Louise Brannelly

Brisbane

Business editor of The Courier-Mail. Email me: [email protected]

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Scandals, takeovers: A year to remember

Dec 30, 2024 | stockhead.com.au | Louise Brannelly

As we prepare to ring in 2025, here’s a look at the highs and lows of what proved an eventful 2024. JanuaryBarely a week into the new year and stevedoring firm DP World Australia’s protracted industrial battle with the Maritime Union of Australia was grabbing headlines and threatening to inflict major economic pain. While the dispute over wages and rostering began in 2023, it kicked up a notch in January amid reports a massive backlog of containers was costing the economy $84m a week.
Five reasons the UK economy struggled in 2023

Dec 31, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | David SMith |David Rogers |Paulina Duran |Louise Brannelly

After a turbulent year for the economy, you may have had enough of 2023, though it ended on a brighter note, with UK inflation falling below 4 per cent and chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt somewhat controversially finding room to reduce taxes in his November 22 autumn statement. His tax cut for individuals, a 2p reduction in national insurance, will take effect shortly.