The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided against Christmas cheer for homeowners by keeping the official cash interest rate unchanged at 1.5 percent.

A Venezuelan expat living in the US has become public enemy number one to the socialist dictatorship over a website he created which tracks black-market exchange rates for the country's currency.

Malcolm Turnbull has accused political rival Bill Shorten of forgetting poorer travellers as a solution over the backpacker tax impasse intensifies.

Unemployed miners in WA are being targeted with a fake jobs website that sounds very similar to a legitimate employment company.