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Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... won't be off the charts it will be a respectable 1.25%, while inflation won't blow out because of the tariffs and the labour market will be stable. The main challenge in the market is the level of debt in the US economy, and particularly government ...

Unemployment falls, more women enter the workforce

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
... unemployed decreasing by 10,000 people, the unemployment rate fell by 0.1 percentage points to 4.2% in July," ABS head of labour statistics Sean Crick said. The growth was driven by full-time employment, which was up by 60,000 people, with a 36,000 person ...

RBA cuts rates, experts debate next moves

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... bringing the official cash rate down to 3.6%. The RBA board noted that the easing in inflation alongside a softening in the labour market led to the decision to continue with its gradual approach to bringing down the cash rate. "Inflation has fallen ...

Chalmers calls for solutions, not problems

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... front, the paper outlines trends in capital deepening, competition and dynamism, skills development and matching in the labour market, and our changing industry composition. "These challenges are longstanding and global in nature, but require local attention ...

PC outlines key reforms to boost clean energy investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025
... climate-related risks are significant and growing, but boosting resilience can reduce the human impact, while limiting labour productivity losses from heatwaves and the financial costs of disaster recovery. The report called on the government to lead ...

RBA cut all but certain: Experts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... cutting the cash rate at its August meeting with potentially a further cut later in the year if the trends in CPI and the labour market continue to ease. Investors looking to lock in high fixed rate returns in bonds should act quickly as yields are likely ...

Economic growth has 'moderated': CommSec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
... by a combination of slowing inflation, falling interest rates, rising real wages, robust government spending and a solid labour market. "But economic growth has moderated, held back by slowing public investment, population growth and household spending. ...

Treasury opens consult on non-compete reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... not just hurt the affected workers, but also the entire economy. Improved job mobility promotes a flexible, more dynamic labour market, by improving the allocation of labour to more productive firms."

Bullock reaffirms RBA's 'gradual easing' policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... are closely linked, so the focus is on bringing inflation down in a relatively gradual way so as to limit the easing in labour market conditions. "Much of the rebalancing of demand and supply in the labour market that has occurred in recent years has ...

AI, corporate tax, skilled workers key to productivity: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... productivity problem. This is in light of Australia's productivity performance having stalled in more recent years. Labour productivity growth, for example, has averaged just below 0.4% per year since 2015, compared to the 60-year average of 1.6% ...