Australia’s mid-year budget update will reveal a lower-than-expected level of debt, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said.

Australians shouldn't expect a second a federal budget surplus forecast in the mid-year update, the federal treasurer says.

Stronger than expected population growth made inflation hardier than most experts predicted and property prices defied ...

Borrowing costs will overtake the NDIS as the fastest-growing area of federal government spending this financial year.

Interest repayments have surged past the National Disability Insurance Scheme as the fastest-growing spending pressure on the ...

Australia’s trade surplus widened in October on exports driven by metal ores and minerals and a decline in imports.

The weak economy probably means the next RBA rates move – short of an inflation surprise next month – will be a cut ...

Australia posted a seasonally adjusted merchandise trade surplus of A$7.129 billion in October, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Everything Anthony Albanese has done since the election betrays an utter indifference to sharpening the ability of a ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s plunging approval rating, stoked by public discontent on everything from ...

The mid-year budget update will reveal a substantial improvement to the bottom line, but not a surplus, the federal treasurer ...