Rio Tinto criticized on Thursday the Australian government for its failure to deliver on carbon tax promises, which the Labour government agreed on with industry leaders.
In our December 2010 article (see issue 8.12), we discussed the activities of the Fair Work Ombudsman, the independent regulatory agency that investigates complaints involving suspected contraventions of the Fair Work Act 2009 and its predecessor, the Workplace Relations Act 1996, as well as breaches of awards and agreements.
Western Australia Auditor General Colin Murphy has found that agencies need to address potential conflicts of interests in the procurement of contracts for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects and the acceptance of gifts and travel at the Department of Health.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the pending sale of 66 F-16 aircrafts from the United States to Taiwan may sever the peaceful development of Sino-US and cross-Strait relations.
The Gillard government’s proposed carbon price from July next year poses limited impact on super funds overall, a new report released today shows.
China plans to adjust its procedures for selling weapons to other countries after news came last week that state-owned arms manufacturers were selling arms to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's government in July.
Driven by fears that its soaring yen may thwart its economic recovery following a destructive earthquake and tsunami in March, the Japanese government has played a hand in the currency market on August 4.
The alleged victim, Johnny Jean, and his mother, Rose Marie Jean, told Haitian radio stations he had been raped by Uruguayan marines and provided testimony to a judge in the southern town of Port-Salut, where the incident allegedly took place on July 28.
Beijing-COSCO Group, a giant state-owned conglomerate shipping company in China demands to small ship owners in dry bulk freight to reduce their rental costs.
Australia had a barrelling finish on the second quarter, thanks much on soaring economic activities fuelled by the mining sector, according to the latest report issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday.
Pippa Middleton has gained worldwide recognition for being the Duchess's younger sister, and to celebrate her birthday, here are some of Pippa's best moments.
Having one of the world's highest crime rates,South Africa has revealed plans to ban alcohol advertising in an attempt to curtail violence driven by excessive drinking, the health minister said.
Qantas Airways was not out of line on its existing arrangements with Jetconnect pilots employed by its New Zealand subsidiary, according to a decision reached late Tuesday by Fair Work Australia.
More good news will be generated by the resources industry but these could be drowned out by continuing pressures seen outside of Australia and the country’s strong dollar is not helping the domestic situation at all, these according to Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens.
While the global financial sector was talking about the threat of another banking crisis across Europe, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) released on Tuesday a discussion paper that said the regulator would put in place Basel III capital requirements two years ahead of the 2015 deadline.
Australian retailer Harvey Norman said on Tuesday that his business continued to survive despite the competition from offshore portals that do not charge Australia's goods and services tax and import duties on items costing less than $1,000.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key pledged on Wednesday some $250 million to boost education opportunities for poor Pacific Island children, the Herald Sun has reported.
NSW has approved a budget of $62.2 billion over the next four years to improve the infrastructure, the highest commitment in the history of the state.
There are a number of ways that a couple or a woman can have children, and artificial insemination has been a leading option for many.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have donated a Land Rover they received as a wedding gift to a rescue organization to improve the team's performance.
The Chinese government through its Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Jiang Yu has validated Libyan opposition spokesman Abdel Raham Busim’s statement that earlier this year, communist China accommodated Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in hope to purchase firearms and other high-caliber guns following the Libyan rebellion, reports said.
The NSW Government would punish all NSW households with a solar levy power price hike, while power companies continue to get cheap and often free solar power, the Australian Solar Energy Society (AuSES) warned today.
The NSW Government’s move to hike mining royalties would immediately hit Commonwealth infrastructure spending as well as plans to boost superannuation and cut company tax, the CFMEU Miners Union said today.
The federal government wanted it the easy way but Australians in general will have to pay the painful price for such monumental blunder, this according to banking stalwart Don Argus, who also warned on Monday that retreating local production, would in the long run hurt the economy.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s popularity drops to record low in an opinion survey released on Tuesday. The same Newspoll results happen to be the sixth in a row to show Opposition Leader Tony Abbott as preferred prime minister over Gillard. The latest poll results prompted Newspoll CEO Martin O'Shannessy to say Labor would lose as many as 40 seats if an election was held today.
The Reserve Bank of Australia retained the 4.75 percent interest on Tuesday. The bank's Monetary Board cited the volatility which hounds the world financial markets as the reason why it kept the rates which had been unchanged since November 2010.
Fears of internal inflationary pressures and redounding volatility of global markets prompted Australia's central bank to keep the country's cash rates at its current level of 4.75 percent for the ninth straight meeting on Tuesday. This is still the highest among developed nations across the globe trudging with the slow economic recovery.
Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop has contributed an interesting idea to the asylum seeker debate in the wake of Prime Minister Julia Gillard leaving for the Pacific Islands Forum. Ms Bishop has suggested that the PM should use this particular trip to explore the possibility of Nauru taking asylum seekers.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is recommending in a discussion paper that Australian banks must meet the Basel minimum capital requirements by January 2013, two year early.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il expressed his distrust in his country's number own trade partner and political ally China, in spite the support the latter has extended to the communist nation, reports said.
