Current Australian News and Views
Provided below are a selection of recent Australian newspaper and magazine articles, largely of a financial nature, designed to provide expatriates and others overseas with a snapshot view of current Australian economic, and broader, issues.
- Universities brace for Chinese student hit after COVID - SMH 27/2/21
- Electric vehicles, wind turbine demand drive Lynas’s bumper profit - Age 27/2/21
- ASX suffers worst day in almost six months - ABC 26/2/21
- Why the Reserve Bank has gone to war with the bond market and has to win - New Daily 26/2/21
- Dow Jones plunges 560 points as Wall Street's tech sell-off worsens; GameStop rebounds again - ABC 26/2/21
- Rising bond yields smash US tech, ASX to dive; AUD hits US80c - SMH 26/2/21
- 'Just another type of debt': Australia's struggle to regulate buy now, pay later firms - Guardian 26/2/21
- Facebook versus News: Advertising is the real problem - The Conversation 25/2/21
- Biden’s trade attack on China will reverberate around the world - Age 25/2/21
- ASX set to lift; Afterpay raising $1.25b; Aussie near 80 US cents - Age 25/2/21
- Australian states tighten travel restrictions as New Zealand cluster grows - Age 25/2/21
- Aussie hits fresh three-year highs against the US dollar, close to 80 US cents - SMH 25/2/21
- Why the Australian dollar is rising — and what that's got to do with your mortgage repayments - ABC 25/2/21
- ‘Extremely unfortunate’: ACCC pushes merger crackdown as businesses manipulate laws - New Daily 25/2/21
- Qantas falls to $1.08b half-year loss on COVID-19 pain - SMH 25/2/21
- The $50 boost to JobSeeker will take Australia’s payment from the lowest in the OECD to the second-lowest after Greece - Ther Conversation 25/2/21
- Climate crisis bigger concern than pandemic for Australian businesses, survey finds - Guardian 24/2/21
- ASX to dip; Late buying surge lifts Wall Street; Bitcoin sags - SMH 24/2/21
- Interest rates are rising and tech stocks are likely to head in the other direction - ABC 24/2/21
- Australian wine suffers $81 million export loss amid China trade battle - New Daily 23/2/21
- The US is eyeing off an unlikely economic boom - Age 23/2/21
- ASX to slide; AUD hits new 3-year high as oil, iron ore rise - SMH 23/2/21
- Australian dollar climbs to three-year high, with ASX to open flat as Nasdaq sinks on tech sell-off - ABC 23/2/21
- Doubling down: HSBC is making a risky bet on China - Age 23/2/21
- Victoria to establish royal commission into Melbourne's Crown casino - Guardian 22/2/21
- Treasury warns JobMaker could encourage firms to lay off older workers - New Daily 22/2/21
- ASX set to slip; Macquarie boosts guidance; BlueScope profit up 78% - SMH 22/2/21
- Loosening the mortgage belt: household interest payments at a 35-year low - Age 22/2/21
- Mining engineer shortage sees competition for skilled workers ramp-up amid pandemic - ABC 22/2/21
- Aged care residents and frontline workers receive Australia’s first Covid vaccinations - Guardian 21/2/21
- Australia has the world’s most successful pension system, study finds - New Daily 21/2/21
- The Firb way: finding Australia's sweet spot between blocking China and driving foreign investment - Guardian 21/2/21
- ‘China is motoring ahead’: Australian mining giants ride Beijing’s cash splash - SMH 20/2/21
- Thousands of quarantine workers to be fully vaccinated within weeks - Age 20/2/21
- The reset to lift us out of the COVID recession has to be bold: returning to where we were is nowhere near good enough - The Conversation 20/2/21