facing a skills shortage in 2022, the National Skills Commission says.

The Reserve Bank of Australia today lifted the cash rate target 0.25% to 2.6%, undercutting market predictions of a sharper 0.5% hike and signalling a slowdown of the central bank's inflation-busting strategy.