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Australia's housing boom underpinned Harvey Norman's earnings bonanza so don't expect its billionaire founder to tell you the party might be ending any time soon.

Gerry Harvey got Harvey Norman into the booming resource party, ramping up productions of its dongas, just as the bust loomed on the horizon.

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The stunning multi-billion-euro tax decision against Apple could hit Australian companies like our controversial former asbestos maker, James Hardie.

One year ago, the surfer dudes who founded SurfStitch, sold a small stake in the surfwear retailer for $27 million - for a few million more they could now buy back what remains.

It has not been a great year for shareholders in Yellow Brick Road, and executive chairman and reality TV star Mark Bouris acknowledges he too is disappointed in its latest results.

Glencore boss Ivan Glasenberg has more reason to feel humble despite the commodities trader recovering from last year's near-death experience.

'Golden era of travel' is grounding Flight Centre earnings and the boss Graham Turner is feeling the financial pain - sort of.

China's demand for Blackmores' vitamin products helped the company more than double net profit to more than $100 million.

After a disastrous first year as a listed entity this probably was not the time for dairy group Murray Goulburn to reveal its directors got a massive pay hike last year.

It isn't every day you see a $9 billion company suspended from trading because it couldn't cough up its annual $56,750 ASX listing fee.

One of Britain's most respected investors, Neil Woodford, has scrapped staff bonuses at his investment group.

Noni B's controlling shareholders – the Babcock & Brown boys Phil Green and Trevor Loewensohn – still know how to cut a deal.

Melbourne businessman Mark Rowsthorn has had to come to terms with the fact he has lost all of the $100 million cash he invested in McAleese. Now he wants other investors to do the same.

The gambling maxim "the house always wins" is not an immutable law, as Tatts chairman Harry Boon knows all too well.

John Cleese may have qualms about the billionaire's way to make a buck, but Packer is laughing all the way to the bank thanks to $264 million worth of Crown dividends this year.

Bill Morrow doesn't need gunship diplomacy to fund the NBN, he's got a yacht.

Ansell's stock was aroused after the condom maker made a coy proposition to the financial markets.

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Ex-Kleenmaid director Bradley Wendell Young acted with "callous disregard", a court heard before he received what may be the longest jail sentence ever handed to a company director in Australia.

Some people might be wondering what has happened to the most controversial betting brand that Australia has ever produced, Tom Waterhouse. The answer is, things have not been going well.

A big protest vote against Louis Gries' pay has overshadowed a moment in Australian corporate history that is worth noting.

Suncorp has been continually smashed by freak weather, so why did its CEO say "there's clear evidence there's climate change" but "the extent of influence by humans is still difficult to quantify"?

Amal Clooney has set herself the unenviable task of trying to upstage two of Australia's biggest rock star CEOs.

The good news is Telstra's chronic network problems are not behind the woes being experienced by Seven's digital streaming of the Rio Olympics.

The Big Four have struggled to explain why they stiffed mortgage holders last week and failed to pass on most of the RBA's rate cut. Is it time to get out Westpac's banana blender again?

Thursday's announcement by competition czar Rod Sims would have been hot news on the golf links in Portugal.

It sounds like the words "you're fired" have been ringing out in the offices of Celebrity Apprentice star Mark Bouris.

The bitter brawl which tore apart the most important relationship in Australia's tourism industry is finally over.

Seven's off air talent are flying out to the Rio Olympics with more than the scream of jet engines.

There is none of Funke Kupper's penchant for drums, casinos and poker machines on Dominic Stevens' CV.