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House values have tumbled at the start of the year with Sydney values down by 1.4 per cent while in Melbourne they dropped by 1.7 per cent
Housing Slump

Melbourne and Sydney lead downturn in national property market

The nation's property market has started the year in freefall with big drops in almost every capital city

  • by Shane Wright
Healthscope chairman Paula Dwyer and chief executive Gordon Ballantyne.
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Healthcare

Healthscope accepts $4.4 billion takeover offer from Brookfield

  • by Colin Kruger
In this combo of file photos, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks on the new Apple campus on Sept. 12, 2017, in Cupertino, Calif., left, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference on April 12, 2016, in San Francisco, right. On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, Cook said his company wouldn’t be in the situation that Facebook finds itself in because it doesn’t sell ads based on customer data like Facebook does. Zuckerberg responded in a podcast on Monday, April 2, saying that the idea that Facebook doesn’t care about its customers is “extremely glib.” (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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Apple

It's Apple versus Facebook in a battle for the soul of tech

  • by John McDuling
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Labor franking shake-up plan could spark buybacks, special dividends

  • by Clancy Yeates
BHP chief executive officer Andrew Mackenzie says the Australian Constitution "should be amended so that the voices of Indigenous Australians can be fully heard".
Mining

'Watershed': BHP, Rio urge constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians

  • by Darren Gray, Fergus Hunter & Hamish Hastie
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A pro-Brexit demonstrator holds a 'Just Leave' sign outside the House of Parliament in London on Tuesday. The tables have turned in favour of the UK.
Opinion
Brexit Chaos

'Prepare for the worst': The tables have turned in the Brexit brawl

Europe's leaders will now have to decide whether they are going to push their demands to the point of absurdity.

  • by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
House values have tumbled at the start of the year with Sydney values down by 1.4 per cent while in Melbourne they dropped by 1.7 per cent
Housing Slump

Melbourne and Sydney lead downturn in national property market

The nation's property market has started the year in freefall with big drops in almost every capital city

  • by Shane Wright
Pilbara Minerals Pilgangoora lithium mine.
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Lithium

Planning to develop a strategy: Road map to charge up lithium battery sector revealed

  • by Hamish Hastie
Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte .
Italy

Italian Prime Minister may have just let slip that the economy is in recession

  • by Alessandra Migliaccio & Lorenzo Totaro
Sharyn Maskell says she no longer eats lamb as often as she once did.
Shopping

Lamb dinners face chop as drought pushes up prices

  • by Sumeyya Ilanbey
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Markets

An electronic board displays stock information at the Australian Securities Exchange, operated by ASX Ltd., in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. Global equity?markets are in retreat after Wall Street losses that began in the final session of last week worsened on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average posting its biggest intraday point drop in history. Photgrapher: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg
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8@eight

8@eight: ASX headed for a positive start into February

  • by Kyle Rodda
Sharemarket

Wall Street gains, S&P 500 heads for best month since 2015

  • by Noel Randewich
Sharemarket

ASX in late retreat as banks slide

  • by Sarah Turner & Vesna Poljak

Companies

Former Victorian premier John Brumby.
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National security

Brumby quits Huawei board days after US criminal charges outlined

  • by Richard Baker & Nick McKenzie
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Healthcare

Healthscope accepts $4.4 billion takeover offer from Brookfield

  • by Colin Kruger
Retail

Amazon hits record $4.1b in profit - not good enough for Wall Street

  • by Rachel Siegel

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Small business

Music played in shopping centres, venues and workplaces is subject to copyright payments facilitated by APRA.
Opinion
Small business

A law unto themselves: Shadow regulators must be reviewed

These not-for-profit groups deserve more scrutiny.

  • by Peter Strong
Ian Campbell is the founder of Jump! Swim Schools.
Franchising

Swim school franchise Jump! faces wind-up challenge

Troubled swim school franchise Jump! is facing a court application to be wound up as franchisees continue to come forward with grievances. 

  • by Cara Waters
The Pokitmeter tool and app.
Startups

From lab to boardroom: How Australian inventors become founders

  • by Emma Koehn
Customers are increasingly keen to split their payments, says new ASX-listed Israeli startup Splitit.
Startups

Instalment payments here to stay: Splitit chief

  • by Emma Koehn
Clare Hu owned multiple cafes across Melbourne.
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Entrepreneur

Melbourne cafe queen ripping off workers and trading while insolvent

  • by Cara Waters

Consumer affairs

EnergyAustralia's managing director Cath Tanna says this charter will put power back into the hands of consumers.
Energy

Energy companies launch industry charter to win back consumers' trust

  • by Cole Latimer
Opinion
Consumer affairs

At first I was irate. Then the red-light fine changed something in me

  • by Meredith Williams
Scams

Netflix customers urged to be vigilant as 'high quality' email scam circulates

  • by Jenny Noyes

Workplace

Jonathan Meddings, a policy analyst at Thorne Harbour Health.
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Do You Earn Enough?

'A lot of hard work and late nights': Why Jonathan is the future of work in Australia

  • by Anthony Colangelo & Craig Butt
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Careers

Education risks going stale without a serving of versatility

  • by Jim Bright
Careers

Looking for advice? Just ask me

  • by Jonathan Rivett

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