The central bank hopes productivity will recover to boost economic growth and help business alleviate cost pressures.

Half the public servants employed at Australia’s national regulator for privacy and freedom of information never work from ...

In this podcast we talk to commission chair Danielle Wood about the housing challenge, as well as Australia’s parlous productivity performance generally and her drive to get some fresh ideas on ...

We talk to productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood about the housing challenge, as well as Australia's parlous productivity performance generally.

Penny Wong tells the Financial Review Business Summit that tariffs are the new reality; Bill Shorten warns Victoria is a challenge for federal Labor. How the day unfolded.

says Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood. Half as many houses are being built per hour worked today compared with 30 years ago and building times have blown out since 2015 because of ...

CANBERRA -- The rate at which Australia is building homes has fallen by half over the last 30 years, a government report has found.

DANIELLE WOOD, PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION CHAIR: You are looking at standalone built houses, the average time to build a house from woe to go has increased from about six months 10 years ago to 10 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Building a house in Australia takes almost twice as long as a decade ago as building firms fail to adopt new techniques, locking ...

Home values jumped in the month the Reserve Bank cut interest rates, with Australia looking to have exited one of its ...