With the ink barely dry on the report of its aged care royal commission, the Morrison government has been told it needs to spend big to improve the lot of older Australians. But it is likely that younger people are...
A military uprising in the West African nation of Guinea has sparked concerns about a potential supply squeeze for bauxite, a key raw material in aluminium production, and also cast a shadow on Rio Tinto’s plans to develop its...
Hugh Stephens' story is something of a legend in local tech circles. He dropped out of university, had a great idea and within a very short time the 29-year-old had a multimillion-dollar business. The idea was to come up with...
He said the banks' 'net interest margin', the difference between what they charge customers for loans and what they had to pay for funding, was under sustained pressure. Mr North said that as the cash rate was cut from the...
"Graincorp provides a valuable service to the nation's grain growers and we wish them well," he said. In a statement, LTAP said that before announcing its proposal in December, it had assembled an expert team "to assess Graincorp from outside". In...
Investors around the world are worried record amounts of government stimulus will flow through to higher consumer prices as the global economy recovers from COVID-19. The fears have sparked major sell-offs in international sharemarkets and were kicked into overdrive when...
China’s trade war against Australia is taking a turn for the worse as iron  prices plummet from record highs, exposing the economy to new pain. Iron ore has remained the one bright spot in Australia’s relationship with China over the...
A backdoor, in cybersecurity terms, is a method of bypassing security controls to access a computer system or encrypted data. While backdoors can be common in some network equipment and software because developers create them to manage the gear,...
Australian consumers look set to pay much more for gas in the future as prices spike dramatically in both the local and export markets. New research from analysis group EnergyQuest shows that prices in the east coast gas market, where...
Members Equity (ME) Bank has been hit with 62 criminal charges over allegations it made false and misleading claims to home loan customers and faces a maximum fine of $94.3 million. Corporate regulator ASIC is seeking multimillion-dollar penalties over the...
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