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 set to retreat as Wall Street slides; Oil prices climb after US strike on Iranian sites - SMH 1/9/26
- Property downturn spreads to 93pc of suburbs in Australia's capital cities - ABC 1/9/26
- $40,000 wiped off the value of the average house over winter - Age 1/9/26
- Australia has spent 25 years ‘stopping the boats’, but that’s not the same as controlling migration - The Conversation 1/9/26
- ASX set to slide as Wall Street retreats; Fed chief talks up inflation fight - Age 31/8/26
- Why declining productivity and rising inequality won't be met with bold reform - ABC 31/8/26
- Why some US Republicans want to punish Australia over new charges for tech giants -The Conversation 31/8/26
- Oil giant’s retreat on clean energy shows limits of investor pressure - SMH 31/8/26
- Banks claw back credit card rewards - New Daily 30/8/26
- Time will tell what One Nation's WA victory will mean - ABC 30/8/26
- One Nation thumps Labor to gain WA state seat of Secret Harbour at byelection - The Conversation 30/8/26
- Sydney developer’s $3.3bn collapse sparks ‘contagion’ fears across housing sector - SMH 30/8/26
- ‘Inept, incompetent, craven’: Scott Bessent struggles to clean up the president’s mess - Guardian 29/8/26
- Nepal-Tibet floods live updates: Almost 2,000 missing as rescuers work through flood devastation - ABC 29/8/26
- The visa class at the heart of Labor’s migration woes - SMH 28/8/26
- Private credit firm CVS Lane joins list of firms limiting investor pullouts - ABC 28/8/26
- No – we don’t need to trade standards for cheaper housing. Here’s how - ABC 28/8/26
- Australia’s share market ends volatile week higher - Age 28/8/26
- Nepal-Tibet floods live updates: Death toll reaches 392, at least 39 Australians missing - ABC 28/8/26
- ASX set to edge up, Wall Street gets AI boost; Virgin, Harvey Norman results ahead - SMH 28/8/26
- NT Treasurer Bill Yan says mining, gas projects strengthening Territory's finances - ABC 28/8/26
- Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Charlton’s warning on data centres’ impact on power bills - The Conversation 27/8/28
- Qantas to retire A380s early, reveals profit fall - New Daily 27/8/26
- Nepal–Tibet floods: Australians among hundreds missing as death toll reaches 160 - ABC 27/8/26
- ASX set to dip as Wall Street drifts; Nvidia rallies on earnings; Qantas results ahead - SMH 27/8/26
- ASIC warns of 'first significant cracks' in Australian private credit - ABC 27/8/26
- What will we get out of the AI boom? The data suggests lots of noisy, energy-hungry datacentres and not much else - Guardian 27/8/26
- Inflation eases less than expected, making another interest rate hike more likely - The Conversation 26/8/26
- State budgets are a ticking time bomb and we owe it to our children to fix them - New Daily 26/8/26
- ASX set to rise ahead of inflation numbers; Flight Centre takes Middle East hit - SMH 26/8/26
- US government debt surges to $US40 trillion — here's how it could lead to higher rates in Australia - ABC 26/8/26
- The Stats Guy: Why the looming boomer inheritance wave poses its own challenges - New Daily 26/8/26
- ‘Situational selling’: The home owners who are selling in a downturn - Domain 26/8/26
- Canada announces 'dollar-for-dollar' retaliatory tariffs on US as high as 50% - BBC 26/8/26
- View from The Hill: Pragmatism holds Albanese to bad GST carve up, but Productivity Commission remains burr under saddle - The Conversation 25/8/26
- ASX set to edge up, Wall Street weighed down by tech stocks; Trump bought SpaceX shares - SMH 25/8/26
- Climate, wars and fuel shortages foster famine fears - ABC 25/8/26