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A media analyst and commentator is standing for election to the board of Fairfax Media in an effort to help it improve its flagging financial performance.
Australia's banking system has been given its semi-annual tick of approval but the central bank is keeping a watchful eye on potential longer-term risks.
Australian sheep exporters should consider focusing on Middle East countries with a history of accepting their animals after a shipment was rejected by Bahrain and Pakistan, the WA Farmer
The economic ties between China and Australia are extending beyond the resources sector to financial services, education, tourism and agriculture, the federal government says.
The federal government has announced a crackdown on public service travel, recruitment advertising and printing in a bid to save the budget $550 million.
A coalition government would provide cheaper broadband services more quickly to Australians with its alternative national broadband network (NBN), opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbu
New Zealand-based resins maker Nuplex Industries will eliminate up to 80 jobs in a restructuring that will close four plants NZ and Australia, including one in Canning Vale, over the next
Consolidated Media Holdings shareholders will get to vote on a $1.94 billion takeover bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Limited at a special meeting in October.
Consumer group Choice has called for greater powers to be given to the energy market regulator to ensure "unjustifiable" rises in power prices over the past five years don't happen again.
Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says the opposition should release its costed policy for a national broadband network (NBN), instead of launching a survey.
Australia's live sheep exports to the Middle East will resume this week, but producers will have to foot the bill for new measures introduced to appease importers.
The federal government has reported a slightly smaller-than-forecast budget deficit for 2011/12, helped by higher individual tax receipts and lower outgoings.
Treasurer Wayne Swan has denied his comments about "cranks and crazies" taking over the US Republican Party were directed at vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan.
Newly installed Macmahon chief executive Ross Carroll says large scale rail projects will be off the agenda under his leadership as the company adapts to life after the resources boom.
If live sheep exports to the Middle East do not resume soon, nations with lower animal welfare standards could fill the gap, Premier Colin Barnett has warned.
Qantas will be split up and sold off at a "rock-bottom price" within four years if its proposed tie-up with Emirates goes ahead, the transport union says.
Growing interest from China and Australians wanting to explore their own backyard is set to boost tourism spending to almost $72 billion over the coming year.