We are not property of the state
It''s illegal for anyone to help us to die. That keeps our bodies ultimately under the control of governments.
US shares rise steadily as rate rise looms
The US sharemarket has shrugged off the threat of a looming rate rise and is just slightly more than 3 per cent below its all-time high reached in May.
Economies are too tough for IS to destroy
Terrorism has its own logic. It fosters fear far in excess of the danger that it presents.
Investors are paying too much for growth
Investors seem to be over-paying for stocks showing any sort of growth, while tossing aside companies that have got a decent long-term track record.
Orica's Alberto Calderon is surviving the end of mining's excess
In a commodities world being repriced by demand and supply shocks, the intent of new cheif executive Alberto Calderon's clarion was clear
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BHP has done right things in Brazil
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Signs encourage Spanish builder
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Beat IS with science and optimism
While the terrorist attacks on Paris are deplorable, what is needed now more than ever is an injection of optimism into Western sentiment. I...
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philip baker
Investors are paying too much for growth
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tony boyd
Commodities collapse will end
As the global commodity collapse enters its sixth year the bulls are seeing light at the end of the tunnel and the bears are more certain than ever that there is nothing ahead, but blackness.
phillip coorey
Back in Angela's good books
At the last G20 meeting Australia was left looking out of touch on climate and innovation. How things can change in a year.
greg earl
Australia, Indonesia 'partners, not competitors'
Business has been told to grab a new opportunity for joint ventures in Indonesia in industries such as textiles, logistics and animal products.
jennifer hewett
Signs encourage Spanish builder
The name Acciona is not well-known in Australia. Yet the Spanish company has been a key player in designing and building several of our key infrastructure and renewable energy projects – along with many more in the dozens of other countries in which it operates.
alan mitchell
Competition reform key to innovation
Reform Competition drives innovation, so a test of how serious Malcolm Turnbull is about innovation will be competition policy reform.
michael smith
Macquarie, QBE the pick of defensive stocks: Morgan Stanley
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matthew stevens
Orica's Alberto Calderon is surviving the end of mining's excess
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Poll will calm Coalition GST nerves
There were plenty of Coalition MPs acting like a shiver in search of a spine last week, nervous about the blowback from voters about the prospect of an increase in the goods and services tax.
tony walker
Keep friends close, enemy even closer
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