05:55PM | The Australian Financial Review
| Key Liberals have raised fears of a leftist Labor-Greens government in an 11th-hour appeal for the support of the three undecided independent MPs who will this weekend decide the country's next government.
04:18PM | The Australian Financial Review
Australia's peak tourism industry group has warned whoever forms the next federal government to pay close attention to a growing "black hole" in Australia's tourism trade deficit.
04:16PM | The Australian Financial Review
Qantas Airways Ltd may be forced to pay back millions of dollars in commissions to travel agents after it failed in a bid to overturn a Federal Court ruling.
04:07PM | The Australian Financial Review
Where are they now? A decade later, what became of the big names from the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
03:52PM | The Australian Financial Review
It's no surprise many Sydneysiders still get misty-eyed about having a functioning public transport system for almost three weeks.
03:43PM | The Australian Financial Review
Actor Paul Hogan has been given permission to leave Australia after a travel ban placed on him by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) was lifted, his lawyers say.
03:31PM | The Australian Financial Review
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally has decided not to replace former cabinet minister Paul McLeay.
01:49PM | The Australian Financial Review
The peak body for Australia's clean-energy sector has rallied behind independent MPs' push to put renewables on the agenda of the next federal government.
01:47PM | Lucy Gao | The Australian Financial Review
Land acquisitions almost quadrupled in Shanghai in August as real estate developers expanded their land banks in a slightly less overheated market.
12:35PM | The Australian Financial Review
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally says she will announce on Friday afternoon who will replace former minister Paul McLeay.
12:17PM | Edited by Nabila Ahmed and Sarah Thompson | The Australian Financial Review
Woolworths, which has hired Citi to search for potential acquisitions offshore, is believed to have shown initial interest.
12:11PM | The Australian Financial Review
Sales of new vehicles in Australia were up strongly in August, compared to the same month last year, underlining the resilience of household demand outside of the retail sector.
12:05PM | Edited by Nabila Ahmed and Sarah Thompson | The Australian Financial Review
A bidding war for
11:55AM | The Australian Financial Review
One of the trapped Chilean miners is going to have some explaining to do after his wife ran into his mistress at the mine's entrance.
11:47AM | Edited by Nabila Ahmed and Sarah Thompson | The Australian Financial Review
CBA analysts said Santos would need around $6 billion to meet its cash flow requirements out to 2014.
11:41AM | Edited by Nabila Ahmed and Sarah Thompson | The Australian Financial Review
Dexus' exposure to US industrial real estate is likely to continue to weigh on the company's performance.
11:40AM | The Australian Financial Review
French "spiderman" Alain Robert has denied he is disrespectful of Australian law while attacking Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's views on climate change.
11:35AM | Edited by Nabila Ahmed and Sarah Thompson | The Australian Financial Review
Macquarie raises the potential of Leucadia selling down its stake and creating a share overhang,
10:22AM | The Australian Financial Review
Opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton has defended the federal coalition's $1 billion offer to independent MP Andrew Wilkie because the Hobart hospital was "falling down around the doctors' ears".
10:17AM | Edited by Nabila Ahmed and | The Australian Financial Review
Slater & Gordon said it expected to launch a class action on behalf of
10:13AM | Tony Walker | The Australian Financial Review
When Julia Gillard went to the National Press Club on Tuesday to speak about parliamentary reform, you can be sure the words of three champions of representative democracy were not uppermost in her thoughts.
09:54AM | The Australian Financial Review
Queensland independent Bob Katter says there's "no Andrew Wilkies" in his list of 20 conditions for Labor and the coalition to consider.
09:49AM | The Australian Financial Review
Activity in the services sector was "sluggish" in August, rising slightly in the wake of the gradual withdrawal of fiscal stimulus, a report shows.
09:19AM | The Australian Financial Review
Telstra is set to reap at least $452 million from the sale of its 50.5 per cent stake in Chinese real estate website SouFun initial public offering.
08:24AM | The Australian Financial Review
British and French officials are paving the way for unprecedented military co-operation, according to sources on both sides of the Channel.
08:09AM | JACK EWING | The Australian Financial Review
There was a touch of gloating in the most recent earnings report issued by Kuka, a company based in the Bavarian city of Augsburg.
08:00AM | JULIA WERDIGIER | The Australian Financial Review
Royal Bank of Scotland, the bank controlled by the British government, said on Thursday that it planned to cut about 2 per cent of its staff in a cost-cutting move.
07:09AM | Anthony Hughes New York | The Australian Financial Review
Tomorrow's US monthly payrolls report will need to be a good one to keep the positive momentum on Wall Street extending into the Labor Day weekend.
06:46AM | JACK EWING | The Australian Financial Review
The European Central Bank offered a slightly more optimistic view of the euro area's economy Thursday, but also extended its lifeline to troubled banks.
06:37AM | MATTHEW SALTMARSH | The Australian Financial Review
As France prepares to assume an agenda-setting role for the global economy at the helm of the Group of 20, ambition is not in short supply.
05:56AM | Reuters | The Australian Financial Review
Pending sales of previously owned US homes rebounded unexpectedly in July and new claims for jobless benefits fell last week.
05:48AM | SEWELL CHAN | The Australian Financial Review
Ben Bernanke said Thursday that he had failed to recognise vulnerabilities in the financial system that amplified the housing meltdown and nearly collapsed the global economy.
12:00AM | Brad Hatch | The Australian Financial Review
The interview process is tough, the hours are long and beach time is crunched - but the good news is that there are more summer clerkships on offer at Australia's law firms than there were last year.
12:00AM | Christopher Jay | The Australian Financial Review
After seven years of drought, the National Water Commission is looking for ecological consultants to develop specific indicators of how badly an ecology is being hit by low or no water flows.
12:00AM | Verona Burgess | The Australian Financial Review
People's forums might be going out of fashion but not at the Department of Finance and Deregulation.
12:00AM | Verona Burgess | The Australian Financial Review
Senior public servants could find themselves spending much more time appearing before parliamentary committees if reforms to the House of Representatives that are being auctioned off so shamelessly come to pass.
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
What a relief. Four independents seem to be able to identify and name what Australia urgently needs to avoid falling behind other countries. A price on carbon.
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
Paul Hogan's legal advisers have claimed "a transcript of a meeting showed Hogan had relied on the advice of a leading 1980s QC and US attorneys, who found that his tax arrangements were legitimate".
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
If, as is now clear, by far the most expensive demand of rural parliamentarians is going to be for extensive high-speed broadband, then let it be done logically and fairly.
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
The Queensland government has proposed a new category of restricted land called "strategic cropping land", which bans mining or development. This could blight 4 per cent of Queensland, representing an area more than twice the size of Holland and including many areas likely to contain valuable mineral and energy resources.
12:00AM | Fiona Carruthers | The Australian Financial Review
He represents less than 2 per cent of the Australian workforce. But being a minority in the form of a full-time office worker aged 75-plus doesn't stop the 83-year-old business process auditor clocking in five days a week at IBM's sprawling campus on the outskirts of Sydney.
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
Perhaps the most alarming thing for policymakers about the summertime wilt in the US economy is not so much that it is happening, but that the extraordinary measures they have put in place since the financial crisis have been so slow to make a difference.
12:00AM | John Roskam | The Australian Financial Review
There's a chance that the longer we don't have a government the better your shares will perform. Or that's the theory of some American investment strategists.
12:00AM | The New York Times, August 31 | The Australian Financial Review
The head of Oxford University Press, Nigel Portwood, recently caused a stir by openly considering the possibility that the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary might be published in electronic form only.
12:00AM | Ziggy Switkowski | The Australian Financial Review
As the country waits for the formation of the next federal government, each major party leader must be planning the shape of and assignments for the next cabinet. I would like to suggest the formation of a portfolio that includes resources, energy, climate change and environment (RECCE).
12:00AM | Edited by Nabila Ahmed and Sarah Thompson | The Australian Financial Review
When is a share trade not a real trade? And how do you know what is the true market volume of shares being traded?
12:00AM | Nabila Ahmed and Sarah Thompson | The Australian Financial Review
Coal might be hot right now but Wesfarmers has shown no qualms about walking away from the auction for the collapsed Griffin Coal Mining group of companies after eight months of research.
12:00AM | nabila ahmed and sarah thompson | The Australian Financial Review
Spring may have sprung but more interestingly, speculation has resurfaced that Goldman Sachs global chief Lloyd Blankfein has reopened talks with JBWere with regards to a full consolidation.
12:00AM | Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
Listed presettlement and disbursement lender Ask Funding's profit slumped in the 2009-10 financial year as tight credit conditions hampered its business model and it sought debt financing to protect against an uncertain economy.
12:00AM | James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review
The federal government's attempts over decades to restrict judicial review of migration decisions has had unintended consequences.
