Fines of up to $4.5 million, 10 years jail for corrupt payments to unions

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Employers and union officials now face up to ten years' jail and companies will be fined as much as $4.5 million if they give or receive secret payments designed to corrupt a union official.

Markets Live: Harvey Norman shares slide

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• 26 mins ago

Shares dip led down by Harvey Norman's biggest slide in more than five years, while the Aussie dollar nudges higher.

A hundred more jobs to go at Bureau of Statistics

• 45 mins ago

Up to 100 more public servants to be axed at troubled agency.

Record wheat output to fuel GDP

• 1 hr ago

A record wheat crop is expected to add half a percent to Australia's economic growth this year.

Recievers launch legal action against Dick Smith directors, ex-CEO

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The receivers of collapsed electronics chain Dick Smith have launched legal action against eight directors and executives.

Hard hitting equal pay ad

• Federal Politics
• 1 hr ago

A new advert shows what happens when boys are given more pocket money than girls for doing the same chores. Courtesy ANZ.

Fletcher Building shares slide as boom-time labour shortage hits

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Shares in New Zealand's biggest listed construction company fell 12 per cent after it cut its earnings guidance.

'It holds us all back': Senior Reserve official slams 'dismally male' profession

Australia's starkly sex-segregated workforce will remain that way for at least another decade, as young men and women defy expectations and increasingly self-select into traditionally gendered fields of study.

Underemployment skyrockets to 1.1 million Australians

Australia has one of the highest levels of part-time work anywhere in the OECD.

Zegna learns hard way about Australian farming

When Italian luxury label Ermenegildo Zegna purchased a stake in the historic Achill Farm located in Armidale, northern New South Wales, no-one could have guessed how hard the subsequent three years would be.

ASIC warns on housing bubble, cyber threats

The head of Australia's corporate watchdog has again sounded the alarm over Sydney and Melbourne's housing markets, saying they're in the midst of a price bubble.

G20 a ScoMo fizzer

Not only are the chances of freer global trade receding, the danger is that existing freedoms will be lost. Michael Pascoe comments.

'The last time I buy online': Ben's dream barbecue turns into a nightmare

• EXCLUSIVE

This year alone the ACCC has received more than 1000 reports of online shopping scams worth more than $150,000.

Secretive billionaire reveals how he toppled Apple in China

Duan Yongping is convinced Tim Cook didn't have a clue who he was when they first met a couple years ago. The Apple boss probably does now.

Scott Morrison's Monty Python moment

• COMMENT

It's a dangerous thing to talk a big game before taking the field. Treasurer Scott Morrison did that pre-departure for the weekend G20 finance ministers meeting in Germany. He's been left trying to claim a big loss was actually a win. Monty Python's dismembered Black Knight comes to mind.

8@eight: Waiting for direction

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The Australian market is set to open lower this morning on the back of a soft Wall Street lead, with a growing belief that the Trump rally is running out of steam.

Scathing new ad attacks banks

• Federal Politics

Industry Super Australia has taken aim at the banks over lobbying, likening them to foxes on the hunt, in a new TV commercial. Courtesy Industry Super Australia

G20: Fears over free trade as US blocks protectionism ban

The G20 financial leaders dropped a decade-long commitment to free trade yesterday after opposition from the US, raising fears the Trump administration could upset the global economic order.

Foxes in the hen house. Chilling new ad takes on banks

Australia's industry super funds have launched an unprecedented advertising campaign.

Someone has to give if we're to fix the budget

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The nation's budget problem still won't be solved when, one day in the distant future, we get the federal budget back into surplus. Only a change in strategy is likely to produce a sustained solution.

Packer calls in $100m loan to Crown

Casino tycoon James Packer has an extra $100 million in his wallet after calling in a loan to his Crown Resorts empire.

'Headless chook' Brandis accused of pressuring inquiry

The man in charge of the Productivity Commission's inquiry into access to justice has criticised Attorney-General George Brandis for attempting to influence the outcome of the review. 

Australia's post-G20 trade threat

The G20 statement confirming a US-led tide of protectionism may puncture investor complacency around the risks of a global trade war.

Hall might be focused on different kind of wilderness after Hunter Hall exit

Peter Hall's messy departure from Hunter Hall - the ethical fund he founded - is now complete. But he might just be focused on a different sort of wilderness.

Chemical crisis spreads to nation's airports

Canberra Airport and the federal government stuck in a tense stand-off.

Doves may cry as nine US Fed members take stage

The ASX is set for a cautious start, with plenty of potential for investors to rethink their interpretation of last week's US rate hike as nine Fed members speak, including chair Janet Yellen.

Meet the new Monopoly tokens: a rubber ducky, a T-rex and a penguin

Say goodbye to the thimble, the boot and the wheelbarrow, Monopoly fans. There are new tokens in town.

Energy company offers to make all jobs flexible

David Provan does his full-time job which is based in Sydney from his home in Melbourne.

Value capture isn't all it's cracked up to be - Grattan Institute

"Value-capture", promoted by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as a way of getting the private sector to stump up for government infrastructure has almost never lived up to its promise, a new analysis by the Grattan Institute finds.