The Reserve Bank’s deputy governor Andrew Hauser has warned Australia faces an inflation shock like the 1970s as a result of the Middle East oil crisis that will make the country poorer.
Australia’s unemployment rate remained steady at 4.3 per cent in March - the first full month of the Iran war - making an interest rate rise next month more likely. LNG-rich Queensland saw jobless rate plunge.
A former US marine pilot accused of unlawfully training Chinese military personnel is set to be extradited from Australia after a years-long legal battle.
AARON PATRICK: The closure of most of Australia’s oil refineries over the past two decades left the economy dangerously exposed to a disaster like the one that hit Wednesday night.
Viva Energy Australia’s chief executive says production is no longer a priority after an enormous blaze hits Australia’s most critical oil refinery amid the global fuel crisis.
Energy Minister Chris Bowen has confirmed petrol production has been affected after a blaze tore through one of Australia’s only remaining oil refineries.
Australia should be an example to the Asia-Pacific of how to manage the energy shock. Instead, what was one of the world’s wealthiest countries a century ago looks like an economic has-been.