As cost-crisis weary households keep value front of mind amid higher fuel prices and threats of more interest rate hikes, there’s one supermarket winning shoppers’ dollar.
Cheyanne Enciso
Three-quarters of economists and experts have a grim prediction for households ahead of the RBA’s interest rate meeting.
Cameron Micallef
Supermarket giant Coles has delivered its sales results for the March quarter, making a huge promise to Aussies on looming price hikes.
Blair Jackson
Coles shoppers adjusted their spending patterns after the Middle East war began, spending less on liquor and even buying smaller Easter chocolate bunnies.
Derek Rose
ANZ has posted a massive half-year profit, up nine per cent, as it delivers a dire warning to every Australian household.
Blair Jackson and Cameron Micallef
Pressure is mounting for Jim Chalmers to sharpen the axe in his upcoming Federal Budget as economists from Deloitte warn years of revenue windfalls have ‘papered over’ structural flaws in the nation’s finances.
Matt Mckenzie
Australia’s treasurer has hinted at housing tax reforms that could reshape the property market but warned any changes would raise minimal revenue.
Jim Chalmers has hosed down speculation that his upcoming Budget will score a big revenue boost from tax reform and the Middle East war.
Woolworths has seen a "major shift" in consumer sentiment due to the Middle East war and spiking petrol prices, with many struggling to make ends meet.
Derek Rose and Kaaren Morrissey
Woolworths says key producers have asked to be paid more, with surging inflation and massive extra fuel costs expected to lead to higher prices at the checkout.
Australian small businesses have made a surprising start to the new year, as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and rate hikes threaten sales growth.
A third of older renters say their superannuation will last just five years, exposing a looming disaster Australia has failed to address.
Anthony Albanese has weighed in on the United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave a cartel of major global oil producers.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
Aldi Australia has posted weaker sales growth and a profit drop in 2025, with shoppers seemingly falling out of love with the retailer’s no-name brands and cheaper items amid a renewed supermarket price war.
An Aussie capital is weighing up a ban on short-term rentals offered by companies like Airbnb and Stayz, amid a housing affordability crisis.
Inflation has surged on the back of fuel shocks from the Iran war. Treasurer Jim Chalmers says it could get worse.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has been given more ammunition to lift interest rates next week after inflation soared in March.
Anthony Albanese is promising a federal budget to help younger Australians get ahead. But the Coalition says he is waging an “intergenerational war”.
New data released on Wednesday will be “make or break” for another interest rate hike next week.
Mortgage holders’ costs have already jumped by an insane amount in the first three months of the year – but experts warn the worst is still to come.
Investors will be watching the banks' provisions for bad debts when ANZ, NAB and Westpac report their half-year earnings in the coming days.
Fresh data is expected to show fuel prices rose 35 per cent in March, as the oil shock pushes up measured inflation and increases the chances of a rate rise.
Jacob Shteyman
Premier Roger Cook has told WA’s resources giants that industrial harmony will not ‘come free of charge’ as he urges a resolution to union pay fights in the Pilbara.
One key number on Wednesday could ultimately decide May’s interest rate decision, with a warning the RBA needs to move hard and fast.
