Increasingly, state and local governments are legislating to curb the use of properties for short-stay accommodation, in hopes of easing a historically tight and costly rental market.
As anti-immigration sentiment is politicised around the world, new arrivals to Australia are being portrayed as detrimental to the economy – when in fact the opposite is true.
ANALYSIS: To boost Australian productivity, the government must look beyond the lower-tax and free-market solutions that have long reinforced its downward trend.
Amid pressure from tech giants and the promise of massive productivity gains, the industry and innovation minister is stepping back from a plan for new laws to regulate the use of AI.
Former Treasury secretary Ken Henry, who joins next month’s productivity forum, revisits the war against a carbon tax and explains the economic advantages of environmental protection.
Australia has little trouble attracting international IT students, but employment is proving difficult for graduates, despite the need to fill a quarter of a million jobs in the next five years.
The focus on a PM meeting with the US president ignores the realities of his chaotic stance on trade and greatly overstates its significance, insiders say.
The Tasmanian Liberal government is in crisis and a snap election likely to be called as the premier clings to plans for a stadium that will bankrupt the state.
