'Extreme risk' in $89b Navy ships plan

Taxpayers are paying billions of dollars more and face further blowouts because of the "high to extreme" level of risk in building new ships and submarines.

Pressure mounts on Andy Penn

Telstra chief executive Andy Penn is under growing pressure to more aggressively tackle a squeeze on earnings.

Shell urges industry to 'leave corporate comfort zone'

Shell's most senior representative in Australia is set to issue a challenge to oil and gas industry leaders across the country to leave behind their "comfort zones" and take up the debate about the contribution the industry makes to the economy and the broader population.

Brookfield trumps BGH bid for Healthscope

The scene is set for a showdown at hospital group Healthscope as shareholders welcomed Brookfield Asset Management storming into the takeover battle with a higher $4.35 billion rival tilt.

ICOs the domain of charlatans, swindlers

Let's call initial coin offering's utopian rhetoric for what it is: self-serving nonsense meant to separate credulous investors from their hard-earned savings.

Evans Dixon shares gain on ASX debut

Evans Dixon did not hire an investment bank to manage the sale of its shares, which was made exclusively to clients and a so-called "chairman's list" of individuals and institutions.

Opinion

Labor leader Bill Shorten has accused Pauline Hanson of backing a $17 billion reward for the banks, as he kicked off his ...

Shorten, Hanson lock horns over Longman

Labor leader Bill Shorten has accused Pauline Hanson of backing a $17 billion reward for the banks, as he kicked off his bid to hold the marginal Queensland seat of Longman.

Personal Finance

It's all a game really.

Tax experts critical of budget tax offsets

Peter Costello has joined growing criticism of complex and inefficient low and middle-income tax offsets in the federal budget, despite acknowledging the benefit to hard-pressed taxpayers.