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Some doctors are working to end the links between GPs and big pharmaceutical companies, which are known to flood the industry with incentives to prescribe their products.
Industry to address ill-health of life insurance
Two big finance industry associations have joined forces to fix problems in Australia’s life insurance industry.
Kiwis could have keys to good reform
Australia could have much to learn from reforms to New Zealand’s higher education sector.
Water as new way to proper pay
The gender pay gap is smaller at corporations where the CEO has a daughter, so a new campaign has been launched to get more daughters for executives.
Brandis brings business into security fold
Attorney-General George Brandis is taking his enhanced security evangelism to the business community, with a series of meetings to see if the private sector backs his view.
Big uni drops seven stocks for poor green values
One big Australian university is getting rid of its investments in mining companies.
Miners might find little love in tax check
A Senate inquiry into alleged tax-dodging by multinational companies operating in Australia could be awkward for some mining bosses.
Big fund gets $600m cold feet over green power
Global fund managers have responded to the warnings from the renewable energy target review, seeing a write-down of Pacific Hydro for a few hundred million dollars.
RBA opens door to fixing house price
Economists say the soaring level of house approvals are great, but property prices will probably stay high.
Australia sleeping through dawn of digital money
Billions could be lost if the financial world does not embrace new technologies, one peak body has warned.
Prizes poised for undervalued count
Names have been put forward for an award to honour the top Women in Financial Services.
Study to find how bad apples rise
“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” - an old adage reinforced almost daily, but does the tendency for the vile to get ahead really exist?
Billions will swing on voters' whim
Politicians are playing a multi-billion dollar game of chicken in Victoria.
Hospitals hit in raid to turn over WA assets
West Australian Premier Colin Barnett has earmarked a set of sites to be sold in the Federal Government’s asset recycling scheme.
Two states' pokies laws move further apart
The ACT Government is introducing new laws to help reduce the toll pokies machines take on vulnerable gamblers, while Queensland seems to be heading the opposite way.
Cormann calls for names to take a slice of Medibank
The Federal Government is softening the ground ahead of the Medibank Private sale.
Tax grift taking billions
New investigations have shown just how much money Australia’s biggest companies are avoiding paying in tax.
Critics slam plan to watch dodgy planners
The Financial Services Council (FSC) is pushing for an for an independent governing body for the industry, a move which has been slammed by some big names in the sector.
Details on decisions show relief is given
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has reported on a raft of applications for legal relief, including some of the reason they were refused.
Home-buyers report five year run-up for many
A new study shows that twenty-five per cent of first home buyers saved for more than five years before buying their property.
Vital spend drops to unhealthy level
Federal Government health spending has dropped to a record low, according to new figures.