The Australian federal government will have to spend about half its total budget on health, aged care, defence, disability support and debt repayments by 2063 up from about a third now, official ...

Australian business conditions jumped in the second quarter, but the news was soured by a fall in confidence that followed the first rise in official interest rates in over a decade.

Australia's total spending on health was expected to increase the most as a share of GDP over the next 40 years, with the care economy increasing from around 8% of GDP currently to around 15% in ...