As Australia races to retrofit laws for generative artificial intelligence, the nation's eSafety commissioner says investigators face real-life harms every day.
Australia's major airlines have thrown Bonza workers a lifeline after their employer collapsed into voluntary administration.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he will look for other ways to help people doing it tough rather than raising income support payments.
The housing market continues to defy gravity and trend higher even as interest rates remain elevated and affordability is stretched.
Origin Energy's revenue from liquefied natural gas on higher volumes and prices surged in the March quarter, as talks continue over keeping Eraring burning.
Budget airline Bonza has entered voluntary administration after flights were suspended and the Australian government created a hotline for customers.
The high cost of essentials such as health, education and housing are squeezing household budgets and leading to weak discretionary spending.
Coles has recorded a 5.1 per cent rise in supermarket sales over the past three months, a boost it attributed in part to a popular collectibles campaign.
Higher interest rates, cost of living pressures and an increasing tax burden have kept a lid on Australian consumer spending and left retail sales weak.
Rentals are in short supply and prices are rising fast but there's more to the story than international students, the Student Accommodation Council says.
BHP has had a $60 billion bet on "future-facing commodities" rejected by rival Anglo American, which said the iron ore giant's takeover bid was opportunistic.
Hotter-than-expected inflation data has likely pushed back the start date for interest rate cuts, a move that will keep pressure on mortgage holder budgets.
Woodside Energy shareholders have re-elected chairman Richard Goyder but rejected the company's climate plan in a raucous four-hour meeting.
Australia's annual inflation rate has sunk to a two-year low but is slightly above expectations, which might lengthen the wait time for rate cuts.
Tax reform, building more public housing, and lifting social support payments have all been floated as pieces of the housing affordability puzzle.
Renewable energy generation is lifting its overall share of a growing national electricity market and pushing wholesale prices down, according to official data.
Ahead of the May federal budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has flagged more cost of living relief that will need to take pressure off inflation, not add to it.
The cost of living pressures plaguing households have been subsiding and fresh data released this week will hopefully reveal further softening.
South Australia is the top-performing state economy for the second quarter running although Western Australia could overtake it in coming months.
The threat of escalating conflict in the Middle East has cast further uncertainty over Australia's pre-budget economic outlook, the treasurer has warned.
Thousands of workers face uncertainty as BHP considers the fate of nickel operations amid a global glut of the metal, but coal for power plants is firing up.
Some of the most extreme weather Australia has ever seen is proving to be the "X-factor" for power bills as wholesale energy prices rise.
The official jobs data was more subdued in March as widely expected following a surprisingly strong February result.
Ambassador Caroline Kennedy has taken aim at China's "unchecked exploitation" of Indonesia and other nations that risks destroying the supply of clean minerals.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will use talks in Washington to take the temperature of the global economy as he puts the finishing touches on his third federal budget.
A rural report into the impact of climate change in every state calls for research to determine how land management can help achieve emission reduction targets.
Solar power is breaking records, and reigniting calls for a home battery saver program of up to $6500 to allow households to get more value from their rooftops.
The head of Woolworths was threatened with jail time while the Coles CEO apologised to suppliers during a parliamentary inquiry into supermarket prices.
Homes purposefully built for renting long term could help boost rental supply in the future but the emerging model is no silver bullet nor a short term fix.
Australians will compete for public funds, electricity supply and land access under plans for the nation to cut its emissions by up to 75 per cent by 2035.
Two separate Australian cryptocurrency companies have collapsed while federal court proceedings are being pursued against the directors of the businesses.
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