Convenience store giant 7-Eleven has been called on by the Fair Work Ombudsman to admit its business model contributed to an environment that encouraged wage fraud and illegal work conditions across its franchise network.
Unless the regulator is better resourced, penalties increased and its powers broadened to include criminal conduct and the power to compel witnesses, little will change.
Australia's coal sector is increasingly dominated by small entrepreneurial miners, leaving governments and communities scrambling to adjust.
US stocks edged higher as a surge in crude that boosted energy shares offset a slump in biotechnology shares.
Oil climbed the most in almost two months as US crude output continued to slide before a meeting between suppliers to discuss freezing production.
Banks have hit back at Labor's proposed inquiry into the financial sector's behaviour.
The competition regulator will investigate whether merger substantially reduced competition in the online food ordering market.
The social network is working to combat a decline in people sharing original, personal content, the fuel that helps power its money machine.
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​The yen retreated broadly on Friday after posting gains this week, weighed by warnings overnight from Japan's finance minister of possible intervention.
Copper prices stabilised in London on Friday, but still staged their biggest weekly loss since January on concerns future demand.
Australian shares lost ground over the week as concerns over the global economy prompted a wave of broad-based selling and investors continued to dump the big banks.
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The common response to what the tax would mean to home owners is as predictable as politicians' unwillingness to address it.
The Australian Labor Party has pledged to set up a royal commission into the finance sector if it wins office.
As the big bank culture wars rage, investors are focused instead on the banks' generous payouts.
Legislation aimed at ensuring Clive Palmer does not walk away from any environmental clean ups at his Townsville refinery have created tension between the state government and the mining and resource sector.
Copper prices stabilised in London on Friday, but still staged their biggest weekly loss since January on concerns future demand.
​A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off from Florida on a cargo run for the International Space Station has achieved a dramatic spaceflight first.
A former senior executive at Reserve Bank subsidiary Securency has been accused of inventing accusations against a former regional manager and other senior executives to escape jail for his own corrupt behaviour.
Hundreds of residents left homeless after a storm ripped off the roof of their Lidcombe apartment block have suffered another blow, with their insurer rejecting their multi-million dollar claim.
'Spoilt Australia' lagging behind third world countries as eight African countries get one up on us.
Sydneysiders looking to shelter them from the unseasonal heat could well find it in the shadow of one of the record number of cranes across towering over the city's skylines.
By this time next week, pending last minute hiccups, the destiny of the listed Investa Office Fund (IOF) will have been decided.
Industrial landlord Goodman Group has completed stage one of the Goodman Business Park in Chiba New Town in Greater Tokyo.
The Ascendas-Singbridge Group has bought 100 Arthur Street in North Sydney, known as Innovation Place.
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One in three parents believe their children are unlikely to enjoy the same standard of living as them, a major survey suggests.
The idea of helping your kids to succeed in life is strongly ingrained in Australians.
Three Perth mums reveal how they cleverly make social media work for them to realise their business dreams.
Family business sacks the owner's brother after he failed drug tests and wins an unfair dismissal claim.
The head of Australia's corporate watchdog has responded to complaints from Financial Systems Inquiry chair David Murray that ASIC attempts to regulate company culture were comparable to those used by Adolf Hitler.
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