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The 2026 global economy: nervously muddling through
The world economy enters 2026 in a nervous state. Volatility and cautious consumers are the norm, even though growth has proven surprisingly resilient.
ATO will add security layer to agent linking
Second commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn said both the ATO and tax agents were entrusted with extensive personal information and cyber criminals...
Why time’s up for the mischief in off-market share buybacks
Franking credits belong to all shareholders and streaming credits to a particular shareholder class is normally prohibited because it’s...
From stocks and bonds to dollars and cents
It was during the recession in early 2000 that Henry Ong decided on a different career path. As a student, he had completed a degree in applied...
Australians send 300,000 complaints to AFCA in 4 years
AFCA also identified and reported an estimated 227 definite systemic issues and serious contraventions of the law to federal regulators,...
Online selling improving SME resilience, Amazon reports
The report, Small and Medium Business Empowerment Report, revealed that in the past 12 months, 14,000 Australian businesses, many of them SMEs,...
Unemployment down again, but it’s not all good news
Bjorn Jarvis, head of labour statistics at the ABS, said while the number of people working fewer hours due to sickness was around a third higher...
Buyback law closes loophole ‘but franking credits here to stay’
He said off-market share buybacks were being used by large corporations – such as BHP and Westpac - to preference institutional investors and the...
Lack of skilled workers holding back business
And unless there is more emphasis on education and training, there will be an even greater shortage in the coming years, said Innes Willox chief...
Australian wages growing at less than half the pace of inflation
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ latest data showed the WPI at an annual rate of 3.1 per cent, less than half of the inflation figure of 7.3...
Australian businesses still struggling to fill jobs
NAB surveyed 760 SMEs in the September quarter and found that those who expect the impact to be very significant in the next 12 months also rose...
