As multinational gas companies reap huge profits from the Iran war, parliamentarians are pressing the treasurer to overhaul LNG taxes in the May budget.
As Angus Taylor prepares for his budget reply, colleagues worry he is falling into management consultancy traps and that the relationship with his shadow treasurer has broken down.
In an interview with The Saturday Paper, the climate change and energy minister reveals the challenges to continued supply from Australia’s largest partners beyond the next month.
The RBA’s rate rise has compounded the impact on soaring fuel costs and can do little to avert a painful combination of slowing growth and rising cost of living.
While in 2024 US President Donald Trump won votes off the back of falling living standards and rising prices, his current war against Iran is creating a far worse economic storm.
The Labor government has quietly announced its plan to protect carbon heavy domestic markets from cheap, dirty imports, in line with EU policy and against US resistance.
A new report suggests policy interventions are starting to ease the worst affordability crisis in a generation – but it’s a different story for those on the lowest incomes.
Advocates say more needs to be done as the tweaks made to superannuation tax offsets for low-income earners will barely help the quarter of women who retire in poverty.
