Economy

Under a new CEO, Woolworths is fighting to regain competiveness with duopoly rival Coles, just as discounter Aldi appears set to transform the market.

They are some of the country’s biggest corporate tax avoiders. Now their directors make up the board advising the government on innovation incentives.

Lost in the tax debate are the billions hidden in the cash economy, and the complex systems concealing the incomes of the very rich.

Twenty years after he won government, the economic and political damage of John Howard’s leadership is becoming clearer.

The mining sector rides waves of China's confidence, while the rest of the country enjoys jobs growth and affordable prices. Does it make sense to speak of an ‘Australian economy’?

A strong connection with Germany and investment in emerging technologies have seen Lucy Turnbull drive the innovation debate.

Malcolm Turnbull is signing up for global clean energy innovation, while pushing to dismantle the local sector’s funding.

Is developing a driverless car industry the answer to South Australia’s unemployment crisis, or a harbinger of far greater job losses across the nation?

Do US concerns over the sale of the Port of Darwin to a Chinese company suggest those who question foreign investment on strategic and security grounds have a point?

The PM’s Big Australia vision, with high levels of immigration, requires a greater urban density than Australians are accustomed to. It also means serious infrastructure shortfalls in our cities cannot be ignored.