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Don Meij admitted that up to 2400 employees may have been underpaid.

Super fund questions Domino's

First Super has written to four fund managers that it invests members' money in questioning the Domino's business model after the recent Fairfax investigation into the pizza giant.

In the three months through January, sales dropped 0.4 per cent, the worst quarterly performance since 2013.

UK retail sales extend slide

The UK consumer finally appears to be cracking - potentially taking Britain's economic strength with it.

Coles, Woolworths & Officeworks

Millions thrown at supermarket price war

The changing of the guard at Wesfamers this week was all but overshadowed by a sharp fall in earnings from its prized supermarket business Coles, big losses from its UK hardware operation and the likely sale of both coal and the Officeworks chain.

Ross Garnaut says that nowhere in the developed world are solar and wind resources together so abundant as in the ...

Australia positioned to be renewable energy superpower

The old joke says the questions in economics exams don't change from year to year, but the answers do. Welcome to the economics of energy and climate change, which has changed a lot without many people noticing - including Malcolm Turnbull and his climate-change denying mates.

Former Queensland premier Anna Bligh in Melbourne on Friday. She will lead the Australian Bankers' Association from April.

Can Bligh win where bank bosses failed?

First Super has written to four fund managers that it invests members' money in questioning the Domino's business model after the recent Fairfax investigation into the pizza giant.

The profit season show rolls on.

Markets Live: ASX scores second strong week

A coordinated rally in big banks and miners helps the ASX record a second strong week of gains, despite some profit taking in Friday's session as reporting season reaches a crescendo.

ANZ Bank delivered first-quarter cash earnings of $2 billion.

ANZ profit soars to $2b as it reins in costs, bad debts

ANZ Banking Group chief Shayne Elliott says his overhaul of the business is starting to pay off, after a strong first quarter in which profits rebounded by nearly a third to $2 billion compared with a weak period last year.

Electorally, Clive Palmer's PUP is a shadow of its former self.

Palmer sues PM, Senator Cash for $10m each

Clive Palmer is suing Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Employment Minister Michaelia Cash for $10 million each over allegedly defamatory comments they made about the demise of Queensland Nickel.

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