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The new fund will hold a range of convenience retail properties, from supermarkets, to pubs and service stations.

The economy might look better, but it’s still coughing

If the Reserve Bank was a doctor, it would probably say the Australian economy is still a bit sick with sluggish movement and a mild fever.

  • Millie Muroi

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Sorry folks, this rosy report is as good as it gets this year

Spending, especially among the states, is also growing on everyday services including health, education and policing.

  • Shane Wright
Consumer spending helped bolster the US’s GDP numbers this quarter.

America’s increasingly ‘K-shaped’ economy is difficult to reconcile

Donald Trump was excited by a sizzling estimate of US economic growth in the September quarter. He might be disappointed by the Federal Reserve Board’s response to it.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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The economy is picking up pace. What about the speed limit?

Some have warned the Australian economy is pushing up against its speed limit. But we might just be able to shift towards the fast lane if that speed limit changes.

  • Millie Muroi
Illegal cigarettes on the black market are on the rise.

‘Is this Soviet Russia?’ Australia is getting smoked by its tobacco fail

The underground trade in illegal tobacco has become a growing cancer for the Australian economy. It’s now so large that it is distorting our national accounts because its sales can’t be measured.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Paula Taylor, this year’s recipient of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Primary Schools.

It took a teacher to put CSIRO tragedy in a nutshell: Why would her students pursue science?

I wish I had an easy answer for her – now that the CSIRO will shed 350 research staff.

  • Ryan Winn
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So far as Donald Trump has a worldview, it seems to echo a version of the world in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

A report card on the Trump presidency

A year after being elected, Donald Trump is running out of time to deliver on his biggest promise to voters.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Australia has invited the US to maintain its submarines, such as this Virginia class boat, in WA.

Australia invites US to use WA to maintain its nuclear submarines

The move to let the US use the Henderson facility, which the federal government has committed $12 billion to build, could help buttress the AUKUS pact.

  • Nick Bonyhady
The problem is not that young people pay too much income tax, but that wealthy Australians pay very little – or none at all.

If we’re focused on fairness, it’s not the rich we should be worrying about

The problem is not necessarily that young people pay too much tax, but that there are some Australians who pay little to none.

  • Millie Muroi
Households are finally regaining their mojo.

If you’ve been treating yourself more, you’re not alone. Here’s why

After years of squirrelling money away, Australians are changing their spending habits.

  • Millie Muroi