SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian household spending edged higher in September as gains in food, health, and petrol were offset by drops in air travel and accommodation, suggesting only a patchy recovery ...

Having won re-election in a landslide in May, Australia’s Labor government has a big mandate to do something about this. Jim Chalmers, the treasurer, says driving up productivity is his priority. The ...

With inflation back above the Reserve Bank of Australia’s target band, the prospect of a cut in official interest rates in ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's economy barely grew in the first quarter as consumers stayed stubbornly frugal and government spending, the engine of activity last year, sputtered to a standstill, ...

FM talks GYEONGJU, South Korea, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) -- The top diplomats of South Korea and Australia agreed Thursday to step up ...

Tasmania has dropped to sixth place in CommSec’s latest economic performance report due to “anaemic” private sector demand ...

Many Australian businesses still view Indonesia as "too hard", despite recent reforms offering competitive incentives such as ...

The foreign ministers of Japan and Australia agreed Thursday to bolster cooperation on economic security as next year marks ...

Increasingly economic policy conditions are being made with national security considerations. The rise of China as a globally economically integrated superpower has created conditions distinct from ...

The Tomago Aluminium smelter consumes as much electricity as a city of a million people. Its 950-megawatt load runs around ...

Skilled immigrants should be prioritised to address the nation’s housing shortage, according to Westpac chief executive Anthony Miller.

Australia’s 26 million citizens enjoy high living standards and relatively low poverty. Argentina’s 46 million have seen living standards erode, around two-fifths live in poverty while inflation in ...