Record $271bn stashed in offset accounts; Origin ups dividends

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Calls to regulate Australia’s biggest consulting firms will be considered by the Albanese government, amid calls from a Senate committee to name and shame staff at PwC Australia responsible for the firm’s tax scandal. 

A date for the outcome of the $400m Forum Finance fraud case in the Federal Court has been set after the judge involved was injured, forcing delays to finalising the judgment.

A series of retail property deals by boutique fund managers has spread to larger buyers keen to get into the resources-rich WA market where properties worth billions are changing hands.