You should be aware of your tax and super obligations before you leave Australia. If you have already left, you can use ATO online services to do most tasks. When you leave Australia, you need to work out if you remain an Australian resident overseas....
More than half a million Australians in at least 400 remote or regional communities lack access to quality drinking water. An estimated 408 rural locations with a combined population of 627,736 people failed to measure up to health-based guidelines in 2018-2019, according to researchers at the...
The central bank governor has reassured Australian households and businesses inflation will come down, but further rises in interest rates will be needed in the short term. Financial markets are already pointing to an average inflation rate over the next ten years of “two point something”,...
Taxpayers will find the upcoming government budget update confronting, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says. Dr Chalmers said his government had inherited the “trickiest set of economic conditions” in memory. He is set to provide the latest debt forecast on July 28 during the first parliamentary sitting week of...
The ANZ is tipping the cash rate will hit 3.35 per cent this year, with the Reserve Bank conceding first-home buyers are most vulnerable to defaulting, with many facing 40 per cent higher repayments by the end of 2023. In an address to the Economic Society...
BHP says it will review the planned lifespan of its seven central Queensland mines after the Palaszczuk government unexpectedly hiked coal royalties. At current spot prices, the taxes, which were levied last month, effectively increase the royalty rate seven percentage points, to 19 per cent. “The near...