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2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

How 12 people you probably don’t know knocked down Donald Trump

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2026-09-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Government closes in on $100m social media fines

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2026-09-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

What six failed predictions taught Australia about its future

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2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

Reserve Bank in ‘nightmare’ position as it considers another rate rise in November

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2026-10-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

RBA on notice to hold off on rate rises as jobless rate hits 5-year high

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2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

Australia’s population hits 27.9 million as newborn numbers dip

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2026-09-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 According to realestate.com.au, a median-income household earning $125,000 a year could afford just 12 per cent of all homes sold in the 2025-26 financial year. assertive

2026-09-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Social media companies could be slugged with fines of more than $100 million if they fail to do more to keep under-16s off their sites under an Albanese government bill set to go before the Senate on Tuesday. assertive

2026-09-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Contractual handcuffs that prevent people on less than $190,000 from moving to a better-paying or more interesting job would be banned under proposed laws to be unveiled by the federal government on Monday. mixed

2026-09-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The cost of the age pension to taxpayers will fall even as more than 9 million people reach retirement age over the next 40 years, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will reveal on Wednesday amid accusations that the next election will be an existential fight for the future of superannuation. assertive

2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Throw in the AI building boom that Westpac analysts this week estimated could be worth $110 billion by 2029 while unleashing up to $50 billion in related renewable energy and the private sector is also adding to inflation pressures. assertive

2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 But the new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show the government still faces a battle to reach its own budget forecasts amid accusations from the Coalition that the country is on an immigration “highway to hell”. assertive

2026-09-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 There is one certainty about Jim Chalmers’ upcoming intergenerational report – it will be wrong. assertive

2026-09-27 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 While Bullock’s predecessor, Philip Lowe, had done a handful of press conferences during the pandemic, the event on February 6, 2024, marked a critical turning point in how the Reserve Bank would explain interest rates, the economy and even the inflationary impact of major touring artists. assertive

2026-10-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Business groups are warning years of expensive turmoil will be unleashed by the federal government’s plans for a minimum tax on discretionary trusts as Treasurer Jim Chalmers warns that without reform, the nation’s tax revenue will be eaten away, leaving working Australians exposed to even higher taxes. assertive

2026-10-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The jobless rate would have been higher but for a 0.2 percentage point drop in the participation rate which measures the number of people in work or looking for it. assertive

2026-10-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 If not for a fall in the labour force participation rate – the share of people in work or looking for work – last month’s jobless rate in NSW would have been higher. assertive

2026-10-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Australia’s budget would remain mired in deficit for more than 10 years under One Nation’s plans for lower migration, delivering an economic blow that would drive up national debt by an extra $275 billion. assertive

2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Andrew Hauser used an event in Sydney on Wednesday to argue the RBA was facing a “central bankers’ nightmare” with signs that some businesses believe an inflation rate of between 3 and 3.5 per cent could be the new norm for Australia – well above the bank’s 2-3 per cent target it has struggled to hit over the past four years. assertive