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If we're to believe what we're told, Australia's apprenticeship system is in crisis, with plunging numbers following cuts in government support.

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The key to Qantas being able to better its 2017's "second-highest ever' result this year is in some respects out of its hands. Will passengers take to its plan to fly them to London nonstop?

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Consumer law advocates are pushing for real change.

Sorry, supermarkets: the e-commerce giant just confirmed that your worst nightmares are about to come true.

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More than $8.7 million in bonus payments boosts Ahmed Fahour's final Australia Post pay day.

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The proposed Maurice Blackburn/IMF Bentham class action against the Commonwealth Bank may not have nearly as much going for it as the highly publicised launch on Wednesday would have us believe.

Last Sunday morning as I finished exercising in the park I headed for a cafe in East Melbourne, right next to the MCG. The crowds were starting to arrive for the big game several hours later.

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If a Foxtel IPO happens, the stakes are high for Telstra, News Corp and the ASX.

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Two ambulance-chasing firms are inviting CBA shareholders to punch themselves in the head and pay the firms for the privilege.

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It is being pitched as the biggest shareholder class action in the country. Commonwealth Bank on one side, and Maurice Blackburn bankrolled by IMF on the other side. Why did CBA's board wait to inform shareholders about the Austrac investigation until the genie was out of the bottle?

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How do you solve a problem like Big W? There is certainly one school of thought that says it's time to cut and run.

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Woolworths was happy to reveal that Big W's losses increased tenfold last year, but the supermarket giant got shy when it came to the exit package of the short-lived Big W boss, Sally Macdonald.

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Activist shareholder Elliott Management will be emboldened to pursue other demands it thinks necessary for BHP to clean up its act.

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Oh the irony – the Murdochs wanting Australian media ownership laws changed has become the biggest hurdle to changing Australian media ownership laws.

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Fortescue's generosity to shareholders marks the final stage in its evolution from a highly speculative upstart to a mature company with reliable positive cash flow.

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Use metrics as a substitute for thought rather than as an aid to hard thinking and there's a high chance it'll bring you undone.

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The reality is that regulators are relying on banks with disparate systems to do their legwork while forever playing catch-up with the more organised criminals.

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Last year, for the first time in history, we reached the point where the handful of largest global firms were technology companies.

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So, the Australian Bureau of Statistics told us this week, the rate of unemployment fell a click to 5.6 per cent in July. Trouble is, most people know the official unemployment rate understates the extent of the problem.

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For the 1 million or so Australians who own Telstra shares, as well as its many customers, its new focus on financial engineering should be a wake-up call.

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With regulators and various state and federal governments breathing down the collective neck of the retirement village industry, it was little surprise that Aveo was in damage control when it released another record profit.

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There is good reason some of the smartest investors on Wall Street are betting on Netflix's decline. But they're missing one key factor.

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Everyone knows there's a big difference between banks' advertised mortgage rates and what they actually charge when nudged.

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There's been a sound economic justification – the need to restore our industries' international price competitiveness - for our weak wage growth over the past three or four years.

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When former treasurer Peter Costello decided to set up the Future Fund in 2004, he probably didn't envisage it investing in a wellness business run by a Hollywood celebrity, or a viral content site originally known for cat videos.

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There are many actors in the whole Google/diversity drama, but I'd say the one who's behaved the worst is the CEO, Sundar Pichai.

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Since we've all got so excited about the weak growth in wages, let me ask you a personal question: How much do you know about how wages are set?

Leaked emails reveal a powerful lobby group has ramped up its attempts to dilute a bill to protect workers from underpayment.

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One of Mark Zuckerberg's top lieutenants was in Sydney this week to launch a charm offensive on local media executives amid a global backlash against Facebook and Google.