Peter Dutton, who wants to be prime minister, has been taking aim at “wokeness.” But Australia’s electorate isn’t America’s, ...

Jim Chalmers has told business chiefs to turn away from "culture" wars and help Labor rebuild the economy after the inflation crisis.

The Australian share market ended higher on Wednesday after the latest quarterly inflation data renewed hopes of an interest ...

“That can have the effect of distorting the downward pressure of inflation.” Greg Brown is the Canberra Bureau chief. He previously spent five years covering federal politics for The ...

In an election that will be dominated by cost of living issues, a rate cut ... that you have to pay for much lower inflation with much higher unemployment. Australia has shown that there is ...

Despite the independence of central banks, there’s no getting politics out of monetary policy. In Australia, the best inflation report in more than two years for the December quarter is now ...

Some economists worry that both sides of politics will unleash major spending initiatives during the election campaign given the tightness of the race. Meanwhile, currency weakness could fuel imported ...

according to the latest The Australian Financial Review/Freshwater Strategy poll, with 73 per cent of voters nominating cost of living as one of their top three concerns. With inflation falling ...

There has been political refusal to face up to the end of Australia’s great prosperity boom. Michaela Pollock Returning inflation to the Reserve Bank’s 2 per cent to 3 per cent target while ...

At the same time, Australia will soon be headed to the polls and economists fear that both sides of politics will be tempted to unleash major spending initiatives to try to sway what’s expected to be ...

Donald Trump has declared a new age of transformation and restoration. While Trump’s revolution will not sweep Australia, its ...

Otherwise, his focus has been clamping down on immigration, which he described as his “No. 1 issue” shortly after taking the oath of office. “They all said inflation was the No. 1 issue.