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Top mandarins score pay rises of up to $17000-a-year
Nation's top public servant now earning nearly $880,000.
Nation's top public servant now earning nearly $880,000.
With Australian companies more expensive than regional peers, it makes less sense for global investors to sink money into the ASX.
Domino's Pizza is more than $800 million overvalued and will not meet its ambitious growth targets because it needs to share more profit with store owners, investment bank Citi says.
The country's five biggest banks are embroiled in a new tax brawl, after SA's government infuriated banks by imposing a new levy.
Attempts to impose major restrictions on an $11 billion merger of gaming giants Tabcorp and Tatts on the grounds it may diminish bidding for wagering licenses have been quashed by the competition tribunal.
Another crash and burn of Tax Office's internet systems with just nine days until tax time.
Hopes gas will play the role of a so-called transition fuel towards a low-carbon future are dimming as costs of renewable energy dive and its emissions edge over coal is increasingly questioned, a new report by the Climate Action Tracker argues.
Shares rebounded strongly from Wednesday's thrashing, while late news of a state-based bank tax undercut solid bank gains.
The smallest players may not have to pay the NBN Regional Broadband Scheme levy at all until mid-2023.
Australia is shedding jobs for retailers and farmers by the tens of thousands as we become a country of carers and builders.
Shares post decent gains for the day, rebounding from yesterday's outsized losses, but news of a state bank levy was a dampener.
The stand out listings traded on the ASX captured at key moments through the day, as indicated by the time stamp in the video.
Crown's network of offices from Macau to Indonesia appears to have vanished, leaving the business model of its flagship Sydney resort in question.
For nine weeks hundreds of families in a small north-east Victorian town have been without a pay check, after the area's biggest employer locked out its entire workforce in April.
Cabcharge is one step closer to aquiring Yellow Cabs in Queensland after the nation's consumer watchdog announced it would not oppose the move.
The NSW opposition leader Luke Foley has been caught out promising a policy that the Berejiklian government has already begun.
Bank of England admits it is not entirely clear why workers are not getting pay rises.
Sorry, millennials, you need not apply. You're not wanted.
Why an increasing number of companies like Facebook and BuzzFeed are producing their own online videos.
A new study has stripped the health halo from coconut oil.
Despite Travis Kalanick’s resignation, there are plenty of businesses who’ve continued to grow after losing their founder CEO.
With oil prices falling and inflation out this week in the US, inflation expectations are clearly dominating market debate. This video was produced in commercial partnership between Fairfax Media and IG Markets).
Psychopaths may have some advantage in climbing the corporate ladder, but once at the top they do shareholders no favours.
Our migration success story has provided rich rewards for our economy and reinvigorated our culture. Michael Pascoe comments.
As if investors didn't have enough to fret about, the threat of a disorderly fall in the price of the world's most important commodity is spooking markets.
This podcast will draw on Fairfax Media's crack team of economics experts to help you get a better understanding of the things that affect your job, your mortgage and your family budget.
There are also concerns about the impact of a change of succession in Saudi Arabia on the oil market, David Pollard reports.
Disruptive investors are targeting Australian companies, shaking up a corporate culture that has long favoured quiet backroom deals over
Fuel supplier Caltex Australia says it expects underlying half-yearly net profit to rise as much as 22 per cent as it benefits from higher refiner margins and bigger volumes of premium diesel sales.
Overlearning the lesson of Steve Jobs' first fall at Apple - and of founder-led hypersuccesses at Google and Facebook - Silicon Valley's investors created a culture where founders are given carte blanche.
Meet two young engineers striving to free up hospital beds.
The rhetoric around Amazon is small businesses should be trembling in their boots. John Winning, CEO of Appliances Online, isn't buying it. He says it is business as usual for the company.
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