The property boom has made older Australians rich and turned housing into the standout generational issue in the four decades ...

The odds of a federal debt crisis just got worse. On Thursday, Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill, a sweeping piece of legislation that threatens to leave the government with one big, ...

When a country’s interest payments on debt eclipse its military expenditure, the collapse of empire cannot be far away.

The federal government will borrow more money than the states this year for the first time since the pandemic, heaping more pressure on Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Following shocking abuse allegations, the Federal Government will push for new laws to tighten oversight and funding for ...

Voters back greater federal funding as the best way out of Tasmania’s debt spiral, according to new polling conducted by the ...

With developing nations crushed by unaffordable borrowing and Washington on the sidelines, some leaders are brokering debt ...

Our universities require a major overhaul. Reform is possible, but only if a government is prepared to take up the challenge.

In normal times, fiscal and monetary policy moved in sync. Today, big government is fueling the very inflation central banks ...

The US president’s liberation day tariffs are due to return from July 9, with warnings they could do as much inflation damage ...

History supports Moody’s assessment that “successive US administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to ...

Jim Chalmers admitted earlier in June that his budget was not sustainable. With the exception of resource-rich Western Australia, the same can be said of most state and territory budgets, The ...