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Australia's economic momentum builds despite inflation jitters

With 2025 drawing to a close, there is a range of unexpectedly favourable news on the economy.  
Australia’s economy strengthens as the rest of the world struggles

Last week’s national accounts confirm Australia is back on a sound economic path.  
Aussie retirees in France face pension limbo

Thousands of Australians who retired to France now find themselves trapped in bureaucratic limbo ...  
Cashless loopholes: Treasury confirms exemptions for bankless towns

Major supermarkets and fuel retailers in bankless towns may qualify for exemptions from the ...  
Australia’s welfare watchdog now worse than useless

Recent outcomes on poverty alleviation raise concerns about the merit of Australia’s peak ...  
Jim Chalmers and Katy Gallagher — the quiet achievers of budget repair

From economic wreckage to recovery, Chalmers and Gallagher’s budget repair stands as Labor’s ...  
Contrasting outcomes consign Coalition to the compost heap of history

Prices, jobs, growth and debt all confirm the Coalition parties have run out of puff.  
How rising house prices can help the economy

Rising house prices may sting homebuyers, but the Reserve Bank’s latest research shows they ...  
Australia’s economy shines in a world of deepening gloom

The numbers confirm Australia’s economy is responding to global conditions better than most.  
How the American dollar to euro exchange rate reflects global economic power shifts

The U.S. dollar is a major currency of the global financial ecosystem and its rate against the ...  
Hefty fines and stiff gaol sentences are not stopping the tax cheats

While the Australian Tax Office (ATO) and the courts are successfully prosecuting hundreds of tax ...  
Fatal flaws in Labor's 'cash plan' could bury bankless towns

Grave flaws in the Federal Government's 'cash plan' can be traced back to Anthony Albanese's ref ...  
How global events impact XRP price in real time

Monitoring the XRP price has become essential for traders and investors. You can check it in ...  
Australian super funds quietly fuelling Israel’s war machine

Beneath the surface of moral posturing, Australian retirement funds are helping keep Israel’s ...  
When crime pays: The failure of fines to reform big business

Despite record-breaking penalties, corporate misconduct continues unchecked, suggesting fines ...  
The cost of owning a car is climbing: Here's how to beat the price hikes

Australia’s cost-of-living crisis has hit households in a variety of ways — some expected and ...  
If Australians want nice things, try shunning the destructive newsrooms

The latest economic update strongly endorses Labor and repudiates the media-backed Coalition.  
Burning down the house: Bendigo Bank blacklists towns that built it

Bendigo Bank, founded on the spoils of gold mining, now refuses home loans in dozens of mining ...  
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