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Interest rates
RBA says low rates will push up house prices
Banking regulators are prepared to tighten lending standards if record low interest rates deliver the nation a new housing boom.
- by Shane Wright
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Australia seeking advice on Norwegian deaths following Pfizer vaccine
Health Minister Greg Hunt pointed out that in a US review of roughly 1.8 million doses of the vaccine there have been "very positive" results.
- by Rachel Clun
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Western alliance
Is Morrison ready for a Biden administration?
After years of navigating the Trump relationship, the Australian government now needs to move on from the most divisive US president in history.
- by Anthony Galloway
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Coronavirus pandemic
Coalition MPs call for caps to be reviewed after Emirates cancels flights
The Morrison government is under pressure from within to increase the caps on the number of Australians allowed back into the country after Emirates abruptly suspended flights and cut off a major option for stranded travellers trying to get home.
- by Mike Foley, Andrew Taylor, Anna Patty and Bevan Shields
Australian professor and his son freed from Qatari jail
An Australian public health professor and his son have been freed from a Qatari jail where they were held without charge for five months.
- by Mike Foley
Opinion
Australian economy
With superannuation choice there will be retirement consequences
If you were given the option to have some of your superannuation as pay right now rather than keep it aside for retirement, would you take it?
- by Jennifer Duke
Stranded Australians desperate to come home as political buck passing continues
Life for many Australians trapped abroad by caps on international arrivals is becoming a Kafkaesque nightmare.
- by Deborah Snow
War of words over free speech: who gets to judge what we see and say?
Social media critics on both sides are united in their call for consistency and clear standards for free speech.
- by Nick Bonyhady