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 Legal experts have suggested mining magnate Clive Palmer's promised High Court challenge against Labor's carbon tax may be nothing more than hot air that won't come to pass.

Putting more information on business loans and financing into the public arena would help turn the spotlight on the struggles of small businesses, the coalition says.

 Fares for Australia's domestic flights have crept higher, official figures show.

Rio Tinto has signed up another group as preferred contractor for its expansion of its iron ore operations in the Pilbara, inking a framework agreement with Downer EDI.

The Australian share market closed lower after weaker metals prices weighed on mining stocks along with concerns about China's demand for commodities.

IT services company Empired has won a $5 million contract for the Ichthys liquefied natural gas project.

Police & Nurses Credit Society is in discussions with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and its members to change its name to P&N Bank.

Resources companies in the state's north are bracing for Tropical Cyclone Lua, which is expected to intensify as it approaches the Pilbara coast.

Spuds have become a political hot potato as the state opposition seeks to stamp out the nation's last remaining potato regulator.

Australia's taxation commissioner believes the task force set up to tackle tax evasion through overseas havens has had some significant successes.

Former prime minister John Howard has joined senior Liberals in attacking the federal government's rejection of his colleague Peter Costello for the job as chair of the nation's sovereign wealth fu

Fortescue Metals Group says the overnight doubling of its recent bond offering means that it doesn't need to tap US debt markets again to help pay for its $US8.4 billion ($A8.06 billion) iron ore p

Diploma Group has hit back at union claims it is not paying sub-contractors at Western Australia's new Cabinet offices currently under construction at Hale House, saying the allegations were design

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has held open the prospect of further reducing company tax with business groups criticising the size of the latest cut.

Leighton Holdings subsidiary John Holland and construction firm Macmahon Holdings have won a $340 million contract for onshore work on Darwin's Ichthys gas project.

 The federal government is confident its carbon tax will survive a High Court challenge from mining magnate Clive Palmer.

Myer boss Bernie Brookes has tried to paint a rosy picture for the struggling department store chain's future despite forecasting flagging sales and earnings.

The Australian share market has opened slightly lower as resources stocks lost ground due to a fall in commodity prices.

The Australian dollar has lost 0.7 US cent, falling to a new seven-week low against a stronger US dollar.

Stocks have ended pretty much where they started on Wall Street, a day after the market had its biggest gain of the year.

Nexus Energy has been approached by big energy companies seeking a slice of its Crux joint venture in Western Australia in order to secure future liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply.

Mining giant Rio Tinto has awarded contracts collectively worth around $100 million to global power and automation technology group ABB, to construct 17 power distribution substations to support Ri

The Australian dollar finished marginally weaker after a fall in late trade.

Mining and mining related businesses make up 20 per cent of the national economy and the sector is much larger than many people think, a Minerals Council of Australia report says.

Labor and the Australian Greens have seized on the CSIRO's latest State of the Climate report to again argue Australia is right to be putting a price on carbon emissions from the middle of this yea

The Australian share market finished on a positive note after Wall Street closed at its highest level since the end of 2007.

Australians are opting for overseas rather than local holidays but work trips and visits to family and friends have boosted domestic travel.

Perth’s residential rental vacancy rate hit a four-year low in the month of February, falling to just 1.6 per cent and placing upward pressure on rents, new research shows.

The banking industry has admitted it is struggling to gain the public's trust in explaining why mortgage rates need to rise independently of the Reserve Bank.

 Labor has struggled to win voter support in Western Australia because it hasn't been responsive enough to the WA view of the world, a federal minister says.

Australand is hoping the success of its $2 billion Port Coogee coastal marina project, which took out two national awards at the weekend, will stimulate the state government to allow more innovativ

Wayne Swan probably isn’t surprised by the response to his comments on a handful of Australia’s wealthiest individuals.