The Latest Breaking News from Jim Chalmers

A new study shows the meningococcal virus increased its spread in 2020 despite restrictive COVID-19 lockdowns.

The escalating cost of living is your ally when you’re an opposition seeking election, but when you’re in office, it’s a rampaging beast to manage, economically and politically.

With workers’ pay rates stagnant for a decade and inflation eating into spending power, here’s what unions are proposing

The Greens want the Federal Government to introduce a freeze on rent prices nationwide for two years to deal with our crippling rental affordability crisis. Apparently all the landlords in parliament are completely (deliberately?) oblivious.Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather called on the government to introduce the rent freeze on Thursday morning…

The Keating iron fist in the Chalmers’ velvet glove is that if the super funds don’t invest in housing voluntarily, the Labor government will make them.

The ACTU and the Tech Council of Australia have agreed on labour force priorities ahead of the jobs and skills summit.

Labor wants super used to bolster housing supply and support the clean energy transition, but the opposition wants retirement savings to come first.

Decision makers are torn between wanting to lift wages for fairness and consumption, and wanting to keep wages down to control inflation.

The federal government has released an issues paper in preparation for the jobs and skills summit, outlining five key economic challenges to be addressed.

Big business wants a “catch up boost” to permanent migration, with at least two thirds of the places going to skilled workers,

Government urges ‘restraint and de-escalation’ after Xiao Qian’s speech as Peter Dutton says ‘nobody should be surprised’ if conflict erupts between China and Taiwan