Finance

the Asia Pacific region, by advancing women’s equality, could add a collective $4.5 trillion to annual GDPs in 2025, which would be a 12% increase over the business-as-usual trajectory.

Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg is meeting with his state and territory counterparts today. Top of their agenda? The recycling crisis precipitated by the China “ban”.

Australia is ranked in the top third of countries in almost all indices measuring the best countries to retire, according to an analysis of nine separate ageing and retirement indices. The problem is, experts contriving such indices can’t agree about which ingredients should be included and which are most important.

If you’ve suspected there’s a growing cohort of Australian women owning their own businesses, the latest 2016 Census data proves your instincts are right.

With each state taking a different approach to which days are public holidays over Easter, businesses need to ensure they’re sticking to the…

Australian unions are pushing for a sharp increase in the minimum wage, but business and retail associations say dramatically lifting wages …

By Zoe Staines, Queensland University of Technology

Australia is missing its target to halve the unemployment gap between Indigenous and …

By Lisa Denny, University of Tasmania

While Tasmania is currently experiencing its highest rate of population growth since the global fin…

One in three Aussie small businesses believe the economy is growing, but they don’t believe the federal government is to thank for the succe…

A plan to install 50,000 home batteries and solar panels in homes across South Australia homes marks a new chapter in the state’s relationsh…

By Richard Holden, UNSW

In this column, UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden looks at changes to how inflation is calc…

By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will hold out the prospect of 2018 as a year of “rewards”…