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Most discussion of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) this month has centred on the cash rate. Yet a few days after theMonetary PolicyBoard's 3 November decision, the RBA published a media release about a very different kind of cash: the physical notes and …

The House of Representatives passed Tax Reform No. 3, the minimum tax rates bill and Tax Reform No. 4 on 29 October. All three remain bills, not law, until they pass the Senate.

At the till, a card payment looks the same as it did in September. The terminal lights up, the card is tapped or inserted, and the sale goes through. What has changed sits underneath. From 1 October 2026, two parts of the Reserve Bank …

At the hearings, Liberal Senator Jane Hume asked whether strengthening existing anti-avoidance rules, naming section 100A, Division 7A and Part IVA, could do theJobwithout new red tape.

Every year the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assesses the facilities that clear and settle trades on Australia's main securities exchange. These are not household names, but they sit at the centre of the financial system. When shares change hands or certain securities andDerivativesare …

In the first three years, the plan would be partly funded by abolishing Labor's $250 tax offset for wage earners.

Regulatory reports often bury their most telling signals in lists. In the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) 2025/26 assessment of the ASX clearing and settlement facilities, one such list sets out where the RBA's supervisors will concentrate their attention. Two named projects appear on …