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Consumers appear to have shaken off their budget cut woes, with confidence levels rebounding solidly.

A slowdown in consumer demand is expected to have helped keep a lid on inflation in the June quarter, allowing the Reserve Bank to keep the cash rate at record lows.

Business leader Duncan Calder has resigned as the national president of the Australia China Business Council after being charged with sex offences.

Australia has moved up two places in the 2014 Global Innovation Index as a result of strong performance in the country’s education and infrastructure sectors.

Resources companies will have to pay their next instalment of the mining tax after the federal government today rejected an overnight attempt by the Senate to retain funding mechanisms, despite voting to abolish the tax.

The head of Australia's largest online employment website says more people will lose their jobs and will have fewer opportunities to find work as businesses increasingly replace labour with technology.

Treasurer Joe Hockey says governments are out of money and can only fund vital infrastructure with funds from the private sector.

The first review of the financial system since 1997 may result in lower superannuation fund fees and slow the erosion of retirement nest eggs.

The Reserve Bank of Australia said it was difficult to judge whether low interest rates would be enough to offset the effect of budget cuts and mining investment slowdown.

Consumer confidence has bounced back to levels not seen since before the federal government's tough budget was released in May.

Clive Palmer has said the repeal of the carbon tax lies in the hands of the Abbott government.

Former New South Wales opposition leader John Brogden has been appointed managing director of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, after serving as chief executive of the Financial Services Council.

Australia’s Export Finance and Insurance Corporation has found that exporters are growing in confidence, with 95 per cent of small and medium enterprise exporters predicting their overseas sales to either remain the same or grow in the next 12 months.

The Abbott government's carbon tax repeal bills have been defeated in the Senate.

Australia's unemployment rate has risen back to 6 per cent amid an increase in the number of people looking for work.

Fewer Australians are spiralling into bankruptcy, with figures showing the lowest level of personal insolvency in almost 10 years.

The Tourism Council WA has attributed the creation of 2,000 jobs in the sector to a major rise in domestic tourism.

Australian firms have shrugged off the sharp slide in consumer sentiment since the federal budget, with business confidence increasing in the past month.

Qantas will cut 167 jobs from its engineering division as part of the embattled airline's ongoing turnaround plan.

Health workers at Perth's biggest hospitals say they'll walk off the job in a series of rolling stoppages after the state government refused to talk about a new pay offer.

The Abbott government's paid parental leave scheme is expensive, unfair and will do nothing to boost numbers of working women, a new report argues.

The Australian Greens have urged environment minister Greg Hunt to listen to the large group of scientists and experts rejecting Colin Barnett’s shark cull.

The economist behind Australia’s direct action emissions reduction scheme has told a Perth audience he predicts politicians will continue to change their position on climate change policy as the new Senate gears up to vote on the proposed repeal of the carbon tax.

Premier Colin Barnett says he would have preferred to see state members of parliament receive a lower pay rise than they were granted last week.

The Reserve Bank of Australia still has "ammunition" on interest rates but governor Glenn Stevens says previous cuts are still working their way through the economy.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced plans to educate new recruits from the indigenous community in a new federal government program based on the GenerationOne employment model.

The latest round of national research grants has once again highlighted the University of Western Australia as the state’s leading research institution, with Curtin University of Technology following close behind.

Auditor general Colin Murphy tabled a report in parliament today that showed that while the royalties for regions program had provided substantial infrastructure and services to regional Western Australia, it is still unclear whether they are delivering their intended outcomes.

More than 4,100 Western Australians will take part in the federal and state government versions of disability care, which will run in conjunction from next week.

Australia needs to have a grown-up conversation about the GST if the states are expected to fulfil their responsibilities.

Welfare cuts due to come into effect next week are in limbo with the federal government conceding it has run out of time to pass the measures through parliament.