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.
- Victoria records 10 new cases as SA lockdown expected to end; outbreak in Sydney unit block - Guardian 27/7/21
- ASX set to test record highs again; BlueScope profit bounces - SMH 27/7/21
- Michael Pascoe: Beware the next election budget - New Daily 27/7/21
- Older, slower, weaker: Olympics piles pressure on Japan’s spluttering economy - Age 27/7/21
- Labor vows to keep stage 3 tax cuts for wealthy Australians - ABC 26/7/21
- Sydney, Melbourne home prices tipped to rise more than 20 per cent - SMH 26/7/21
- ASX set to rise; GPT withdraws guidance on COVID uncertainty - Age 26/7/21
- Victoria records 11 new local cases, all in isolation; SA to announce end of lockdown as Sydney enters week five - Guardian 26/7/21
- A way out of lockdown? Hope for Victoria and NSW as COVID-19 cases drop - New Daily 26/7/21
- How the carbon tax has come back to haunt the Australian government - ABC 26/7/21
- Australia's COVID-19 vaccination targets muddied by Delta variant, as modellers calculate country's way out - ABC 26/7/21
- Corporate Australia to deliver ‘dividends bonanza’ despite fears lockdowns will derail economy - SMH 25/7/21
- From COVID-19 'gold standard' to ‘a national emergency’ — the five weeks that changed everything - ABC 25/7/21
- Morrison’s political calculus: bare his throat now, go to the polls in May - Age 25/7/21
- Code red: NSW plunged into COVID national emergency - SMH 24/7/21
- COVID's escape from Sydney is a nightmare scenario. Could a 'ring of steel' have stopped it? - ABC 24/7/21
- Telstra’s Pacific adventure: a radical pivot or a deal to good to refuse? - Age 24/7/21
- The Brisbane Olympics are a leap into an unknowable future - The Conversation 23/7/21
- Record-high ASX set to sag; Star withdraws $12b Crown merger bid - SMH 23/7/21
- We’re losing the vaccination race because of bungling, not bad luck - The Conversation 23/7/21
- The cost of buying a home has increased by 130 per cent over two generations and Generation X is bearing the debt burden - ABC 23/7/21
- BHP’s Australian nickel to power Tesla electric vehicles - Age 22/7/21
- Tighter border restrictions introduced as SA, NSW and Victoria remain in lockdown - ABC 22/7/21
- ASX to follow Wall Street higher; Oil rises, bitcoin bounces - SMH 22/7/21
- Wind turbines off the coast could help Australia become an energy superpower, research finds - The Conversation 22/7/21
- Fear and uncertainty are as contagious as COVID as Delta rewrites 2021 - ABC 22/7/21
- Digital trade war: Biden opens new front in effort to contain China - Age 21/7/21
- Fresh rankings reveal top-performing super funds - New Daily 21/7/21
- ASX set to rebound; BHP mulls gas and oil exit - Age 21/7/21
- Sydney luxury home prices set to eclipse the world - SMH 21/7/21
- Consumers lose confidence, and those in states not affected by COVID lockdown feel it most - ABC 21/7/21
- Is the COVID vaccine rollout the greatest public policy failure in recent Australian history? - The Conversation 21/7/21
- Coalition pressured to expand Covid disaster payments as 1 million locked down Australians excluded - Guardian 21/7/21
- When COVID is behind us, Australians are going to have to pay more tax - The Conversation 20/7/21
- Top super funds defy gloom with 20 per cent returns - SMH 20/7/21
- ‘Dramatic turn’: Economic rebound to come undone in September quarter - New Daily 20/7/21
- ASX heading for sharp fall as Wall Street tumbles; BHP’s record year - SMH 20/7/21
- BHP records biggest year of iron ore exports as prices boom - Age 20/7/21
- Construction's COVID shutdown hurts building projects big and small, as well as the economy - ABC 20/7/21
- How fast is Australia’s economy running? Fiscal and monetary stimulus certainly helps - Guardian 20/7/21
- Voters mark down Morrison, Joyce’s popularity extraordinarily low - SMH 20/7/21