FEDERAL ELECTION News & Analysis

Weighing in on the argument for higher education amidst rising costs. 

Incoming Treasurer, Jim Chalmers says he is facing the "trickiest economic conditions inherited by an incoming government since the Second World War".

Scott Morrison’s dramatic election victory has received an economic double-shot in the form of a mooted fall in interest rates and a loosening...

Housing affordability is a pivotal component of Labor's platform, which contains policies intended to further reduce house prices. Morningstar finds...

Weaker than expected inflation for the first quarter of 2019 has boosted expectations the RBA will cut the cash rate when it meets next month.

Labor's plan to axe cash refunds for excess franking credits may have monopolised attention in the countdown to the election but investors stand to...

Josh Frydenberg's first and possibly last budget, and one that the coalition is pinning its thin election hopes on, may include several sweeteners...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says it would be reckless to make federal parliament sit for an extra two weeks in March to fast-track its response to...