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 curated, snapshot view of current Australian economic, and broader, issues. Also see our Blog on current issues impacting Australian expats.
- ASX ends the week in the green as banks and tech shares climb - Age 19/12/25
- ASX set to rise as Wall Street jumps; WiseTech to take no further action against White - SMH 19/12/25
- Peak Jewish body calls Labor’s plan to combat antisemitism an essential ‘first step’ but some warn it risks division - Guardian 19/12/25
- Grattan on Friday: Anthony Albanese is forced into policy catch up after Bondi atrocity - The Conversation 18/12/25
- The election is over, but inflation is still dominating the economic story - ABC 18/12/25
- ASX set to fall after AI stocks drag down Wall Street again - SMH 18/12/25
- More than $100m compensation to be paid to First Guardian investors - ABC 18/12/25
- Trump’s two Americas are getting further apart - Age 18/12/25
- The budget update shows a slight improvement in the federal deficit, but it’s mostly due to good luck - The Conversation 17/12/25
- Supermarket price gouging will be banned from July. Will we actually end up better off? - New Daily 17/12/25
- ASX to open little changed after data dump confounds Wall Street - Age 17/12/25
- China’s property cancer is spreading through its economy - SMH 17/12/25
- Mid-year budget update to show $8.4b improvement to bottom line - ABC 17/12/25
- Stereotypes about baby boomers abound. Here’s the reality of their future - New Daily 16/12/25
- Mid-year budget update will project deficit of nearly $37 billion for current financial year - The Conversation 16/12/25
- ASX set to dip as Wall Street drifts lower ahead of data dump - SMH 16/12/25
- National cabinet agrees unanimously to strengthen Australia's strict gun laws in wake of Bondi terror attack - ABC 16/12/25
- What Australia can learn from the great Kiwi interest rate hike experiment - ABC 16/12/25
- Private health insurers return $4.8b in Covid windfall - New Daily 15/12/25
- Bondi shooting - SMH 15/12/25
- ASX set to fall as Wall Street slumps on AI jitters - Age 15/12/25
- Faster isn’t always better. Our super system needs ‘speed bumps’ - Age 15/12/25
- Superannuation funds accused of delaying disability insurance claims - ABC 15/12/25
- ‘Crossed the line’: The week Trump turned his back on Europe - Age 14/12/25
- ASX set to rise, Oracle weighs down Wall Street - Age 12/12/25
- Singaporean giant buys major Australian power company for $6.5 billion - SMH 12/12/25
- Interest rates are blunt. But so is the RBA – when it needs to be - SMH 12/12/25
- Treasurer Jim Chalmers gives green light to Hanwha's double stake in shipbuilder Austal - ABC 12/12/25
- With Nvidia’s second-best AI chips headed for China, the US shifts priorities from security to trade - The Conversation 12/12/25