and unlike the official poverty measure, which largely ignores geography, it accounts for regional cost-of-living differences. According to researchers at Columbia University, who calculated what ...

Originally committed as an election promise, Labor will attempt to legislate its bid to give most Australian families three ...

The discrepancy is because the cost of rent and medical expenses are not used to calculate the consumer price index, from ...

Financial markets are betting the Reserve Bank will preview a rates reprieve in February, with official figures showing the RBA's preferred measure of inflation fell to 3.2 per cent over the year to ...

The legislation will scrap the existing activity test, which measures the amount of support given with a household’s working or volunteer hours, and instead measure ... s cost-of-living crisis ...