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Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the figures were strong compared to other economies.

Rates may hold for rest of year as Australians struggle under rising costs

Private business investment also jumped by 6 per cent in the March quarter, driven by a 30-year-high increase in machinery and equipment, much of which is used to build data centres.

  • Shane Wright

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While Operation Epic Fury was militarily successful, securing a settlement, peace deal or even just a framework agreement has been less of a triumph.

Trump’s war is starting to strangle the world

The impact of the global energy shock sparked by the war is starting to hit economies. And there is more pain coming.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
The new fund will hold a range of convenience retail properties, from supermarkets, to pubs and service stations.

The economy might look better, but it’s still coughing

If the Reserve Bank was a doctor, it would probably say the Australian economy is still a bit sick with sluggish movement and a mild fever.

  • Millie Muroi
Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Sorry folks, this rosy report is as good as it gets this year

Spending, especially among the states, is also growing on everyday services including health, education and policing.

  • Shane Wright
Consumer spending helped bolster the US’s GDP numbers this quarter.

America’s increasingly ‘K-shaped’ economy is difficult to reconcile

Donald Trump was excited by a sizzling estimate of US economic growth in the September quarter. He might be disappointed by the Federal Reserve Board’s response to it.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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The economy is picking up pace. What about the speed limit?

Some have warned the Australian economy is pushing up against its speed limit. But we might just be able to shift towards the fast lane if that speed limit changes.

  • Millie Muroi
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Illegal cigarettes on the black market are on the rise.

‘Is this Soviet Russia?’ Australia is getting smoked by its tobacco fail

The underground trade in illegal tobacco has become a growing cancer for the Australian economy. It’s now so large that it is distorting our national accounts because its sales can’t be measured.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Paula Taylor, this year’s recipient of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Primary Schools.

It took a teacher to put CSIRO tragedy in a nutshell: Why would her students pursue science?

I wish I had an easy answer for her – now that the CSIRO will shed 350 research staff.

  • Ryan Winn
So far as Donald Trump has a worldview, it seems to echo a version of the world in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

A report card on the Trump presidency

A year after being elected, Donald Trump is running out of time to deliver on his biggest promise to voters.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Australia has invited the US to maintain its submarines, such as this Virginia class boat, in WA.

Australia invites US to use WA to maintain its nuclear submarines

The move to let the US use the Henderson facility, which the federal government has committed $12 billion to build, could help buttress the AUKUS pact.

  • Nick Bonyhady