While I’ve taken a few long shots in today’s Melbourne Cup, gambling that the next move in rates is up isn’t something I’m prepared to bet on.

Macquarie Capital’s quants swap stock tickers for saddlecloths in their annual Melbourne Cup Quant Style report, blending AI, data science and a touch of humour in this cult favourite take on race predictions.

Not near a TV for Australia's most popular annual gallop? You can stream the 2025 Melbourne Cup to your phone, tablet or laptop on the go. Here's who has it.

NSW Coalition leader Mark Speakman has come up with a good policy for older Australians in big houses who’d like to sell but then have the big cost of stamp duty on their new house purchase. While it might free up family homes, how do deeply indebted state governments pay for this?

The evidence is stark: the Australian government’s relative expenditure on older Australians has increased significantly in recent decades, funded by those of working age.

Once again, the Nationals have got out in front of the Liberals on a key issue, this time net zero, announcing on Sunday they were dumping their commitment to it.

It's the political equivalent of a school-kid promising to put Coca-Cola in the bubblers, but it's happening here and now. Independent MP for Kooyong, Dr Monique Ryan, says she's about to drop a new Bill to make the humble schooner cheaper locally in a bid to help out local breweries.

It's easy to look at the 30,000 recent Amazon layoffs and blame AI for taking those jobs. But that's not the whole story.

In Australia data on how your home might be at risk from floods isn't readily available to all households. But your insurer has it already.