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Rooftop solar power generation hit a bright spot in Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia this spring, and a third of Australia’s public companies paid not one cent in tax in 2020-21.

The Reserve Bank is still on its quest to kill inflation, but what exactly still needs to be put to the sword?

Philip Lowe and the RBA are gaslighting Australian workers with their insistence wages are growing, when real incomes are being smashed.

Mortgage holders are bracing for higher repayments in the wake of another 25 basis point rate hike by the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Editorial: Interest rates the hammer and the nail

In today’s newsletter: more than a third of households could be losing out on crucial cost-of-living relief; Unilever staff to trial shorter week; and why the BMI index might be bad for you

The PM says there’ll be no cash handouts because they’re ‘cheap politics and hugely expensive economics’, and Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong will sign a deal with Thailand today to counter human trafficking. (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this column mentions a deceased person.)

The Economics 101 picture the Reserve Bank paints of inflation fighting doesn’t tell anywhere near the full story.

Increases in electricity and gas prices are less to blame for the cost-of-living squeeze than many other components. Here’s why