Politics and policy

After decades of complacency and at times outright condescension, Australia is finally taking its Pacific Island neighbours seriously.

The banks have been quick to increase mortgage rates. But when the RBA starts cutting, will they be as fast to do the same?

Labor's reversal on Stage 3 has opened the door for the Coalition to come up with a bigger tax reform agenda. This could include a proposal that both major parties have, up until this point, been reticent to talk about.

Labor backbenchers attended two meetings on Monday. Only one was briefed to the press.

Now that the Coalition has resolved to wave through changes to the Stage 3 tax cuts, attention turns to how Peter Dutton will take the fight to Labor at the next election.

The government is set to appoint another military officer to be its public face on cybersecurity.

After months of silence, the government finally released details of its upcoming fuel efficiency policy, which brings Australia into line with the US, but still behind Europe.

Wary of angering middle-income voters, neither the Coalition or the Greens appear likely to block the government's stage three tax cuts reversal.

China's decision to impose a suspended death sentence on an Australian writer underscores the uneasy truce between Canberra and Beijing as both governments try to stabilise.

The five-year countdown hasn’t started yet for the National Housing Accord’s promised 1.2 million new homes. But the property development lobby says it’s already dead without serious intervention in the upcoming federal budget.

The growing momentum of the former president's campaign is prompting senior figures in the Albanese government to ponder the ramifications of a second Donald Trump presidency.

The federal Coalition will not stand in the way of Labor passing its stage 3 overhaul to avoid being wedged by the government.

Will the government's stage 3 shift open the door to broader changes to the tax system, or slam it shut completely?

The Albanese government's overhaul of the stage 3 tax cuts has set the stage for fights on multiple fronts. But the fiercest of them will be fought in the outer suburbs.

The news that the government is proposing an increase in sophisticated investor thresholds lit up LinkedIn in a way that Twitter scandals used to. But it increasingly looks as though the media and the ecosystem have run ahead of themselves on the yarn.

The former prime minister, who introduced the stage 3 tax cuts, says the Albanese government has removed the 'big reform' of the package.

The Prime Minister had plenty to share about the government's hopes for "middle Australia". It's what he didn't say that was most revealing.

Now that the government's plans for changes to the Stage 3 tax cuts are clear, the Prime Minister faces the task of convincing voters that breaking his promise to leave them unchanged is justified.

The Prime Minister will seek to rely on the changed economic circumstances to argue why he needed to change the stage 3 tax cuts.

If death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, then broken promises in politics surely runs a close third.

At the start of this month, Capital Brief stumbled on the massive story that the Albanese government was planning to overhaul the stage 3 tax cuts. Here’s how it played out.

A new CEDA report suggests the federal government should arm businesses with "dynamic capabilities" with more funding to help unlock productivity growth in the economy.

The government is overhauling the tax cuts by keeping the 37% marginal rate.

While Albanese’s media team spent much of Monday afternoon hosing down reports they were about to overhaul the stage three tax cuts, Capital Brief has been told that a change will be put to cabinet this morning.

Speculation is mounting that the government is gearing up to amend the upcoming tax cuts amid a growing focus on providing cost-of-living relief.

Chinese stocks keep falling, despite a push by Beijing to talk up the world's second largest economy at Davos. Is this a signal of trouble ahead, or a buying opportunity?

Internal emails show Industry department officials gave their counterparts at Finance less than a week to consider a union appointment to the $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund.