Finance

Wages growth is not expected to rise above inflation until 2024 the earliest, meaning that workers can’t expect a real pay increase for four years.

The introduction of WA-grown fresh produce to more than 10 stores across greater Jakarta was made possible by an free trade agreement signed last year.

Just because insurance numbers are solid and straightforward, we shouldn’t ignore that natural disasters have broader flow-on economic effects that can’t really be insured against.

A closer look at the digital economy strategy and funding announcements, compared with what other countries are doing, shows we may not be so well placed after all.

Here's a look at who got a cash injection last night... and who missed out.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has come good on his historic promise to keep spending way beyond the crisis, to drive the unemployment rate down below where it was when the pandemic started.

Employers will need to make superannuation guarantee payments for more employees from next year, with the federal government moving to remove the $450 monthly minimum income threshold. 

If the government can’t win an election with this cash splash, it should give up politics, writes Bernard Keane.

The federal government has used the budget to announce plans for a new mandatory franchise disclosure registry to help prospective franchisees access the information they need.

The RBA is not going to let up on pushing unemployment down and wage growth back up to where it believes it should be, not even for growing concern about climbing home prices.

The current rate of vaccination is likely to set back the opening of Australia’s borders to the world by an extra 81 days, the report says, which will cost approximately $16.4 billion.

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