Sharon Olalia

Three successful multimillion-dollar farm industry research programs were axed yesterday by the Gillard Government.

National Australia Bank (ASX:NAB) has been granted by Bank Indonesia, the Central Bank of Indonesia, a licence to establish a representative office in the country.

CSR has announced a restructure of its Viridian Glass business that will cause about 110 redundancies, in a bid to lift profits.

Tech savvy Aussies are turning to mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and other internet enabled devices to help make their next property choice, new research shows.

Demand for fixed interest rate home loans increased by less than 1 percent of approvals over August despite lenders offering large reductions to the cost of their fixed term loans, according to one of Australia’s largest independently-owned mortgage broker.

Odyssey Space Research has sent two iPhone 4's to the International Space Station after modifying them to meet NASA flight certification standards, the company says.

The National Broadband Network rolled out in Thursday Townsville, the first location in Queensland to gain access to the high-speed broadband service.

The Victorian government will slash the subsidy paid to households for electricity fed into the grid from rooftop solar panels by more than half.

Leighton Holdings faces a class action from investors who allege the construction giant breached continuous disclosure laws.

The Australian government on Thursday announced a pension increase that would benefit the 3.4 million elderly population in the country.

As Google’s Android platform beats Apple’s iOS, group buying site Scoopon has last launched its own Android app which is proving to be very popular in the Android Market’s lifestyle section.

Thousands of Australians have gathered at Port Adelaide to protest against live animal exports.

Westpac is aiming to lend $1 billion to Australian businesses by the end of September through its Business Boost campaign announced on Wednesday.

Australia’s plantation estate in 2010 was marginally less than in 2009 but substantially more than five and 10 years ago, according to Australian plantation statistics 2011.

The High Court today handed down its judgment on the Federal Government's arrangement to send asylum seekers to Malaysia.

More than 25 per cent of Aussie dads use Facebook to keep track of their social networking kids, with one in four admitting visiting their kid’s pages is their favourite thing to do on Facebook, reveals a new Telstra research.

The availability of rental homes in Melbourne continues to improve, the July rental vacancy rates from the Real Estate Institute of Victoria shows.

Salmonids, predominantly consisting of trout and Atlantic salmon, have surpassed rock lobster as Australia’s highest earning fisheries product.

Apple has hired Nicholas Allegra aka “comex”, the 19 year old hacker famous for his one-click iPhone jailbreak site JailBreakMe, which makes removing the restrictions on Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices as simple as clicking a link.

The Australian Coal Association (ACA) on Tuesday has questioned the results of the Grattan Institute research on the impact of the proposed carbon tax on the coal, LNG and steel industries.

The Public Service Association will launch a “Lost DPI Dollars” campaign in Orange tomorrow to fight against job cuts at the Department of Primary Industries in regional centres, including Orange.

The Australian Steel Institute (ASI), the peak industry body representing the entire Australian steel supply chain, reiterated it is not proposing any form of mandates or other protectionism measures, but is calling for a more coordinated approach to assessing major project proposals more strongly linked to Australian Industry Participation (AIP) policies.

A 62-year old man with mesothelioma, a rare cancer caused by inhaling asbestos, has been awarded $1.15 million in compensation by a Victorian Supreme Court jury.

Australia’s home building approvals saw its first rise in four months, albeit still below economist forecasts.

Debit cards are set to be the most commonly used payment method, surpassing cash and credit cards, if younger generations have anything to do with it.

The NSW Aboriginal Land Council has expressed disappointment at Qantas Airways after the Australian airline awarded prizes to two men for dressing up in “Blackface” at the Bledisloe Cup over the weekend.

Australian Coal Association boss Ralph Hillman is retiring end of August 2011. Hillman was appointed as Executive Director of the ACA in August 2007

The Australian Bankers Association is endorsing statements by the Reserve Bank governor that the Australian economy is in a good position to weather heightened global uncertainty, partly due to solid, safe and healthy banks.

A milestone research project involving 30,000 Australians is being launched at Cancer Council Victoria today to provide hope to those with rare cancers. The Forgotten Cancers Project is the first epidemiological-based research project in the world focusing on less common cancers.