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With the RBA lifting the cash rate to 4.6% and hinting it could go higher, income investors are being pushed to rethink where their dividends come from and how reliable those payouts might be. Higher borrowing costs and slow domestic growth can be a problem for some companies, yet they can also reward others with solid balance sheets. This article walks through three Australian dividend stocks from our domestic-oriented screener that appear well placed in this new rate reality. It explains...

Arena REIT recently disclosed that childcare operator Edge Early Learning failed to pay rent on 31 properties in Queensland and South Australia, exposing the REIT to a concentrated tenant default within its social infrastructure portfolio. This setback highlights how operator-specific stress in the childcare sector can quickly feed through to landlords that depend on long leases and near-full occupancy for income stability. We’ll now examine how the Edge Early Learning rent default could...