One state’s free-travel era is almost over, with a new relief scheme coming into effect on Monday. Here’s what you need to know.
Kate Stephenson
The Fair Work Commission has sounded the alarm over an unprecedented wave of AI-assisted dismissal claims – flagging major changes to handle the exploding workload.
Emma Kirk
Australian retailers are facing a “pincer movement” of rising costs and weakening demand, which is tipped to batter local businesses.
Cameron Micallef
One lucky NSW woman has become a multi-millionaire, taking home a $60m million Powerball jackpot thanks to an insane detail.
Tia Clarkson-Pascoe
A group of Australians have surprisingly emerged as the most optimistic about the next 12 months despite being stung by cost-of-living pressures.
Aussies who have lost thousands of dollars to scams could soon be given a much-needed reprieve under a new plan from the federal government.
Ike Morris
A union representing three million Australians has called for a big pay increase so that workers don’t have to go without food.
A West Australian man has had a bittersweet lotto win, and one small detail in the massive windfall had a very special meaning.
A woman’s $50 lotto ticket has transformed her into a millionaire owner of three luxury properties after she scored the grand $12m prize package.
Money markets have virtually ruled out the Reserve Bank hiking rates again in June after inflation dipped in April, but it won’t be a long-term reprieve.
A big-four bank has been slapped with a whopping $26 million fine for a six-year failure to help customers facing financial hardship.
Daniel Newell
One of the big four banks has built a conversational ‘companion’ that will sit inside its main banking app, ready to offer solutions to financial questions.
Kaaren Morrissey
Australian telcos are warning of higher mobile plan costs and a slower network after the regulator dismissed pleas for a substantially lower licence fee.
The after-tax savings can be considerable and a simplified example demonstrates the benefits.
Nick Bruining
The recent Federal Budget has reaffirmed a strategy that has allowed many electric vehicle buyers to effectively pay for their new car with pre-tax income.
Several big issues have emerged over plans to take a slice of discretionary trusts, including that making testamentary trusts ‘tax-compliant’ could erode critical asset protection benefits.
Cash gifts, free rent and guarantor support have become the new first-home playbook as families step in where housing affordability falls short.
Ryan Johnson
DEBTMAN: The Albanese Government has just changed the game, and almost every investment property book published in Australia in the past three or four decades should be thrown on the pyre.
Bruce Brammall
Q+A: The changes to capital gains tax have ruffled plenty of feathers. But will they apply to those on Centrelink support payments such as the age pension?
Retirees will be able to convert their superannuation into “lifetime income” with a market-first program.
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The Great Wealth Transfer - buoyed by skyrocketing property prices - has become increasingly litigious, with the silver tsunami prompting a 40 per cent spike in inheritance disputes over the past five years.
Kim Macdonald
Small businesses that create jobs are being slugged with a ‘productivity tax’ and punished compared to companies which barely grow, an eminent economist says.
Blair Jackson
The days of flipping houses could be dead, experts say, in the wake of major changes to investment property taxes.
Australian investors are dumping ethical funds as a perfect storm of factors push them towards higher-return ‘unethical’ trades.
