Budget to cut company taxes

Company tax cuts will be Treasurer Scott Morrison's priority in the federal budget, forcing salary earners to wait years for lower taxes.

Australia and Indonesia might turn to top chefs and the spice trade to break the ice on a new trade deal.

The Senate was on track early on Friday morning to pass laws reforming the Senate voting system.

Exporters from universities to tourism operators face a period of acute pain caused by the rebounding dollar.

The introduction of new laws to limit the misuse of market power by big business will live or die on who wins the federal election.

Mortgages rates will follow recent hikes in business lending rates, as soon as next month

Former Labor MP faces a reprimand but no other penalty over a 2012 speech in which he was accused of deliberately misleading parliament.

The RBA has warned dividends have risen much faster than earnings and the ratio of dividends to earnings is at record levels.

A Sydney insurance broker won six months' payout after being sacked for having up to 17 drinks on the company credit card.

Lawyers have dismissed Labor's competition law proposal but they are split on the Turnbull government's "effects test".

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