Apr 1, 2025
No back-to-back mortgage relief as RBA holds rates
The Reserve Bank has kept the cash rate at 4.1 per cent, but economists believe more mortgage relief could soon be on the way in May.
Jacob Shteyman
Mar 17, 2025
Budget forecast may offer pre-election ‘reality check’
Short-term budget relief could hurt Australians in the long haul, economists warn, as politicians prepare to open their chequebooks ahead of the election.
Feb 7, 2025
Best state at addressing housing crisis revealed
Planning reforms, streamlined development approvals and a strong focus on land releases are helping South Australia solve the state's housing shortage.
Dec 16, 2024
Two new faces who will influence your mortgage rates
An economics professor and a regional bank chief have been announced as inaugural appointments to the Reserve Bank of Australia's new interest rate-setting board.
Nov 7, 2024
Supply the key to fixing housing, not taxes: Treasury
The focus of the government should be on increasing housing supply rather than cutting tax concessions for property investors, the Treasury chief says.
Sep 19, 2024
Top economist says Libs’ housing plan is a bad idea
Allowing first home buyers to use their super to purchase a home would be one of the worst policy decisions of the last six decades.
Jul 23, 2024
IT outage compensation talk inevitable: CrowdStrike
The Australian president of CrowdStrike has apologised for the cybersecurity company's role in causing an outage that crippled global IT systems. Friday's outage, which hit an estimated 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide, was caused by a logic flaw in a software update sent by cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike to its customers, the company's Australian president Michael Sentonas told Sky News.
