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Daniel Ziffer
Daniel Ziffer has worked at the intersection of journalism and public debate for nearly two decades. He covers Melbourne-based issues for ABC News. Daniel is the long-time senior producer of Mornings with Jon Faine, ABC Radio Melbourne, and has worked on air and in production at Macquarie Radio, as a freelance foreign correspondent based in New York City, journalist at The Age and a magazine editor.
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Australians are more dissatisfied with their economic situation than ever before; ASX ends slightly lower — as it happened
By business reporters Daniel Ziffer and Michael Janda
Australians are more dissatisfied with their economic situation than ever before, with young people particularly downbeat. Meanwhile, the ASX has ended modestly down on Wednesday. See how the day unfolded on our business news blog.
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Despite the biggest wages rise on record, the real pay of Australian workers is stuck near a 13-year low
By business reporters Michael Janda and Daniel Ziffer
Wages post their biggest quarterly increase in at least a quarter of a century, due to big pay boosts for aged care staff and workers on awards.
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Freight giant DP World recovers from cyber attack, but warns investigation and remediation is 'ongoing'
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer and Matt Bamford
DP World is a global behemoth in shipping and logistics. But a cyber attack on its Australian operation has crippled some of our busiest ports in the busy lead up to Christmas.
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Hundreds of thousands of businesses lost money in the Optus outage. They want the telco to pay up
By business reporters Daniel Ziffer and Michael Janda
Hundreds of thousands of businesses saw trade literally stall as the Optus outage put payment systems, internet services, phones and work-from-home set-ups out of action. Now, many are demanding compensation.
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As it happened: ASX closes higher as Telstra bounces on Optus woes, but miners sink
By business reporters Daniel Ziffer, Michael Janda and Nassim Khadem
The Australian market closed higher with solid gains for most sectors offset by steep losses in the big mining and energy sectors. Follow the day's financial news on our live blog.
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Analysis
analysis:Why do taxpayers reward companies that don't support them back?
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
Lots of multinational companies use legal means to reduce the amount of tax they pay. If governments supported companies that paid more generously, it might shift the dial on what's considered acceptable.
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Property is white hot and the RBA is changing the way it examines the market
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
The central bank insists housing is still a topic of intense focus, as rents and prices rocket, despite a key analysis group within the RBA not meeting for more than a year.
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How to fix the gender pay gap, according to one of the 'bloke-iest' companies in Australia
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
In early 2024, more than 4.6 million workers are about to find out how much less the company they work for pays female staff. Many companies are working now to fix the problem.
As two controversial watchdogs were shut down there was little anger — and a lot of admin
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
The Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) and the Registered Organisations Commission (ROC) were controversial watchdogs. But the last days before their closure, revealed in previously secret documents, were a flurry of questions about payroll and administration.
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All big four banks predict November rate hike, ASX closes in the red — as it happened
By business reporters Daniel Ziffer, Michael Janda, Kate Ainsworth and Rachel Pupazzoni
RBA governor Michele Bullock tells Senate estimates that while slowing, annual rental prices are expected to reach 10 per cent in the coming months, the big four banks say another rate hike is imminent, and the ASX ended lower.
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The cash to fix the climate crisis and cost-of-living pressures is there if tax evasion is stopped
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
Australians hold more than one-third of a trillion dollars in known tax havens, and profit-shifting by multinational firms deprives Treasury of almost $11 billion a year, finds a new international report.
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Analysis
analysis:What would Marcus Aurelius make of people who have their camera off during online meetings?
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
Ancient philosopher Marcus Aurelius on online meetings, hot-desking and what to do if you send an email to a friend but accidentally reply-all to the whole company.
November rate hike by RBA still possible despite softer jobs data, ASX down 1.4pc after interest rate fears on Wall Street — as it happened
By business reporters Daniel Ziffer and Kate Ainsworth
Softer-than-expected employment data hasn't ruled out a possible rate hike by the RBA at next month's meeting, while the ASX followed Wall Street's lead and finished 1.4 per cent lower at the close of trade on Thursday.
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ASX finishes lower for the day as oil prices rattle global markets, Westpac and Qantas see leadership shake-ups — as it happened
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
The ASX finished lower at the close of trade on Monday over global geopolitical worries, while Westpac announced a new chair and Qantas saw more shuffling of its senior executives. Look back on the day's business and markets news as it happened with our blog.
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Analysis
analysis:The former boss of PwC united all sides of politics in an hour by embodying Alan Bond's infamous phrase
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
As the boss of PwC at the time of the tax leak scandal, Luke Sayers's evidence at a Senate inquiry was meant to provide answers. But the exposure of a potentially incriminating contradiction means PwC will face even more scrutiny, writes Daniel Ziffer.
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This seaside town is so popular that employers are turning an aged care home into accommodation for their staff
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
Converted airports, refurbished nursing homes, caravans, sheds and school camps aren't considered suitable housing options. But they're all in the mix as workers struggle to find a place to live near their workplace that they can afford.
Four-day week enshrined in first Australian union agreement, with concept spreading
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
With unions embedding trials of the four-day work week in industrial agreements, is this the moment the working-hour-reducing concept goes mainstream?
Qantas reveals results, NAB CEO says recession unlikely
By business reporters Daniel Ziffer and Emily Stewart
Follow the day's events and insights as they happen with our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog — as it happened.
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The Aussie dollar could slump below 60 US cents, bringing with it pain and gain
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
For foreign tourists? Great. For travellers? Terrible. For the economy? A mix. The fall in the Australian dollar has created winners and losers across the economy.
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Australians are reducing their spending as the cost of living soars. But that doesn't mean they're making rational choices
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
Discretionary spending is money you don't need to spend to keep yourself fed, housed and clothed. What's happening at alpine resorts — remote and relatively expensive — tells us about an important shift in the Australian economy.
Energy sector drives ASX higher as strike threat raises gas prices — as it happened
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
The threat of strike action at Western Australia's key gas export facilities sends global prices surging and lifts energy stocks and the ASX.
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Slowdown in consumption 'across the board' as higher rates and inflation bite, explaining RBA pause, as dollar dips — as it happened
By business reporters Daniel Ziffer and Rachel Pupazzoni
A sharp dip in retail sales volumes offered a big hint as to why there was no interest rate hike from the RBA this week, as the ASX took a dive after that bad news out of the US yesterday about its credit rating. Catch up on the market activity from today.
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The cost of bread could get higher amid the cost of living crunch. Here's why
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
Global wheat prices are rising sharply after a UN-brokered deal to ship grain out of Ukraine ended last month, with Australian farmers set to benefit but consumers, especially in some of the world's poorest countries, to pay the price.
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'We're not paying the price': The boomers boosting inflation as the RBA lifts rates to fight it
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer
The Reserve Bank is hiking interest rates — and hitting borrowers — to fight high inflation, but data suggests the fight is being undermined by big-spending baby boomers.
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ANZ boss says half the bank's home loan customers have called to change their interest rate
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer with wires
ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott tells a parliamentary committee the bank's customers are proving resilient in the face of higher interest rates, with half engaging the bank to improve their mortgage rate.
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