Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Australians are “burning cash” waiting for approvals as he takes aim at Australia’s sluggish productivity rate ahead of a three-day talkfest in Canberra.

The treasurer said Australia is well-positioned to tackle productivity challenges at next week’s economic summit; Shadow ...

One of the nation’s most powerful pension funds wants Treasurer Jim Chalmers to reheat the asset recycling scheme pioneered ...

Jim Chalmers says it’s “not surprising” Australia’s birth rate has slowed given the “financial pressures” on families, ...

Critics are circling the government’s economic roundtable, but Jim Chalmers says good ideas are already surfacing, with more ...

One observer describes next week’s economic roundtable this way: the treasurer “has opened a can of worms – and everybody has ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been warned to keep his hands off negative gearing and instead tackle housing supply, with ...

Jim Chalmers has welcomed the Reserve Bank’s third rate cut in six months, after the cash rate was cut by 25 basis points to ...

Australian mortgage holders were promised financial relief when the Reserve Bank of Australia cut rates on Tuesday, but the ...

At yesterday’s investment roundtable, the treasurer was chatting with Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood in footage aired on SBS World News when he remarked, in audio recorded by a hot mic, ...

A former Treasury official has called Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ upcoming productivity roundtable a “stitch up” which seeks only ...

A push to host the Quad world summit in Brisbane, including US President Donald Trump, has received the enthusiastic backing ...