Merge or fold: Super fund administrator sounds warning to small funds

The chief executive of Mercer, one of Australia's biggest super fund administrators, has urged small funds to merge with bigger funds or risk folding in the next 12 months.

$1bn clean-up bill for Werribee's radioactive 'zombie' cows

• EXCLUSIVE

Sixty radioactive cow carcasses are buried beneath land in Werribee that the Andrews government is trying to sell to a Chinese consortium keen to build a $20-billion dollar education precinct.

Meet the boss: Health chief Gerard Fogarty

Gerard Fogarty knew early on that school wasn't his forte, but it took him quite a while to realise that the Australian Defence Force was.

Women to bear the brunt of cuts to penalty rates

Single mother Sharon Eurlings has worked Sunday shifts for more than 20 years to help pay the bills and get care for her children.

Camilla kaftan lover charged after posing as security guard

A woman posing as a security guard has been charged with shoplifting from a Camilla warehouse sale.

Clive Palmer's nephew Clive Mensink returning from trip in economy class

Clive Palmer's nephew has been on luxury cruises, visited famous US cities and started a European tour with his new girlfriend, but he has been ordered to end his travels with an economy flight home to face court.

International traders look to Australia for their next big short

It's not surprising international traders have arrived to bet on stocks headed for a fall, with one predicting Westpac's share price could halve.

Dow continues record run as Wall St edges higher

* Goldman weighs on Dow after analyst downgrade

Asia's trawler fishing wars reach Australia

Drone footage showing hundreds of dead sharks fished by Chinese company Pingtan Marine Enterprise off the coast of East Timor is the latest example of a modern war on the high seas that is fast intruding into Australia's neighbourhood.

Engineer is now Google's no.1 enemy

In 2013, Anthony Levandowski was the star of Google's self-driving car project. The tall, swaggering engineer was featured in a long New Yorker story about the search engine willing the impossible technology into reality.

Cecil the Lion outrage has killed the trophy hunting industry

Wildlife prices are tumbling in South Africa, as game breeders are squeezed by restrictions imposed on trophy hunting following the killing of Cecil the lion in 2015.

Murray Goulburn discloses losses, ASIC and ACCC investigations

The downturn in the dairy industry has taken its toll on the country's largest milk processor, Murray Goulburn Co-Operative.

Penalty kick: farewell to Sunday, the day of rest

Double-time has run out for the traditional day of rest.

Meet the King of the KitKats

It doesn't take long to appreciate that Magdi Batato has one of the biggest private sector jobs in the world.

'Grand champions' of currency manipulation: Trump slams China

President Donald Trump declared China the "grand champions" of currency manipulation on Thursday, just hours after his new Treasury secretary pledged a more methodical approach to analysing Beijing's foreign exchange practices.

Certified painter 'did not even know what lead paint was'

Australia's peak body for the painting industry has expressed concerns for tradespeople who have been issued qualifications to handle toxic materials without the requisite training.

Pink it and shrink it? Sports equipment catches up with women's success

"I didn't even realise that was such a problem for these young girls."

Reserve Bank chief Lowe overrules his staff on rate cuts

Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe has no plans to cut interest rates, and worries that he did he would make an already indebted nation "more fragile".

Pyrrhic victory for employers

• COMMENT

Australia's economy is held back because wages are too low, not too high.

ASX ends lower on tumbling metal prices

The Australian sharemarket finished the week lower, despite a positive week of earnings season largely welcomed by investors.

Investors pushing business to avoid a carbon-bubble bust

• IN DEPTH

Ask a senior banker about the big financial risks that keep them up at night, and climate change probably won't be one of them.

Meeting that stops our nation, and our miners

• ANALYSIS

It's the event in November that stops the nation - literally. Not that horse race, but China's leadership struggle ahead of November's national congress

Big retailers to push through new deals after penalty rate decision

Australia's biggest retailers are expected to seize on the landmark cut to Sunday penalty rates to push forward new wage deals covering hundreds of thousands of workers.

Data breach notification laws sharpen security focus

Australians now have some comfort they will at least be notified if there's a massive leak of online personal data and many companies are expected to ramp up cyber security after federal parliament passed mandatory breach reporting laws.

Domino's admits 'screw up' on marketing fund

Fast food giant Domino's Pizza is being probed by the consumer regulator after it was caught out in potentially in breach of laws designed to protect its own store owners.

Bitcoin worth more than gold as price reaches all-time high

Industry heads cite global factors for surge; see the currency reaching $US2000 by the end of the year.

Forget banks, your health insurance is a rip-off

The utter gall of NIB in boasting about ripping off the public makes the banks look nice.

Bellamy's flags 18-month turnaround as earnings fall short

Troubled infant formula milk group Bellamy's Australia has signalled it will take 18 months to turn the group around, reporting a slide in profit for the December half.

Bill shock for landlords as land tax skyrockets

Landlords have been hit by steep land tax increases from soaring property values, in some cases more than doubling tax bills and making investments uneconomic.