The Australian livestock industry may get a reprieve from the financial debacle posed by the six-month-cattle ban to Indonesia by tapping into the $5-million contingency fund of the Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA), said Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig.
An ash cloud from a Chilean volcano has expanded to cover all of Tasmania and parts of southern Victoria overnight.
Liberty Financial has followed other non-bank lenders in removing DEFs and changing its broker commission structure.
The RBA has decided to keep the official cash rate at 4.75% for the sixth month in a row.
The average weekly rent in Australia is $450; over a year that’s $23,400. But a good tenant goes beyond what they’re paying in rent. You also want someone that will take care of the property, respect the neighbours and rent long-term. Even though the national vacancy rate is a relatively tight 2.2% - good tenants can be hard to come by.
The Australian housing market has a bright future, and Gen Ys will be the ones to lead it there, a social demographer has claimed.
Property investors seizing opportunities in the current buyers' market has contributed to an 18.8% increase in mortgage sales during May.
Nestlé has launched a new addition to its Kit Kat range, the Kit Kat Chunky3, which features the brand's signature wafer, topped with three breakable chunks containing three separate textures - fudge, crisp and sauce.
According to scientists at the University of Adelaide, a potential life-saving treatment for severe E. coli food poisoning outbreaks was pioneered more than a decade ago, but hasn't gone forward into clinical trials because of lack of commercial interest.
- Emeco's earnings update slightly disappointing- Planned increase in capex an offsetting positive- Brokers sees value given expectations of solid earnings growthBy Chris ShawResource equipment hire group Emeco Holdings ((EHL)) plans to accelerate growth in FY12, management yesterday announcing...
Some 66,000 Australian Institute of Company Directors members and clients had their information stolen after a computer was stolen with their personal information stored inside.
On June 9, the U.S. Supreme Court, by unanimous decision, upheld a $290 million jury verdict against Microsoft for willfully infringing a patent of a small Canadian firm. The case can be depicted as a classic David vs. Goliath or can be a plot to a John Grisham novel. However, what's more significant -- in the area of intellectual property law -- is that the Supreme Court has settled the issue of whether a lower standard can be used to invalidate patents.
US claims for unemployment insurance (jobless claims) rose by 1,000 to 427,000 in the latest week.
Leighton Holdings Ltd. expects to incur a significant financial loss on its Airport Link Project in Brisbane. The construction company originally expected to report a profit of $407 million for the project, but has revised the outlook to a pre-tax loss of $430 million.
Leighton now says it is pursuing compensation where possible to recover ad
Hewlett Packard, hoping to tap into a market dominated by Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet, announced Thursday that the Wi-Fi version of HP TouchPad will be available next month.
An Australian mechanical designer has finally made the dreams of every Star Wars fan come true: he's built a real life Hoverbike. Chris Malloy, an Australian mechanical designer has been building the Hoverbike in his garage for the past two and half years and now it's ready to go to production.
There is now no stopping the Australian government from implementing the economy-wide carbon tax that aims to lower greenhouse emissions. The Gillard administration even got the support of independent MP Tony Windsor after the Productivity Commission report.
At the World Wide Developers Conference, Apple announced that iOS5 will have some 200 features but only ten of them were named at the event. The two-hour affair focused mainly on iCloud and OS X 10.7 “Lion”. However, there are other iOS5 updates to look forward to.
The plunging stock market value of Nintendo this week caught the Japanese game console maker by surprise, which came following the Tuesday launch of its next-generation Wii U.
Exco shareholders gave their go signal on Friday for the $175 million deal that will formally transfer ownership of the company’s Queensland mining assets to Xstrata.
The Westpac Group (ASX: WBC) has confirmed it was initiating a token replacement program, as a result of the recent RSA security issue.
Customers the world over have been left wondering whether to trust RSA's security tokens since March 2011, when the company admitted it had been hacked and issued a warning.
The lines are constantly being blurred between what constitutes the workplace and what constitutes a 'social event.'
Interest rate hikes are increasingly likely to send Australian homeowners into default, Fitch Ratings has claimed.
Ongoing discount interest rate home loans have become the top choice for majority or about 33 percent of new borrowers, according to May 2011 data from Australia’s largest independently owned mortgage broker, Mortgage Choice.
Google came out with its new '+1" button. This is Google's newest foray into the social scene, although they claim this is yet the social network to rival Facebook. The +1 button is a small icon that will become featured in searches done on Google. The idea is that when you see a search result you like, you will +1 it, thus telling others in your Google social group that you like the result.
Almost two-thirds of Australian companies indicate they would consider hiring overseas staff to overcome skills shortages.
Woolworths Limited has announced plans to roll out contactless payment facilities across all its brands.
Employees have been found to be the primary driving factor of L&D practices, rather than overall business strategy, according to the 2011 National Learning and Development Index.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson today announced a five-year initiative to provide free Wi-Fi service at 26 locations in 20 New York City parks across the five boroughs. Starting today, AT&T Wi-Fi is available free of charge to any users at Battery Bosque in Battery Park, the north-end playground in Joyce Kilmer Park in the Bronx, and around the recreation center at Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem, with 23 additional park locations to follow throughout...
Drift is a bad thing in economic policy and in an economy generally, it can indicate a lack of momentum, an absence of strong policy making, or an economy that just won't answer the helm.
