Erik Pineda

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott would want Liberal MPs to take their job seriously and not entertain any hints that a post in the Parliament would only require half the effort and half the heart.

Giant telco Telstra Corporation introduced this week its fresh service offering called 'Everyday Connect', which the company said will provide flexibility to subscribers' shifting communication habits.

Australian lawmakers received hefty pay boosts prior to their six-week winter break, leaving them as among the best-paid politicians around the world.

Was the disclosure of an unconfirmed takeover offer necessary at all? David Jones believes so as it informed the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) Monday night that transparency was its utmost concern when it broke the news of an impending buyout that failed to materialise.

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 will continue to miss out the American market, at least for the moment, as a U.S. court affirmed its earlier decision to ban the sale of the tablet pending the conclusion of the patent infringements case brought up by Apple against its South Korean nemesis.

The world's largest salt water crocodile in captivity is in the Philippines, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, edging out the one being kept in Australia.

Apple scored significant legal wins last week but the start of the fresh week saw the firm lagging behind its fierce competitors, Google and Samsung, in terms of market dominance in the lucrative U.S. market.

Australia suffered its first combat death this year in war-torn Afghanistan as the Defence Department confirmed on Tuesday the demise of a veteran Digger, who was serving his seventh tour in the 10-year conflict.

Detained Aussie lawyer Melinda Taylor will be home soon as the International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed on Monday that its detained legal team in Zintan will be freed later tonight.

As the string of controversies rocking the national leadership of the beleaguered Health Services Union (HSU) migrated to the cyber world, national secretary Kathy Jackson maintained that she was a victim of 'dark forces' within the labour group.

Defying the moderate outlook for commodities in the current year, BHP Billiton confirmed last week that it has forged a $3-million deal with Copper Range Ltd for the transfer of the latter's existing and pending explorations in South Australia's Olympic Dam.

It looks like that for the moment, the Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the product of the close collaboration between Google and Samsung, will be limited to the estimated 6000 units that Google had distributed to developers last week, at least in the United States.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard firmly believes that 'common sense' among Australians will prevail in the end as her government officially ushered in yesterday fixed-price carbon tax, again renewing a fiery debate on the program's economic and social impacts.

Luxury department store David Jones has reportedly attracted the attention of a UK-based firm as company chair Robert Savage confirmed this afternoon the floating of an unsolicited takeover offer to one of Australia's oldest retail player.

A New Zealand High Court ruled on Friday that authorities who raided Megaupload owner Kim Dotcom's mansion earlier this year wielded deficient search warrants, stripping the whole operation conducted by NZ police teams and agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of any legal protection.

Julian Assange will remain under the protection of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London despite efforts by the British police to lure him out via an official summon sent to the beleaguered WikiLeaks founder.

ACT health officials said on Thursday that influenza cases in the capital have reached the same level as last year, confirming at the same time that swine flu or H1N1 is still very much around in Canberra.

Telstra Corporation, it appears, has to work further in beefing up its privacy protocols as regulators said on Friday that the giant telco breached Australia's Privacy Act when it inadvertently exposed last year thousands of customers' personal information.

Software makers are re-training their attention on what Apple has proven as a sure-fire way of earning the big bucks - put together a sexy gadget and have it powered by in-house operating system and maybe a few years after, you'll be on top of the world.

East Timor authorities would employ the expertise of an Australian expert to hopefully unearth more clues on the identities of the bones that were accidentally discovered by local construction workers in Dili, the tiny nation's capital.

Metcash reported on Thursday northbound results but behind the numbers were the wholesale grocer's shrinking income, which the company admitted had plunged by more than 62 per cent in the past 12 months leading to end of April 2012.

NBN Co flatly denied that Australia's $36-billion nationwide broadband roll out has hit a snag following reports that major contractors attached to the federal initiative were mulling possible pull outs from the project that has been plagued by numerous delays.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard urged the Senate today to pass the Rob Oakeshott bill, which the House of Representatives has approved Wednesday night, that would pave the way for the Australian government to implement offshore processing on refugees seeking protection in the country.

The Labor-led government wants to push ahead with the Malaysian people-swap deal while the Coalition insists on its proposal to establish offshore processing in Nauru, conflicting ideas that independent MP Rob Oakeshott says can be fused by his bill.

The interest rate cutbacks imposed by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) in the past two months seemed unable to convince Aussies to shop for new homes, bank executives said on Tuesday.

The competition between Qantas Airways and Virgin Australia further heats up as the latter unveiled today plans to secure more service routes to Europe via the code sharing arrangement the airline had earlier inked with Singapore Airlines.

Australian sprinter Daniel Batman died in a tragic car crash early Tuesday morning, according to reports by Northern Territory police officials.

U.S. authorities announced on Tuesday the arrest of 24 suspected hackers tagged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as responsible for the pilferage of credit cards and bank accounts information from Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) sees no reason for alarm amidst observations by some economists that the country's housing sector could witness the same meltdown that humbled the U.S. economy in 2008.