People
Gaming
Pokies operators fume over $85m levy
Eli Greenblat Tabcorp and Tatts are hit with nearly $85m in levy charges on pokies, despite owning gaming machines for just 46 days.
Grocery chains put heat on suppliers
Adele Ferguson When it comes to the numbers in retailing, nothing is ever straightforward.
Insurance
Health policies 'confusing'
Madeleine Heffernan Even basic health insurance policies confuse people, the industry ombudsman says.
Mining services
Orica's chief confident despite gloom
Georgia Wilkins Orica chief executive Ian Smith remains defiant in the face of a slowing mining cycle.
Banking
Name change part of bank's market bid
Clancy Yeates Beirut Hellenic Bank seeks to broaden its appeal by changing its name to Bank of Sydney.
Markets
US jobs figures boost investor confidence
Max Mason The sharemarket closed higher, but well off the day's peak, led by a rally from miners.
CBD
Bouris facing judgment, too
Ben Butler CBD can't help thinking it would be good if some intelligence was embedded into Celebrity Apprentice.
Banking
Investors await assurance Clyne on right path at NAB
NAB chief Cameron Clyne saw only one way out of the GFC.
Millionaires snub taxman
Tim Colebatch If you earn enough money, paying tax can be optional. Tax Office data reveals that 70 Australians with incomes of more than $1 million each in 2010-11 paid no income tax whatever.
More mobiles than people
Craig Timberg Sometime this year, there will be more mobile device connections than there are people.
Brian Robins
Electricity shock for powerless people
Brian Robins The way the national electricity market operates can seem one of the marvels of the universe.
Adele Ferguson
2Day FM outrage: people power trumps regulators
Adele Ferguson The backlash 2Day FM is facing is yet another example of the power of social media to exert huge pressure on companies rather than ineffectual regulators.
'People's dynasty' dampens Sri Lanka's boom
Postwar Sri Lanka has seen 17 per cent growth, but the grip President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family have on the economy is seen by many as holding the country back.
Elizabeth Knight
Rinehart might influence people but she's winning few friends in doing so
Elizabeth Knight Nerves are frayed around the Fairfax board table. The quest to find a compromise with the company's largest shareholder, Gina Rinehart, is both testing and unconventional.
Taxman seeking people skills
Jane Lee Debt collectors at the Tax Office will be trained with better negotiation skills.
Economy
Retail sales slip after solid start to 2013
Glenda Kwek Retail sales have fallen in March after a strong start to the year, led by falls in clothing, footwear and personal accessories, sustaining expectations the Reserve Bank could lower the cash rate...
This Carnegie is influencing brands, winning over people
Elizabeth Knight There are no apparent bumps, bruises nor a hair out of place on the impeccably coiffed head of Maile Carnegie - the 42-year-old chief executive of Procter & Gamble's Australian operations.
Service makes people click
Natalie Puchalski Customer service is emerging as a significant factor in determining the success of online retailers.
Jessica Brown, Oliver Marc Hartwich
A few home truths on people and houses
Jessica Brown, Oliver Marc Hartwich Numbers aside, we will still need more bricks and mortar, write Jessica Brown and Oliver Marc Hartwich.
MacroBusiness
Quarry Australia has no people
Cameron Murray The idea that some workers are substitutes for some others, but all workers are not substitutable, may be one reason for the apparent failure of stimulus to ''create'' jobs in the US.
