Business Day

News Corp and Telstra have confirmed they will merge Fox Sports and Foxtel.

A Foxtel float could test the credibility of everyone involved

COMMENT
John McDuling

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

McBain's Primary Opinion faces $10m heartburn from Maggie Beer stake

BUSINESS
Colin Kruger, CBD

Homelessness is crying out for a bipartisan approach.

One man is walking the walk to the sensible centre

COMMENT & ANALYSIS
Harold Mitchell

"This is really ground breaking," Andrew Forrest said. "This is the beginning of the end of modern slavery."

Forrest declares beginning of end of modern slavery

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Anna Patty

School cleaner Judith Barber from Macksville on the NSW mid-north coast: Her profession can be more dangerous than ...

Cleaning can be more dangerous than construction work - analysis

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Anna Patty

Mortgage Choice predicts banks will meet the 30 per cent cap on new interest-only lending by the end of next month.

Crackdown on interest-only loans tipped to ease

BANKING AND FINANCE
Clancy Yeates

David Jones' total sales grew 1 per cent to $2.2 billion.

David Jones blames belt-tightening as shoppers steer clear

RETAIL
Patrick Hatch

Market Indices

Updated: August 24, 2017 - 4:42PM

Updated: August 24, 2017 - 6:09PM

Updated: August 25, 2017 - 5:48AM

Updated: August 25, 2017 - 2:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7901

Percentage up/down

-0.08% fall
Euro

Price

0.6695

Percentage up/down

-0.01% fall
British Pound

Price

0.6171

Percentage up/down

-0.08% fall

Updated: August 25, 2017 - 6:00AM

News Corp and Telstra have confirmed they will merge Fox Sports and Foxtel.

A Foxtel float could test the credibility of everyone involved

COMMENT
John McDuling

Homelessness is crying out for a bipartisan approach.

One man is walking the walk to the sensible centre

Harold Mitchell

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

McBain's faces $10m heartburn from Maggie Beer stake

Colin Kruger, CBD

Aluminium production cuts are part of the central government's campaign to eliminate industrial overcapacity, curb ...

China's speculators are swarming all over aluminium

Profits results will drive the ASX today.

Markets Live: Miners do it again

Patrick Commins and Sarah Turner

Apple plans to release three new iPhones next month, reports have said.

New iPhone gives company $5.2 billion boost - but it's not Apple

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: ASX set for positive start on busy reporting day

Sponsored
John Kicklighter

ASX drops as investors punish IAG

Patrick Commins

Markets Live: Profit misses sink ASX

Patrick Commins and Sarah Turner

8@eight: Bulls back in charge

Sponsored
Chris Weston

ASX snaps three-day losing streak

Patrick Commins

Chief executive and managing director Geoff Lloyd said the big increase in Perpetual Private's profit was the result of ...

Perpetual lifts dividend after big profit increase from wealth advisory

John Collett

The typical chief executive of an ASX100 company was paid $3.78 million in 2016.

Raking it in: Australia's top 10 paid CEOs

Clancy Yeates

Last Thursday, AUSTRAC launched civil proceedings against CBA for allegedly failing to report 53,700 suspicious ...

CBA's breathtaking tactics bring on class action

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

IAG chief executive Peter Harmer saw profits climb by almost half.

Motor claim costs to squeeze IAG margins

Clancy Yeates

IAG chief executive Peter Harmer saw profits climb by almost half.

IAG shares drop as insurer sees tougher times ahead

Clancy Yeates

Domino's delivery driver Casey Salt is paid significantly less than the minimum pay of the award.

Pizza delivery driver takes on Domino's over outstanding millions

EXCLUSIVE
Ben Schneiders

A 15-hour work week sounds too good to be true.

Why we should strive to work 15 hours a week

Andrew Taylor

Julia Gilchrist was born deaf and had to apply for 200 jobs before she landed a stable job with long-term prospects.

Better listening can reduce economic cost of hearing impairment

Anna Patty

Illustration: Simon Bosch

End of the line: Telstra's day of reckoning has arrived

John McDuling

Illustration: Simon Bosch.

'It's two or three years of cock-ups': Has time run out for CBA?

Clancy Yeates

Austrac alleges nearly $9 billion in cash was deposited through CBA's new ATMs before it conducted any assessment of the ...

How drug syndicates 'laundered' millions via CommBank

Michael Evans

Scientists warn that the use of antibiotics to promote growth in chickens contributes to the rise of dangerous, ...

McDonald's cuts antibiotics in chickens to fight superbugs

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Why Olimpia purchased $1800 in iTunes vouchers to pay for her NBN

Lucy Cormack

Cost of living expenses are placing pressure on Australian consumers, with electricity, health and food expenses topping ...

Financially, Australians are worried about pretty much everything

Lucy Cormack

David Jones' total sales grew 1 per cent to $2.2 billion.

David Jones blames belt-tightening as shoppers steer clear

Patrick Hatch

In 2016, the Fair Work Commission quashed an agreement between Coles and the SDA as it failed the "better off overall test".

Woolworths concede workers could be worse off from 'shoppies' deal

Ben Schneiders

Flight Centre chief executive Graham Turner has good news for investors, not so good news for travellers.

Cheap airfares are about to end, Flight Centre says

Patrick Hatch

Stationery has become a corporate battleground.

Office politics: watchdog flags concern at stationery bid

Carol Saffer

Troubled online sports retailer Surfstitch has called in administrators.

Online sports retailer calls in administrators

Patrick Hatch

Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth all recorded higher home values for the week ending August 13.

Home sales and prices pick up pace

Uschi Schreiber is EYs global vice-chair of markets and will be in Melbourne in late November as a speaker at the C2 ...

Here's one way to get more women promoted

Nassim Khadem

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis.

Hope yet for economy despite dark days

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Airbnb landlord Lynne Segal said the home-sharing website helps her afford to stay in her Newtown terrace.

Housing affordability: Is Airbnb to blame?

Andrew Taylor

The Turnbull government wants states to sign up to a national agreement on energy policy.

Industry fears 40 per cent renewable energy target will push up power prices

Adam Carey

South32 CEO Graham Kerr said the miner had delivered a ''significant improvement'' in its financial performance in ...

Profit surges, dividends up, South32 lifts share buyback by $US250 million

Darren Gray

Australia is the world's second-largest exporter of LNG.

Australians are now paying 'desperation price' for gas

Mathew Dunckley

Scentre, which owns 59 Westfield shopping centres across Australia and New Zealand, is preparing for Amazon's push into ...

Westfield malls look to lifestyle, food to fend off Amazon

Carolyn Cummins

Founder John McGrath and chief executive Cameron Judson are battling low listing volumes.

Low real estate listings, sales whack McGrath earnings

Carolyn Cummins

347 Kent Street, Sydney, where ANZ currently leases, could be refurbished to drive future performance, Investa Office's ...

Strong leasing market boosts Investa Office

Carolyn Cummins

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates gets a daily news digest with a wide array of topics, and he gets alerts for stories on ...

From washing dishes to playing tennis: how Bill Gates spends his day

Aime Cain

Eva Echeverria started using J&J's talc powder products when she was 11. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007.

Johnson and Johnson ordered to pay $525m to cancer sufferer

Margaret Cronin Fisk and Edvard Pettersson

A white supremacist gives a Nazi salute in Charlottesville.

'Minding its own business': Tiki torches tries to move on from Charlottesville

Zach Schonbrun

UFC star Conor McGregor has lost sight of his origins.

Face off: Why McGregor versus Mayweather is a total sham

Culture

Give way: a cyclist waits at an intersection.

Five cycling-related rules all road users should understand

If your boss asks you to "take care of something", communicate about how you plan to tackle it.

How to manage your boss

Catherine Robson

Illustration: Simon Letch

How tax deductions for investment work

Noel Whittaker

Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan has raised concerns about Labor's plan to tax trusts.

'Going to be hard': Doubt cast on Labor's plan to tax trusts

Cara Waters

Women crowded by manspreading is an international problem.

The worst people on public transport

COMMENT
James Adonis

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