03:21PM | Reuters
One woman died and troops were deployed to help thousands of people after storms and flash floods hit Queensland.
02:17PM | AAP
Comments by Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens in a speech on Wednesday were balanced, federal Treasurer Wayne Swan says.
07:12AM | David Crowe and Patrick Durkin | The Australian Financial Review
The Rudd government is poised to toughen the penalties for spreading false information about a company.
07:16AM | Brendan Swift | The Australian Financial Review
Babcock & Brown will retrench staff and sell assets in a last-ditch effort to stave off insolvency.
07:10AM | Adrian Rollins Economics correspondent | The Australian Financial Review
Glenn Stevens has warned that the federal government may need to take the budget into deficit to support demand.
02:38PM | AAP
Malcolm Turnbull says Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens has sent the prime minister conflictng messages.
12:00AM | Sophie Morris | The Australian Financial Review
Capital expenditure on mining and energy projects - a major driver of economic growth in recent years - has fallen in the last six months in a sign that companies are shelving investment plans as commodity prices soften.
12:00AM | Patrick Durkin | The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Taxation Office ruled yesterday that bees, being insects, were animals under the Tax Act, which means beekeepers are required to count, value and pay tax on their beekeeping businesses.
12:00AM | Mark Skulley and Louise Dodson | The Australian Financial Review
Toyota Australia has confirmed it will gear down car production in the next two months and closely monitor monthly output in the early part of next year to take account of falling car sales.
06:23AM | Mark Skulley and Duncan Hughes | The Australian Financial Review
The Victorian government will require that projects worth more than $250 million have at least 40 per cent local content, setting a new procurement benchmark to try to boost industry and jobs.
12:00AM | Tracy Ong | The Australian Financial Review
Coalminers have asked the competition regulator that a rationing system designed to keep under control bottlenecks at the world's busiest coal port be extended for three months.
12:00AM | Marsha Jacobs with AAP | The Australian Financial Review
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said a second child-care provider placed in voluntary administration did not signal a wave of kindergarten closures.
07:11AM | John Breusch and Sophie Morris | The Australian Financial Review
Trade-exposed industries have stepped up their attacks on the federal government over carbon trading, accusing it of failing to engage with their concerns and warning the proposed scheme could increase global emissions.
07:12AM | John Breusch | The Australian Financial Review
Federal Treasury has rejected claims that its climate change modelling should have considered what would happen if the world fails to reach agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Its analysis was based on a "realistic" assumption of a staged global deal, it said.
12:00AM | Alexander Symonds | The Australian Financial Review
Private schools are resisting federal government attempts to make their funding sources more transparent because they fear the media will distort the information, a Senate inquiry has been told.
12:00AM | Julie-anne Sprague | The Australian Financial Review
West Australian Treasurer Troy Buswell has hinted at deeper cuts to the public sector, claiming the state's bureaucracy had been "gathering moss" under the reign of the former Labor government.
12:00AM | John Breusch | The Australian Financial Review
The free-to-air television industry has said it should not be singled out as the culprit for rising incidence of childhood obesity through a ban on junk food advertising.
03:49AM | AAP | The Australian Financial Review
Importance of powers
12:00AM | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
New GM for Bell theatreThe Bell Shakespeare theatre company has appointed deputy general manager Christopher Tooher as general manager, replacing Jill Berry, who has resigned after six years in the job and 11 years with the company. Katrina Strickland
12:00AM | Ashley Midalia | The Australian Financial Review
Franchises that use brand-wide promotions - where goods are sold at a certain maximum price across the chain - could face criminal prosecution for price fixing, according to competition lawyers' latest criticism of planned changes to cartel laws.
06:25AM | Julie-anne Sprague | The Australian Financial Review
The re-election of militant unionist Kevin Reynolds as boss of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union in Western Australia will add to industry arguments for retaining the powers of the Australian Building and Construction Commission, says business.
07:10AM | Alan Mitchell Economics Editor | The Australian Financial Review
Glenn Stevens is not urging a return to a chronic deficit financing. Rather, the Reserve Bank governor is saying the economic slowdown could make a temporary budget deficit good macro-economic policy.
07:11AM | Adrian Rollins Economics correspondent | The Australian Financial Review
Pressure on the Reserve Bank of Australia to step on the monetary policy accelerator is set to intensify as evidence of a substantial economic downturn mounts.
07:10AM | Geoff Winestock | The Australian Financial Review
The idea of a first federal government budget deficit in a decade might prove controversial, but market economists agree with Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens that now is exactly the time to go into the red.
12:00AM | Tony Walker LIMA, PERU | The Australian Financial Review
Simon Crean says the US is significantly more engaged on this occasion.
12:00AM | Mark Ludlow with AAP | The Australian Financial Review
The Queensland government has appointed a recovery taskforce to help rebuild Brisbane's northern suburbs after Sunday night's destructive thunderstorms, which left a damages bill of more than $100 million.
12:00AM | David Crowe | The Australian Financial Review
Spreading false rumours about a company's prospects is likely to be subject to stronger sanctions under a federal government review aimed at making it easier for the corporate regulator to prosecute.
06:28AM | John Kerin | The Australian Financial Review
Defence giant BAE Systems Australia has bid for a stake in $500 million in hull construction work on the Navy's $8 billion air warfare destroyer project.
12:00AM | Narelle Hooper | The Australian Financial Review
Companies might have all the right policies to encourage equal opportunity in their businesses but unless top management had the mindset to embrace change it was meaningless, Woodside Petroleum chief executive Don Voelte said yesterday..
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Australia will continue to build warships like HMAS Sydney as symbols of strength and resolve to act should the time come. The Sydney lost 645 crewmen in a battle with the German raider Kormoran on November 19, 1941. Mr Rudd was speaking yesterday at the Australian War Memorial as part of national commemoration services.
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