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A Hong Kong-based logistics giant is making moves toward Australia.
Rockefellers roll forward on green tide
The heirs to one of the world’s great oil empires are getting out of the family business.
WA digs up new top dollar
New WA Department of Mines and Petroleum figures show a 20 per cent increase in the state’s total resource industry value from last year.
Calls for big tax grab as giants hide their wealth
Australia will seek to claw back billions of dollars that big mining, building and technology companies funnel out of the country to avoid tax.
APRA's banking shake-up to bring better view
APRA has put up a discussion paper and draft amendments ahead of possible disclosure reforms.
Cost-saving choices cut for better answers
Central Queensland University is preventing students from passing based on sheer accident, becoming the first to abolish multiple-choice exams.
Our debt is not deadly, say the people who know
A group of 63 Australian economists have released a joint statement rejecting the Federal Government’s repeated insistence that the country is facing a “budget emergency”.
Rules change for cleaner advice
Financial advisers’ record-keeping obligations have been updated following industry consultation.
Tax cops could hear knock from AFP
The Australian Taxation Office's internal police could themselves be investigated by Australian Federal Police anti-corruption officers.
Costs counted as sea threatens bricks and mortar
A new report could test the resolve of infrastructure-friendly but ecologically-ignorant politicians.
Oil needs drop to new low
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has called a sharp drop in global oil demand “nothing short of remarkable”.
Roving printer promises easier office
Japan is testing a robot that could end the plague of lost productivity from long walks to the office printer.
Bonus shift shows money not a man's game
The finance industry has made some positive moves to close the gender pay gap.
Cable competition fine providing lines stay open
The ACCC will not block TPG’s plans to install fibre-optic internet connections to the basements of high-rise apartment blocks.
Good points sought in move to US-style uni
An Australian professor of economics has picked apart what he sees as the main failings of the Group of Eight universities in the stance on deregulation.
$10k Tax offer to move bean-counters to the big smoke
The Australian Tax Office is closing a string of its regional outposts, and is offering staff $10,000 to move to the capital.
G20 should build arena for louder whistle-blowing
Experts say Australian governments can stop corruption while saving money and even lives, through enhanced whistleblower protections.
Factories not making best moves to grow
Just 37 per cent of Australian manufacturers are taking measures that boost profit, productivity and market share, research shows.
Jobs boss says Government should water fertile ground
Business leaders have warned that there are widening gaps in employment, wage and workplace equality in labour markets worldwide.
Space mining defined for age of meteoric profit
The ASTEROIDS Act has been tabled in the US House of Representatives, seeking to define the rules for a new era of resource exploration in space.
Emails another brick in foundation of federal ICAC
There are more calls for a federal anti-corruption body to be set up, as builders’ donations continue to trouble NSW politicians.