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Former AWB executive Trevor Flugge.

Former AWB Chairman banned for five years over oil-for-food scandal

BUSINESS
Jane Lee
41 mins ago

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Markets Live: ASX tops 5900 as mood lifts

Live
Jens Meyer
23 mins ago

Is home ownership everything it is cracked up to be?

Seven-point plan to fix housing affordability crisis

COMMENT
Scott Phillips

"We are convinced if we put downwards pressure on prices through supply, that's the best way we can solve it as a state ...

'Vicious circle': Sydney's property market hurting families

PROPERTY
Emily Cadman and Matthew Winkler

At the start of 2017, foreign investors, who already own a majority of Australian's financial corporations and miners, ...

Why you should stick with blue chips

MARKETS
Myriam Robin

Gary Banks, former head of the Productivity Commission, attacked a politician for daring to blame the failures of energy ...

Too many stuff-ups about to put economic reform into reverse

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Enrico Palermo, executive vice-president of The Spaceship Company, in front of the VSS Unity at the company's ...

'The new future': Meet the Australian engineer pioneering space tourism

BUSINESS
Patrick Hatch

Market Indices

Updated: April 10, 2017 - 3:15PM

Updated: April 10, 2017 - 3:01PM

Updated: April 8, 2017 - 7:15AM

Updated: April 8, 2017 - 2:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7488

Percentage up/down

-0.13% fall
Euro

Price

0.7075

Percentage up/down

0.07% rise
British Pound

Price

0.6049

Percentage up/down

-0.17% fall

Updated: April 10, 2017 - 3:10PM

Gary Banks, former head of the Productivity Commission, attacked a politician for daring to blame the failures of energy ...

Too many stuff-ups about to put economic reform into reverse

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

The ratio of debt to disposable incomes is far higher among those with mortgages.

Why we need to worry about the level of household debt

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

The big question for employers is where to draw the line on employee behaviour.

When do an employee's private actions cross the line?

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Ore with 62 per cent content in Qingdao has fallen more than 20 per cent since its February 21 peak and is now ...

Wild ructions in commodities fail to worry investors

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Why fundies struggle to beat the index

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Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: Uncertain times

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Cyclone Debbie will have a lingering impact on coal pricing.

Cyclone Debbie coal disruption set to ease

Brian Robins

Millennials and Modi reasons to invest in India

Vanessa Desloires

'Disgusting': Ex-Barclays trader tweets rather than testifies at trial

Jeremy Hodges and Suzi Ring

Aussie dollar drops to three-month low as iron ore price plunges

Timothy Moore

Wall St dips, $A drops below US75¢

Jeremy Herron and Dani Burger

Protesters from Stop Adani Sydney gathered outside Westpac's 200th birthday celebrations in Sydney on Saturday night.

Anti-Adani mine protesters disrupt Westpac's birthday party

Lucy Battersby

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Court backs Macquarie in contentious UK bank deal

Dasha Afanasieva

"There was no reason not to pay out," says Nicholas Bishop, who had been diagnosed with a serious lung condition and ...

Cherry picking or opportunism: insurer tricks take their toll

INVESTIGATION
Mario Christodoulou

Tax incentives for property investors need to be examined as part of efforts to bring heat out of the housing market: ...

Tax breaks need to be examined to cool housing market: Bligh

EXCLUSIVE
Georgia Wilkins

"The power of the crowd will shake and stir", said ASIC chief Greg Medcraft.

ASIC still sees 'appalling things' at Aussie banks

Mario Christodoulou

Whatever you do, don't gripe. Even if you're totally justified, it will just sound like sour grapes.

15 sentences an interviewer doesn't want to hear

Áine Cain

Anna Green, a partner at the Boston Consulting Group

Colleagues shocked at promotion at eight months pregnant

Anna Patty

Top IT professionals can get multiple job offers, giving them bargaining power for their wages.

The jobs that will give you the biggest pay rise

Anna Patty

"There was no reason not to pay out," says Nicholas Bishop, who had been diagnosed with a serious lung condition and ...

Cherry picking or opportunism: insurer tricks take their toll

INVESTIGATION
Mario Christodoulou

A government inquiry pushed by Treasurer Scott Morrison is examining work-related tax deductions.

$22b cost of tax deductions to be tackled in budget

EXCLUSIVE
Nassim Khadem

First Super chief executive Bill Watson says a review of its private equity portfolio could result in the winding up of ...

Private equity put on notice over wage concerns

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Computer hacker stealing data from a laptop concept for network security, identity theft and computer crime Brazil has ...

'I can't believe I got sucked in:' How Jason fell victim to online scammers

EXCLUSIVE
Lucy Cormack

The competition watchdog has launched a Federal Court case against Apple for forcing customers to use its own expensive ...

Damaging your phone, accidentally on purpose

Phyllis Korkki

NSW Fair Trading is warning consumers not to deal with unlicensed builder Sam Robinson.

‘Every time he had an excuse’: Unlicensed builder up to old tricks

Esther Han

Tarocash wants some cash

Guys love to shop, and want bargains: retail veteran

Madeleine Heffernan

After failing to get British backing, Stevan Premutico returned to Australia.

From coffee shop napkin to mixing with world's great chefs

Mark Hawthorne

reject shop

The Reject Shop shares plummet on profit warning

German superstore chain Kaufland: What led to its decision to chose Melbourne over Sydney for its Australian headquarters?

Taxpayers in dark over promises to German retail giant

Madeleine Heffernan

Former JB Hi-Fi boss Terry Smart will take the reins at The Good Guys later this month.

Former JB Hi-Fi boss takes reins at Good Guys

Catie Low

Sydney's hot property is forcing people to move further away from the city, extending commute times.

'Vicious circle': Sydney's property market hurting families

Emily Cadman and Matthew Winkler

Jobs numbers this week could make life tougher for the RBA.

Why the RBA will be sweating on this week's jobs data

Patrick Commins

The former boss of Australia's spy agencies David Irvine has been appointed to head up the federal government's watchdog ...

Former spy boss to head foreign investment board

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre.

Australia has $1 trillion foreign debt. Should we be worried?

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

The stench of the Guinean payments scandal is still haunting Rio Tinto.

Australia could be 'left behind': Rio calls for tax cut

Brian Robins

Cyclone Debbie will have a lingering impact on coal pricing.

Cyclone Debbie coal disruption set to ease

Brian Robins

Go faster? A new poll suggests more wind and solar power is wanted, sooner.

Coalition supporters back quicker renewables shift: poll

Adam Morton

Frank Lowy said the retail behemoth next year expected to start a 1200-apartment project at Stratford in London.

Westfield eyes 1500 apartments in US, UK next year

Carolyn Cummins

Australia Post believes it can offer Amazon a range of delivery options once it opens in Australia.

Australia Post will reach out to help Amazon

Carolyn Cummins

Most large-scale leasing has been on the western side of Melbourne.

Transport companies driving industrial growth

Simon Johanson

Regulators are accusing Google of short-changing female employees who do similar work to men.

Google accused of underpaying female workers

AP

Stylianos Contogoulas, a former Barclays Plc Libor trader, is seen arriving at Southwark Crown Court to faces charges in ...

'Disgusting': Ex-Barclays trader tweets rather than testifies at trial

Jeremy Hodges and Suzi Ring

William "Billy" Walters leaves Manhattan federal court in New York, Friday, April 7, 2017, after he was convicted of ...

'Lost the biggest bet': Gambling king convicted of insider trading

Colin Moynihan and Liz Moyer

Mother nature poses a very real threat to your beloved vehicle.

What people don't tell you about driving a supercar

Cars
Toby Hagon
31 mins ago

Model Tess Holliday (second from left) and others in the Modcloth #effyourbeautystandards
campaign

How my partner changed my mind about overweight people

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Mortgage rates are on the rise and borrowers don't want to get in above their heads

How to avoid squeeze of rising mortgage rates

John Collett

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

The $300m GST grab hardly anyone knows about

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Ian and Leanne Neeland faced opposition from the local council when they first tried to build the Yarra Valley ...

How one couple risked everything for their chocolate dream

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Rachel Power, owner of the Waterfalls Cafe & Gallery, gets a feeling of "utter sickness" when she reads a negative review.

'You hold your breath waiting for it to load': Dealing with review sites

Christine D'Mello

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