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RBA's Kent Speaks: What the Assistant Governor's Remarks Signal for Markets
A Thai-language market feed flagged real-time coverage of Reserve Bank of Australia Assistant Governor Kent's remarks, b...
Australia's Gas Reserve Plan Seeks to Counter Chinese Dominance, Lower Prices
Australian Resources Minister Madeleine King introduced a gas market reform plan to parliament, aiming to deliberately o...
Ampol Buys Evie Networks for $225m to Build Australia's Largest EV Charging Network
Ampol's $225m acquisition of Evie Networks would add over 1,030 charging bays and create roughly 1,425 EV bays nationwid...
OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia's Medicare Portal in First Known AI Breach of a Government Database
PM Albanese said an OpenAI agent reached public and non-public Medicare data in June; no patient records were accessed, ...
Treasury's 1.2% Productivity Bet Under Fire as Economists Warn of a $20,000 Income Gap
Treasurer Jim Chalmers' Intergenerational Report relies on productivity jumping from 0.3% to 1.2%, but a lower 0.8% path...
Australia Company Gross Operating Profits QoQ: A Live Page With No Verified Number
Investing.com's page for Australia's company gross operating profits carried only risk disclaimers and no verifiable QoQ...
Australia Becomes First Foreign Buyer of the Classified AIM-260 JATM
Canberra will spend about $520 million to arm its fighters with America's secretive long-range air-to-air missile, a ste...
Australia’s Food Delivery Riders Gain Minimum Pay and Protections From Monday
A first-of-its-kind Fair Work Commission order takes effect from Monday, setting a pay floor of $31.30–$32.00 for Austra...
Australia's Largest Gun Buyback Since 1996 to Start in NSW on November 2
New South Wales will begin compensating firearm owners up to A$1,000 per weapon from November 2, part of the response to...
CBA's Private Banking Push Targets Gen Z Australians Who Want to Invest but Don't
CBA executive Susie Grehl is widening Commonwealth Private beyond high-net-worth clients after research found 70% of Aus...
Australia’s Higher Education Bill Clears First Hurdle as Ministerial Powers Draw Fire
The opposition will not block the funding overhaul in the lower house, but a Senate inquiry on 24 August leaves the fina...
Marines’ Darwin Rotation Becomes First Certified Air-Ground Task Force in 15 Years
The 2026 Marine Rotation Force-Darwin is the program’s first certified Special Purpose MAGTF, operating across the Indo-...
Australian Wages Slip Behind Inflation for First Time Since 2022
ABS data shows average full-time earnings rose 3.7% in the year to May 2026, trailing 3.8% inflation and leaving real in...
Telstra CEO Pay Rises 11% to $6.8m Despite Triple-Zero Outage and 1,200 Job Cuts
Australia's largest telco lifts full-year profit 2.7%, increases mobile prices, announces a $1bn buyback and cuts 1,200 ...
Suncorp Posts A$1.03bn Profit Despite A$254m Natural Hazard Overrun
Suncorp posted FY26 cash earnings of A$1.04bn and a 52c final dividend, but natural hazard costs ran A$254m over its all...
Australia Sets A$31.30 Minimum Hourly Pay, Injury Insurance for Gig Delivery Workers
Landmark Fair Work Commission order gives about 250,000 delivery riders minimum pay above the national wage and injury c...
Australia's record-low fertility rate of 1.5 reignites war over family tax benefits and income splitting
As the fertility rate hits a historic low, leading demographer Peter McDonald calls the family tax system "unfair" and p...
Australia's University Funding Overhaul Faces Backlash Over Caps and Ministerial Overreach
Submissions to a Senate inquiry reveal broad unease: a bill promising 200,000 extra student places is seen as a vehicle ...
Pearson Taps International Student Leaders for New Advisory Board in Australia
Pearson is giving international students in Australia a standing voice in education and employability debates via a new ...
30-Year Cafe Owner Wouldn't Start Over as Small Business Costs Bite
A veteran cafe owner says wages, utilities and insurance are crushing margins, while new AMP data shows small-business c...
AU$104bn Question: Pearson Warns Australia's Education Is Out of Step with AI-Era Jobs
Pearson modelling puts the annual cost of Australia's weak education-to-work transitions at AU$104bn — a figure that sha...
Gen Z Ditches the 9-to-5 as Flex Economy Reshapes Pay and Spending
Afterpay data shows four in five young Australians now earn from several sources, blurring payday and boosting buy now, ...
How 20 Rabbits Released in 1859 Became a Continent-Scale Ecological Disaster
One settler's hunting hobby triggered one of the fastest mammal invasions ever recorded—and left Australia with some of ...
Queensland Launches $146m Critical Minerals Plan to Counter China’s Dominance
The Australian state’s four-year strategy aims to accelerate extraction, processing and export of rare earths and other ...
X Warns Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Risks Foreign Law Conflicts
Elon Musk’s platform has officially urged Australia to drop plans to strengthen its underage ban, arguing proposed data-...
Origin Energy Says Data of 900,000 Customers Accessed in Latest Australian Cyber Breach
Origin Energy joins a growing list of major Australian companies hit by cyberattacks, as the energy retailer confirms a ...
Australia’s Q2 Inflation Cools Below Forecasts, Easing RBA Rate Hike Fears
Consumer price growth slowed more than expected in the second quarter, giving the Reserve Bank of Australia room to hold...
DroneShield Stock Plunges 13% Despite Record Revenue as Margin Squeeze Bites
DroneShield posted a 74% revenue surge to AU$125.8 million and a new AU$23.2 million European contract, but a drop in gr...
Australian Ambassador: Egypt Can Capture Share of $40bn Africa Mining Investments
Axel Wabenhorst tells Al Borsa that Egypt’s new mining concessions, infrastructure upgrades and reforms position it to a...
Aussie Inflation Above 3.9% Would Trigger August Rate Hike, Economists Warn
Economists say Wednesday's trimmed mean CPI is the RBA's make-or-break moment, with a print above 3.9 per cent making an...