Dinesh Chauhan

The heated global energy market has driven Australia’s resources export earnings to new heights, boosting government coffers by nearly $30 billion but pushing household power bills to painful highs.The Department of Industry, Science and…

LoadingThe RBA has been lifting interest rates to slow inflation, which at a monthly level has reached its fastest pace since the 1990-91 recession.The Melbourne Institute’s monthly measure of inflation, released on Monday, showed a 0.5 per…

Garnaut is an Australian visionary. The one-time economic adviser to Bob Hawke wrote the 1989 report on how Australia could restructure its economy to take advantage of China’s economic renaissance, Australia and the Northeast Asian…

Treasurer Jim Chalmers said Australia will not be immune to a potential global recession.“The weight of opinion around the world is that the global situation has gotten much worse, even in the last few weeks,” he said.LoadingThe Treasurer…

The government’s action plan draws on $224 million to be funded in the federal budget later this month and sets a range of five and 10-year goals including reducing the impact of feral cats, foxes and gamba grass on wildlife, habitat…

The court heard that Higgins believed Lehrmann was territorial of his senior position in Reynolds’ office. Higgins said she invited him out that night in a collegial overture.Bruce Lehrmann leaves court on Tuesday.Credit:Alex…

Outside the word “substantially”, there were few differences between what Lowe was saying in September and what he said on Tuesday.The bank’s job is to hold inflation between 2 and 3 per cent. But Lowe retained a line that had been both in…

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek acknowledged the history of the policy in an interview with ABC Radio National on Tuesday morning when she also warned about the possibility of a global recession.“We did go to the last election…

In a police record of interview played to the jury, Higgins, who is giving evidence in person on Wednesday, said, “I was crying throughout the entire process … he was on top of me, I said ‘no’ at least half a dozen times. He did not stop,…

OTTAWA - Canadian politicians need to think about what would happen if the Iranian regime actually falls, an expert says as Ottawa's response to protests abroad becomes political fodder at home. "The…