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Dell Australia and New Zealand managing director Angela Fox.

Whinge, complain, leave - the bad ride for women in IT

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Helen Pitt
1 hr ago

John Mcgrath

Sydney property market in 'severe disequilibrium'

PROPERTY
Carolyn Cummins

Dock workers went on strike in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Fremantle.

'Best deal in decades' for dockers

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Nick Toscano
1 hr ago

There was broad-based buying on the Australian Securities Exchange on Wednesday.

Miners boost ASX, Fortescue at 5-year high

MARKETS
Jessica Sier
47 mins ago

Webjet chief executive John Guscic revealed 40 per cent growth in B2B bookings on last year.

Chinese business travellers put a rocket up Webjet

AVIATION
Patrick Hatch

Constructive plan: Donald Trump promises "a bold, visionary plan for a cost-effective system of roads, bridges, tunnels, ...

Why bets on a Trump boom are tempting fate

ANALYSIS
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

McGrath Estate Agents boss and major shareholder John McGrath.

McGrath chair Cass O'Connor champions housing affordability

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD
25 mins ago

Market Indices

Updated: November 23, 2016 - 4:35PM

Updated: November 23, 2016 - 6:00PM

Updated: November 23, 2016 - 9:15AM

Updated: November 23, 2016 - 4:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7440

Percentage up/down

0.50% rise
Euro

Price

0.6996

Percentage up/down

0.45% rise
British Pound

Price

0.5999

Percentage up/down

0.60% rise

Updated: November 23, 2016 - 5:46PM

Crossbench senators Nick Xenophon and Derryn Hinch reveal details of the whistleblower law.

Australia's brave whistleblowers deserve compensation

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Hamish Douglass of Magellan waited a long time for his restricted stock to convert into ordinary shares, but it was ...

$220m share bonanza for Magellan co-founder

Colin Kruger, CBD

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison continue to claim that a corporate tax cut, phased in over ...

Infrastructure opportunity knocked – Canberra wasn't home

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Wall St inched to further heights overnight.

Markets Live: Fortescue hits 5-year high

Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
1 hr ago

The outlook for the big bank stocks is improving.

Blue chips back in favour

Jessica Sier

Wall Street dropped on firming prospects for a December rate hike.

8@eight: Bulls take full control of the market

Sponsored
Chris Weston

Brent for January settlement declined 43 cents, or 0.9 per cent, to $US48.47 a barrel in London. The contract touched ...

Oil lower as Iran, Iraq resist output limits

Mark Shenk

ASX joins global rally as miners regain mojo

Vanessa Desloires

Markets Live: Party like it's 1999

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer

Five economic game changers for 2017

Vanessa Desloires

Currency vigilantes set their sights on Italy

Jessica Sier

Professor Paul Kofman, dean of business and economics at the University of Melbourne.

Banks need 'overhaul' not CEO pledges: finance expert

Georgia Wilkins

Financing must change dramatically if emissions are to be curbed.

Banks' climate change talk not yet matched by action

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

CBA blamed changes in funding markets and the low interest rate world for its cuts to term deposit rates.

Savers hit as CBA cuts term deposit rates

Clancy Yeates

Chief executive of Westpac's consumer bank, George Frazis, says the lender is seeing few signs of stress in the ...

Westpac hoses down apartment glut fears

Clancy Yeates

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Bondnado: Australia's $220 billion debt party is over

ANALYSIS
Clancy Yeates

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 18: Portrait of UNSW Industrial Design Student Greta Saggus with her prototype that ...

'A little bit too hard for women': How Greta went to top of the class

Kim Arlington

Ashley McKinnon who has struggled with a lack of transport to get to job interviews.

Limited transport is a big barrier to young people getting jobs

Anna Patty

From November, workers have been barred from logging more than 65 hours of overtime a month, down from the previous ...

Suicide prompts ad agency to review 'work to death' principle

Shane Heal has been charged with three counts of fraud.

Basketball stars caught up in Shane Heal alleged fraud

Sarah Danckert

Simon Crowe, Founder of Grill d.

Grill'd in court: inside a big-league bun fight

Mark Hawthorne

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Bondnado: Australia's $220 billion debt party is over

ANALYSIS
Clancy Yeates

Cycle Surgery bicycle mechanic Simon Spoors in his workshop with broken bikes and parts. Some bikes aren't worth fixing, ...

Is it safe to buy a second-hand bicycle?

Katie Burgess

Canberra father Richard Stanton pictured riding his bike six weeks before he died. The coroner found he was killed when ...

How a bike ride turned to tragedy for a Canberra dad

Katie Burgess

Shoppers are forking out for Christmas presents in a way not seen since before the Global Financial Crisis in 2008.

The 12 things you definitely don't want for Christmas

Victoria Ticha

Down at heel, Payless Shoes in administration.

Payless shoes adds to pre-Christmas jobs rout

Catie Low

A2 Milk chief executive Geoff Babidge: "The opportunity in a variety of segments in adult nutrition could potentially ...

A2 to milk wellness trend with adult nutrition products

Catie Low

Nudie was last year taken over Philippines-based food company Monde Nissin Corporation.

How the founders of Nudie went sour with lies and tax evasion

Nassim Khadem

About 1000 staff work in Pumpkin Patch's network of 117 stores in Australia, and about 600 in its 43 New Zealand outlets.

1600 Pumpkin Patch jobs to go by February as fire sale begins

Catie Low

At least 381 people were killed when Rana Plaza collapsed.

Which retailers are on Oxfam's 'naughty' list this Christmas?

Madeleine Heffernan

Things are pretty great ... as long as this is where you work.

Feeling okay? That could be because you're in the Sydney-Melbourne bubble

COMMENT
Peter Martin
12 mins ago

There's light at the end of the tunnel, BHP's latest production numbers show.

Five years after the boom, battle rages over mining wages

Jonathan Barrett and Aaron Bunch

Thumbs up from the President-elect: Donald Trump's election to the White House has turbocharged metal prices.

Why bets on a Trump mining boom are tempting fate

ANALYSIS
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Small business confidence is on the up in Canberra

Small businesses optimistic despite red tape, skills shortages

Emily Baker

Donald Trump admirer and venture capitalist Peter Thiel has funded a fusion start-up to pursue the ultimate dream of ...

Trump insider is betting on a futuristic solution to climate change

Eric Roston

There's light at the end of the tunnel, BHP's latest production numbers show.

Five years after the boom, battle rages over mining wages

Jonathan Barrett and Aaron Bunch

Thumbs up from the President-elect: Donald Trump's election to the White House has turbocharged metal prices.

Why bets on a Trump mining boom are tempting fate

ANALYSIS
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Former Wallaby Bill Young during a 2004 Bledisloe Cup match: "I am very pleased with the purchase."

Former Wallaby adds Five Dock Hotel to pub empire

Carolyn Cummins

Large format retailers want planning laws reviewed in NSW

It's a matter of planning, say large format retailers

Carolyn Cummins

Better collaboration with customers, colleagues and co-workers is now the key reason for implementing workplace strategy

Co-working spaces are the new office model

Stuart Brown

Setting out his plans: Donald Trump.

I'll quit TPP on day one as president: Donald Trump

From November, workers have been barred from logging more than 65 hours of overtime a month, down from the previous ...

Suicide prompts review of 'work to death' principle

If Snap can pull it off, co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy would become the youngest people on the Bloomberg ...

Snap IPO to test unicorn founder fortunes worth $42b

Tom Metcalf

Hipsters before it was even hip, The Rolling Stones even invented the awkward lean.

Original hipsters: Is this the most stylish rock band of all time?

Culture
41 mins ago

The GLC Coupe is ready for all terrain.

Our love affair with the SUV rolls on with this new high rider

Cars

Pam Graudenz, resident of a retirement village and vice president and village liaison officer from the Retirement ...

Buying into a retirement village? Beware these traps

John Collett

Pensioners have incentives to hoard cash

Jenny Brockis is a brain specialist.

Exhausted? Three tips to fire up your brain

Alexandra Cain

Trov on-demand insurance app

Millennial-aimed insurance startup moves to UK market

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