May 17
Investing
18 May 2017 |
SMH
The world
's richest people lost $US35 billion ($47 billion) when global equity markets were rocked overnight by political turmoil in the US, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
29 May 2017 |
AFR
As a parliamentary inquiry into life insurance continues to hear shocking misconduct revelations and NAB became embroiled in a new scandal at the weekend, the banks' mouthpiece, the Australian Bankers' Association, has been interviewing agencies as they consider a new campaign.
18 May 2017 |
AFR
Fairfa
x Media has received a competing bid from global private equity firm Hellman & Friedman valuing the publisher at up to $2.87 billion.
From global private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, the bid is for a range of $1.225 to $1.25 per share, compared with the TPG consortium proposal of $1.20.
15 May 2017 |
Domain
While sa
ving for a home requires cutbacks on luxuries, which is something you’re no doubt sick of hearing, it’s definitely okay – and important even – to have at least one thing you indulge in. Life is short after all, so it must be enjoyed!
15 May 2017 |
Guardian Australia
BHP Billi
ton, the world’s biggest miner is rebranding, changing its name back to just BHP from this week.
The company is rolling out a $10m advertising campaign that includes television ads and a new slogan, “Think Big”, to facilitate the change.
11 May 2017 |
The Guardian
The F
airfax Media chief executive, Greg Hywood, was paid as much as $7.2m in 2016 – substantially more than the $2.74m reported by the company in its last executive pay rundown.
08 May 2017 |
Guardian Australia
Fairfax Media has confir
med private equity company TPG Capital has made an unsolicited approach to buy its three key metro newspapers and online real estate arm Domain.
The US-based firm has put forward a proposal to buy the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and the Australian Financial Review, along with Domain, in a deal estimated to be worth about $2.5bn.
04 May 2017 |
ABC
The company
had around 1,000 editorial staff in 2011. After the latest round of redundancies announced on Wednesday, which will cut 125 jobs, roughly only 375 editorial staff will remain.
News
29 May 2017 |
ABC
I c
an't really put my finger on the precise moment I embraced my own male mediocrity. It was more a dawning realisation.
Be it striding confidently onto stage to deliver a lecture with minimal preparation, having the sheer audacity to think I can pull off live TV or radio, or even sharing my thoughts with you here, its warm embrace is always with me.
25 May 2017 |
The Age
The 
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet paid $1.3 million through recruitment firms to the company at the centre of what is allegedly one of the largest tax frauds in Australian history, a Senate estimates committee has heard.
18 May 2017 |
AFR
Micha
el Cranston's illustrious 35-year career at the Trax Office suffered a major blow when he learned his son had been arrested over his involvement in one of the country's biggest white-collar crimes.
08 May 2017 |
The Australian
Acc
used drug-smuggler Cassie Sainsbury’s lawyers are asking Australian taxpayers to help pay for her legal costs as she faces charges in Colombia.
02 May 2017 |
The Age
Prime Mi
nister Malcolm Turnbull has declared he will "bring the school funding wars to an end" in a stunning policy turnaround that will see the federal government pump an extra $19 billion into schools over the next decade.
Economics
29 May 2017 |
Kelly Hughes, Charlotte Lemmon, Lexi Denison, Ainslie Couper
The Fair Work Commission, with the support of the Turnbull government, has made a hallmark decision to cut penalty and Sunday pay rates.
This decision affects those working across the retail, hospitality, fast food and pharmacy sectors and is expected to hit hundreds of thousands of low earning Australians.
18 May 2017 |
SMH
Australi
a's unemployment rate fell to 5.7 per cent in April, official figures show, beating expectations of a flat rate of 5.9 per cent.
The total number of people with jobs rose by 37,400 in the month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday.
17 May 2017 |
The Australian
Australi
an politics is now a race to the bottom of the economic canyon.
Bill Shorten’s budget reply speech tonight crystallised the dangerous new political reality in Australia.
17 May 2017 |
SMH
Real 
wage growth has fallen into negative territory and stalled at an all-time low, figures to be released on Wednesday are expected to show, as workers receive pay rises that have failed to keep up with the cost of living.
11 May 2017 |
SMH
Labor will
put higher education at the centre of its response to this year's budget by announcing it will oppose all the government's major university changes, including the proposed rise in fees and slashing of the HECS repayment threshold.
09 May 2017 |
Kelly Hughes
OVER
VIEW:
WINNERS:
- The Medicare levy will be increased, with the revenue to fund a $22 billion National Disability Scheme.
- First home buyers will be able to use voluntary contributions to their superannuation to save for housing, as well as a new restriction on foreign property owners.
09 May 2017 |
ABC
WINNERS:
The National Disability Insurance Scheme has been fully funded. The fund to pay for it will be topped up with additional money generated from the increase in the Medicare Levy. Over the forward estimates, $9.1 billion will be paid into the special account.
02 May 2017 |
AFR
Recor
d numbers of Australian households face mortgage stress as large loans and rising interest rates start to bite, according to detailed analysis of lending, repayments and household incomes.
01 May 2017 |
Guardian Australia
After sc
andals in the 1990s exposed shocking labour conditions in its supply chain, these days jeans brand Levi’s wears a commitment to ethical sourcing that you’d think would save it from protestors. But not so.
Portfolio
01 May 2017 |
SMH
Fou
r Australians who tracked their spending for an experiment have each identified hundreds of dollars a month they can save by cutting back on small purchases.