Australia

Australian trade officials have warned further US tariffs on sectors including pharmaceutical and digital services could be on the horizon in the wake of America’s recent ‘slave labour’ levy. 

AARON PATRICK: The One Nation leader’s anti-immigration crusade has turned her into, by one measure, Australia’s most-popular political leader.

Before One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce said foreigners should be forced to sell their homes in Australia, the party’s leader went even further.

A leading property economist is warning Labor’s negative gearing and capital gains tax changes will cause rents to soar without seeing more first homebuyers enter the housing market as investors lost interest.

A One Nation senator has been kicked off live radio and told to sort out his policy position after failing to answer simple questions around the minor party’s views on foreign ownership of residential property.

Australia’s economic growth has stalled following a series of interest rate rises while productivity has gone backwards, which could stop the Reserve Bank hiking rates any further.

Former PM Tony Abbott says the Liberals are ‘under new management’ with him in charge, while his Howard-era cabinet colleague Alexander Downer wants the party to be ‘media tarts’ to win the next election.

Flight Centre founder Graham Turner says Labor’s capital gains tax changes will hurt aspiration and young Australians will not being able to climb the ladder to business success.

The Prime Minister’s promise to ‘fully cooperate’ with the investigation into the Bondi terror attack has been questioned.

The head of KPMG has reportedly resigned after the corporate regulator publicly confirmed in real-time it's probing registered company auditors at the firm.

Liberal leader Angus Taylor is expected to be the hot topic at the party's annual federal council meeting of delegates from across the country.

The Greens are likely to support the EU trade deal, making Coalition demands that the Government renegotiate the agreement redundant. 

The median age of Australian property investors has risen during the past 25 years, with the Reserve Bank revealing new data as Treasurer Jim Chalmers introduced a capital gains tax and negative gearing bill.