Gareth Hutchens
Comm Bank faces court over $55m in overcharged customer fees
The corporate regulator has taken Commonwealth Bank to court for charging monthly access fees to customers who were entitled to fee waivers....
Virgin Australia’s bookings jump 40pc weeks before the government’s cheap airfares begin
Virgin Australia’s bookings jumped by 40 per cent on Thursday after the federal government announced it would subsidised half-price domestic flights between...
New Year’s resolution: Is it time to get a financial coach?
What were your New Year’s resolutions? Research regularly shows one of the most common resolutions people make is money related. Every summer...
ANZ customers lose access to millions of dollars in erroneous loan redraw balances
ANZ Bank has restricted access to loan redraw facilities for thousands of customers after discovering it had accidentally inflated their account balances...
NAB sees risk in coal and reward in renewables
It can be instructive listening to one businessman talk to another. On Friday, federal MP Craig Kelly, a former furniture salesman of...
Coronavirus is focusing attention on fragile global supply chains, so how will Australia respond?
The economic shutdown has focused much attention on supply chains. Take the lithium industry. For the past 20 years, China has worked...
What we can learn from the Morrison government’s $94 million crude oil purchase
Here’s something for economics students. Did you hear the Australian government bought $94 million of crude oil from the United States last week? If...
Why did the official unemployment rate barely rise in March, despite coronavirus spurring job losses?
Australia’s official unemployment rate only rose slightly last month to 5.2 per cent, up from 5.1 per cent in February. But how could...