ASIC executives are quizzed over its decision to investigate Cash Converters' lending practices to online customers but not those who sought loans in store, during a Senate estimates committee hearing today.
The Department of Human Services was within its rights to release the personal details of a blogger who criticised Centrelink's debt recovery scheme, the department secretary tells Senate Estimates.
Journalists frequently refer to freedom of information investigations in news stories, but not many people realise anyone can learn to use the legislation successfully.
The corporate regulator says it has been investigating up to 11 lenders over their home lending practices, after announcing court action against Westpac.
The Fair Work Commission should implement Sunday penalty rate cuts gradually so it coincides with base wage increases and minimises the impact on workers' take-home pay, the Prime Minister says.
Lockheed Martin's chief executive dismisses concerns raised by the Pentagon that Australia's new fighter jets will not be fully combat ready by 2020, when the Australian Air Force is due to take delivery of its first jets.
Fast-food businesses will no longer be able to bring in foreign workers on 457 visas, in order to make young Australians the priority, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says.
Labor interrupts Question Time as Opposition Leader Bill Shorten tries to push through a bill to stop the cuts to Sunday penalty rates from coming into effect. Follow live.
A horse trail riding business owner who says he is being "forced out of the forest" is the latest casualty in a battle between the logging industry and environmentalists.
Unions and employer groups are at odds over how quickly changes to penalty rates should be introduced as the Commission calls for submissions over how the pay cuts should be implemented.
Amnesty International says a decision by the Federal Government on information-sharing protocols between the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and foreign authorities could allow a repeat of the Bali Nine drug smuggling case.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is taking Westpac to Federal Court in a landmark case over its responsible lending practices, but as Stephen Long writes, it is far from the only lender to face such allegations.
Donald Trump has pledged to pump tens of billions of dollars into his country's military spending — but how much does the US and the rest of the world really spend on defence?
A who's who of Australian rugby are among family and friends to pack Sydney University Oval's grandstand and surrounds to celebrate Vickerman's life and mourn his loss on Wednesday.
Prevention messages by universities are often directed at the victim and what she or he can do to avoid being raped, which may then deter reporting of the incident, writes Nicola Henry from La Trobe University.
Australia's players are delighted with the way they handled conditions in the first Test against India in Pune, but expect the home side to come back with a vengeance in Bangalore, David Warner says.
Reporting season ends with profits up 123 per cent on last year and 94 per cent of large companies in the black on the back of a commodities rebound and housing boom.
