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The OECD believes Australia will be one of the world’s fastest growing economies this year and next, but with high inflation, lifting pressure on Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Australia flagged as a global leader in a war-battered, inflationary world

The OECD believes Australia will be among the fastest growing economies this year. But it will come with high inflation, a worry for the Reserve Bank.

  • Shane Wright

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Labor is reportedly investigating changes to the capital gains tax concession.

‘Do whatever is possible’: Top economists join forces to back capital gains tax changes

Three days of parliamentary hearings will take evidence from some of the nation’s pre-eminent economists – and an international financial organisation – backing changes to capital gains tax.

  • Shane Wright
Australia has slipped down the ranks of the most economically competitive countries.

Australians have become less competitive – and we’re paying the price

Tall poppy syndrome and our isolation from the rest of the world might be dampening our growth. It’s time to find our competitive streak.

  • Millie Muroi
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
Nationals leader David Littleproud said his party was not opposed to emissions reductions cuts, but Australia should not lead the pack.

No, Australia is not ‘streaking ahead’ of other nations on climate

We checked the Nationals’ claim that Australia is reducing emissions much faster than its peers.

  • Nick O'Malley and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Australia’s economic growth is expected to lift to be the highest of major developed nations in 2026.

Australia could soon have the strongest economy in the developed world. But it’s a weak field

The global economy is struggling with the fallout from Donald Trump’s tariff policies, but Australia may be one of the few nations to do relatively well.

  • Shane Wright
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Donald Trump has tried to implement wide-ranging tariffs on trading partners.

Trump era causing a ‘loss of faith’ in free trade

Former Liberal finance minister Mathias Cormann has warned of a high price to pay if economies strayed too far from a commitment to a fair and open trading system.

  • Chris Zappone
The OECD tax project will fall onto the desk of Australia’s Matthias Cormann.

Thanks to Trump administration, Mathias Cormann on top of the world

The former Liberal finance minister has been appointed to another five-year term as Secretary-General of the OECD, backed by US government.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Trump had been a vocal critic of the global tax deal.

Trump’s America exploits its ‘revenge tax’ to back out of historic deal

A key section of the US president’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act has been dropped but the fate of a global deal that took decades to achieve is now up in the air.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
The number of millionaires has grown.

Meet the EMILLIs, our everyday millionaires. Australia has plenty of them

The cost-of-living crisis may have left us feeling economically challenged, but relative to the rest of the world a lot of us are definitely lucky.

  • Elizabeth Knight