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A Senate inquiry has found Australian students need specific lessons in how to behave.

Before having our first baby last year, we wondered whether we had the money, time and necessary skills to raise a child. Perhaps you find yourself contemplating the same? Many people certainly have, as birth rates have been declining across the world for the past 200 years.

The report highlights the risk of a vicious cycle, where low interest rates fail to stimulate meaningful economic growth and cause a recession.

Federal treasurer downplays prospect of posting a second successive budget surplus

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The mid-year budget update will reveal a substantial improvement to the bottom line, but not a surplus, the federal treasurer says.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said it is an urgent task for the UK to address its tax and spending policies.

The Bank of England’s governor has repeatedly warned that it will not cut UK interest rates any time soon, even with a recent sharp fall in consumer price inflation.

The UK economy is set for the second-slowest growth of the world’s G7 advanced economies, according to new forecasts.