Top publicly listed companies that employ more women on their boards make more money, a new study shows, boosting the case for regulations that require big business to set policies to increase gender diversity.
Partly based on newspaper articles about the economy published by the AFR and others, a central bank index appears to line up with negative economic outcomes.
Rio Tinto's Bell Bay aluminium smelter could face closure if it loses any more supply in Tasmania's electricity crisis.
Negotiations for a trade deal with India are bogged down by Indian government concerns about imports and losing money from lower tariffs.
Politicians are too quick to release modelling that confirms their own prejudices.
The government has been warned by Peter Costellp not to touch superannuation and capital gains tax concessions and to leave the rules on negative gearing alone.
Tully fruit grower Cynthia Sabag and her husband Pius doesn't want to hear about Queensland government's plans to re-introduce tough anti-tree clearing jobs.
Employers added more workers in February than projected but average hourly earnings dropped by 0.1 per cent from the prior month.
There are sound in-principle arguments in favour of cutting company taxes. The trouble is, hardly anyone wants to listen to them.
The huge drag on investment, growth and jobs caused by 4½ years of falling commodity prices may be starting to ease, says one of the nation'...
ECB president Mario Draghi's "whatever it takes" spell to save the euro appears to have fizzled.
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