Central banker of the world's fastest growing economy says it's time to get moving.

Hong Kong-based fund manager John Ho is the first to admit he knows nothing about surfing, despite growing up in Sydney in the '80s and '90s.

Analysts should give up trying to predict what capital levels will be required in the wake of the financial system inquiry, says the review's chairman, David Murray.

The fall-out from the savaging of the oil price saw Australian LNG majors, Santos and Origin, reassuring investors that financing and expenditure would be reconfigured and that the economics of their massive projects still worked.

Australians pay far less tax than they believe a new report finds, and certainly far less tax than the Treasurer thinks they do.