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Reserve Bank officials have left the cash rate unchanged at a record low 0.25 per cent, allowing Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's federal budget to have the economic limelight.

University students will soon pay much more for law and arts degrees under controversial changes set to pass the Senate.

Millions of Australians will have income tax cuts fast-tracked in a federal budget set to focus on driving business investment and job creation.

Australia's share market has had its best session since June 16 as fund managers bought in after a negative September and a big-spending federal budget looms.

OZ Minerals has completed the purchase of Cassini Resources for what management hope will prove a long-life copper-nickel mine in Western Australia.

The federal finance minister has questioned the wisdom of Western Australia handing down a budget surplus in the middle of a global economic downturn.

The federal government will spend $1.1 billion on Western Australian road and rail projects, as part of a broader infrastructure package.

Every West Australian household will receive a $600 credit towards their electricity bills as part of the upcoming state budget.

Every Western Australian household will receive a $600 credit towards their electricity bills as part of the upcoming state budget.

Australia's share market has finished steeply lower on news US President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19.

Federal MPs are being urged to develop national principles to protect Aboriginal cultural heritage following the destruction of the Juukan Gorge rock shelters.

ANZ will pay a $10 million penalty for wrongly charging 69,000 customers more than $3 million in fees.

New Zealanders will soon be allowed to visit NSW and the Northern Territory when Australia opens its first international border since the coronavirus pandemic hit.

Western Australia will continue to be exposed to risks from ships arriving from coronavirus hotspots, the maritime union has warned.

Senior cabinet ministers are promising big changes in aged care after a damning report criticised the federal government's coronavirus response.

Western Australian authorities will keep a close watch on the easing of COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria amid growing pressure to reopen the state's borders.

The Maritime Union of Australia has agreed to end its industrial action at Patrick Terminals at its wharves in Fremantle, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

A Western Australian healthcare worker who approached COVID-infected ship crew without protective equipment has tested negative but been placed into quarantine.

Investors have made a spritely start to October and all ASX sectors finished higher following a good lead from Wall Street.

Western Australia’s job vacancies hit an eight-year high after soaring 91 per cent in recent months, as the state rebounds from COVID-induced restrictions.

Premier Mark McGowan has been accused of "protectionism" after he claimed reopening the borders to South Australia and the Northern Territory would provide no economic benefit.

Australian manufacturers across six priority areas will receive more help to expand in high-value areas through an almost $1.5 billion budget boost.

Flight Centre is closing 90 of its travel agencies across the world, having already cut about 4,000 jobs this year due to the pandemic ravaging the travel industry.

Australian Defence Force personnel are set to arrive in Port Hedland in Western Australia's north to help contain a COVID-19 outbreak linked to an offshore vessel.

Regional airline Rex has leased six Boeing 737 planes as it prepares to take on Qantas and Virgin with flights between capital cities next year.

The NSW premier insists the controversial Narrabri coal seam gas project went through a robust assessment before it was approved, sparking outrage from locals.

Investors on the ASX ramped up their sell-off after the first debate for the US presidency, and the market had its first monthly fall since the pandemic first gripped Australia.

Demand for new houses remained strong in August, particularly in Western Australia, following the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions in most jurisdictions.

Universities hammered by coronavirus border closures will be thrown a lifeline in next week's federal budget.

The risk of more COVID-19 outbreaks looms when ship crews are eventually granted long-overdue changeovers, the state government warns.

Bushfire and coronavirus-ravaged parts of regional Australia will share in $100 million of Commonwealth cash over the next two years.

Anthony Albanese has outlined Labor's alternative plan to rebuild the Australian economy, pitching a vision with nobody left behind.