Australia’s meat industry has revealed it will lobby China after being slapped with enormous new year tariffs.
Ria Pandey
Australian shares posted a modest rise through 2025, despite an April bloodbath when US President Donald Trump took a baseball bat to the world economy.
Matt Mckenzie & Simone Grogan
Selling taxpayer-owned betting agency WA TAB has been ruled out amid a major review of funding for the State’s racing industry announced quietly on Tuesday.
Matt Mckenzie
Nearly 100,000 people were expected to Karrinyup today as shopping centres braced for the Boxing Day frenzy.
Caleb Runciman
Oasis rocked Australia in 2025 with a triumphant, sold-out tour that played to more than 320,000 fans. SEAN SMITH looks back at the year in business through the band’s song list.
Sean Smith
It has been a grind for the Aussie box office in 2025, with cinema owners reporting some painful flops. But a big Christmas season could help it crack the $1bn barrier.
Duncan Evans
The CEOs of Westpac and Woolworths have revealed their predictions for 2026. The Nightly has asked the captains of banking, supermarkets and mining for their visions to confront Australia’s challenges.
Tom Richardson
Market analysts have declared gold’s 70 per cent annual surge “unprecedented” as the precious metal defies all historical patterns.
Cameron Micallef
The Reserve Bank of Australia believes the full impact of three interest rate cuts in 2025 is ‘yet to be seen’ as it prepares for the possibility of hikes next year, minutes from its December meeting show.
Cheyanne Enciso & Swati Pandey
Australia’s central bank board discussed the circumstances under which it would have to pivot to interest rate hikes in 2026 as inflation risks shift to the upside.
Swati Pandey
The Reserve Bank has given a grim pre-Christmas warning on interest rates – as the board remains split over conflicting inflation signals.
Christmas gift giving can often mean stressful book balancing and decision making...have you considered regifting?
Kirsty Lichtenstein
Australian household spending is tipped to soar over the festive period. But experts are sounding the alarm on what this could mean for interest rates ahead of the Reserve Bank meeting in February.
Australians are being urged to do one thing over the summer break that could have a huge pay off.
The Australian dollar has surged to a 14-month high as the money markets make a huge call on interest rates.
Tokyo is investigating serious fraud allegations involving a Japanese defence contractor linked to the country’s advanced Mogami warships scheduled to soon be built in WA.
Andrew Greene
A major tax shake-up proposed by the Productivity Commission would slash bills for the majority of Australian businesses but has attracted criticism from the big end of town.
Jim Chalmers has been accused of rushing his contentious superannuation reforms, with an industry body warning the short consultation period ‘makes it difficult to identify unintended consequences’.
Cheyanne Enciso
Australians splashed more than $23 billion during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales events – but it was not on the items you might expect.
A surprising surge has driven the biggest decline in net migration in Australia since the Covid pandemic.
Cash-strapped mortgage holders could soon be paying more for their loans as a number of banks lift their fixed rate offering.
The State’s peak business lobby group has finally filled a major hole with the appointment of a new chief economist.
Australian household wealth has soared over the last three months due to rising property, stocks and superannuation assets.
New Zealand enjoyed a much-needed 1.1 per cent boost to GDP in the September quarter, fuelled by tourism, dairy and manufacturing.
Ben McKay
