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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Labor president Wayne Swan on the party's coming national conference

Next week the Labor Party will hold its national conference in Brisbane. It’s the first face-to-face conference in five years. These conferences don’t have anything like the bite they once did, but there’s still a chance for the party’s rank and file to have a shout about issues. More than…

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Aged-care funding reforms must ensure users pay their fair share

Aged-care services will cost taxpayers more than A$35 billion this year. Treasurer Jim Chalmers argues it’s one of the government’s biggest ongoing funding challenges. The last intergenerational report, which looked out over the next 40 years, came to the same conclusion.

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Afternoon Update: RBA gives households reprieve; former childcare worker faces offences; and post-Ashes drinks moved to nightclub

Jim Chalmers says RBA decision is a ‘welcome reprieve for Australians who are already doing it tough’

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Australia is about to set its first full employment target – and it will define people's lives for decades

Stand by for one of the most important decisions Treasurer Jim Chalmers and the Albanese government will make.

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Chris Barrett has a formidable job ahead as the new Productivity Commission chief

This week’s appointment of Wayne Swan’s former chief of staff Chris Barrett to head the Productivity Commission puts the annual Trade and Assistance Review it released this month under a more searching spotlight than usual.

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Underlying inflation has slipped below 6%, but is the slide enough to stop the RBA pushing up rates further?

Australia’s inflation rate has fallen for the second consecutive quarter.

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Can the Productivity Commission’s fresh chair take on Labor’s new protectionism?

Chris Barrett — Jim Chalmers’ former boss — is the new head of the Productivity Commission. Will he keep its independence intact?

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Ongoing detention of Cheng Lei without verdict ‘damages China’s standing’ worldwide, partner says

Dfat calls for China to exercise ‘basic standards of justice’ in case of Australian journalist detained since 2020 over national security-related accusations

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Chris Barrett becomes new head of the Productivity Commission, as Jim Chalmers flags fresh focus

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has appointed Chris Barrett, an economist with extensive public service and governmental experience, as the new chair of the Productivity Commission.

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Productivity Commission appoints Chris Barrett as new chief, treasurer Jim Chalmers confirms

Chalmers announces Barrett, deputy secretary of Victoria’s treasury and finance department, will begin his five-year appointment from September

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Cheap shots aside, Chalmers has work to do to improve his new 'wellbeing' framework

The Albanese government’s new “Measuring What Matters” framework for a wellbeing economy has been criticised for relying on out-of-date data in several crucial measures. But that’s an easy and somewhat cheap criticism to make.

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Victorian Liberals call for parliamentary inquiry into cancellation of Commonwealth Games – as it happened

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Aussie wellbeing tracker shows room for improvement

The life expectancy, safety and representation of Australians in parliament has improved, but many other wellbeing indicators are deteriorating.

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Reserve Bank might be using sledgehammer to crack a nut

Prominent economists say a broad range of economic policies are needed to tackle inflation with RBA rate hikes ineffective against key sources of inflation.

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Australians' national wellbeing shows a glass half full: Measuring What Matters report

Australia presents a mixed picture of national wellbeing, according to the government’s Measuring What Matters report released by Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

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PwC partner wins injunction over retirement move

A partner of PwC is taking the embattled consultancy giant to court over his forced retirement after an investigation into misuse of confidential information.

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Australia's first wellbeing framework is about to measure what matters – but it's harder than counting GDP

In an implicit admission that the Commonwealth budget may not measure what really matters, Treasurer Jim Chalmers is about to release what he is calling “Measuring What Matters” – Australia’s first national wellbeing framework.

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The Victorian government could have to pay millions of dollars in compensation for bailing out of the 2026 Commonwealth Games, and Treasurer Jim Chalmers and his Chinese counterpart had ‘friendly’ talks in India about lifting trade sanctions and about two detained Australians, Cheng Lei and Yang Hengjun.

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Consultancy firms’ tactics under scrutiny – as it happened

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Lowe's interest rate missteps were costly ones for many Australians

How difficult can it be?

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Renters never gloomier as living costs soar

Confidence among renters has plunged to a record low.

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China GDP growth falls short of expectations as sinking property prices hit economy

Data shows the economy grew just 0.8% in the June quarter, down from 2.2% in the first three months of 2023

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Easing global inflation story takes pressure off rates

Moderating inflation around the world could help the Reserve Bank build the case for an extended pause on interest rates.

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‘A lethargic result’: Labor says it is ridiculous for Peter Dutton to take heart from Fadden byelection win

Deputy prime minister Richard Marles says byelection swing to LNP was ‘half the average swing you would expect against a sitting government’

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'I have a mountain of respect' for Lowe: Treasurer

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is unable to say if inflation can come back down without a rise in unemployment but declined to comment on the RBA's July rate decision.

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