Finance

The Tasmanian government will fund a new small business incubation program in this year’s state budget, in a move welcomed by small business advocates. 

According to the NSW energy minister Matt Kean, the best way to make green hydrogen commercially viable in Australia and NSW is to get to scale as quickly as possible.

COSBOA argues that while there are serious challenges facing small businesses and the communities in which they operate, there are also potential promising solutions.

There is still plenty of money to be made in a carbon-constrained world, especially if you can get an early advantage on your competitors.

The RBA thinks we're heading for the same rut of low wages growth as before the pandemic. That leaves workers behind and unlikely to catch up for a long time.

A highly anticipated report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has confirmed that the effects of human-caused climate change have well and truly arrived in Australia.

Nationally, women lost jobs at a faster rate than men, with payroll jobs held by women falling by 2.8%. Young people were the age demographic hit hardest during the period.

These economists are not wholly pessimistic about the outcomes for SMEs, and say the return to economic growth is paved with vaccines.

Published research on small payment incentives shows they are extraordinarily effective, often more effective than big ones.

A working paper has found that Uber has greatly reduced traffic accidents and drunk driving. But how do we tally up the total social value of a technological innovation?

Australia is out of step with other advanced economies as inflation jumps, leaving the Reserve Bank's preferred measures wanting.

Despite the constant demands for the restoration of JobKeeper, the government is holding fire and instead trying to gauge the scale of the economic hit of Sydney's lockdown to the wider economy.