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| Feb 8, 2024 | Businesses resorting to dodgy practices and confusing pricing: ACCC boss | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Australians have been hit by large rises in grocery, energy, transport, child and aged care prices, only adding to other cost of living pressures.
While extreme weather and supply delays have contrib... |
| Jan 26, 2024 | How Woolworths, Peter Dutton, and January 26 combined for 2024’s first culture war | Source: Lukas Coch, AAP Image article-article-body
In the relative quiet of January 2023, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton was able to seize the reins of the debate around that year’s coming vote on a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous adv... |
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| Dec 7, 2022 | Higher data breach penalties a wake-up call to business | As high-profile organisations deal with public scrutiny from recent data breaches, the breadth of the data they held has also been exposed.
The breaches revealed driver’s licence and passport numbers, information about customers who had bee... |
| Nov 25, 2022 | Australia Post brings forward Christmas cut-off dates for WA and NT due to floods and rail disruption | Source: Australia Post
Small businesses on the east coast are advising customers to get their orders in if they want to send gifts to friends and family in Western Australia, after Australia Post brought forward the cut-off date for deliver... |
| Aug 18, 2022 | Real wages in Australia fall by fastest rate on record ahead of Jobs Summit | Australian households are suffering under the sharpest decline in purchasing power on record as “sluggish” wages growth continues to lag behind skyrocketing prices for everyday essentials.
Official figures published on Wednesday revealed re... |
| Aug 16, 2022 | Australia Post parcel shipping will become more expensive next month as fuel costs hit logistics providers nationwide | Small businesses will soon pay more to send their goods via Australia Post, as the service gears up to increase the cost of parcels, shipping bags, and other prepaid products.
Australia Post quietly announced a price hike earlier this month... |
| Aug 11, 2022 | ACCC calls for action on NBN after speeds show “no significant improvement” since 2020 | Australians are being ‘‘dudded’’ by stagnating NBN upload speeds far below the top rates advertised in their internet plans, new data reveals.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said its latest National Broadband Network (NB... |
| Aug 3, 2022 | How photo-sharing app BeReal is keeping it simple while social media rivals diversify | Source: Bereal/twitter.
A bare-bones photo-sharing app has surpassed Instagram, YouTube and TikTok to become the number one most downloaded free app on the Apple store.
Garnering more than 2.93 million daily users in just two years, BeReal ... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | Why is Labor trying to wind back superannuation reforms, and what could be the outcome? | Australian Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones speaks to the media during a doorstop interview at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch)
Who could even question a requirement that super funds act in the... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | Qantas, Etihad and more could be hit with airport staff strikes as baggage handlers mull industrial action | Source: supplied.
Think the recent holiday chaos at airports was bad? Well things could be about to get much worse with a potential baggage handlers’ strike on the cards at airports across the east coast of Australia.
The Transport Workers’... |
| Jul 18, 2022 | Qantas falls out of top five global ranking of the world’s best airlines | Source: AAP/Dan Himbrechts.
Qantas has fallen out of the top five rankings for the world’s best airlines amid a massive wave of customer dissatisfaction.
The Flying Kangaroo slipped from fourth to sixth place in the latest annual scorecard ... |
| Jul 7, 2022 | Meet Tory: The robot Kmart is using to manage inventory at its stores | Robots will soon be roaming Kmart aisles across the country, with the retailer confirming it is enlisting technology to keep an eye on product stock levels.
Kmart confirmed the existence of Tory, a self-navigating stocktake robot, after a S... |
| Jun 24, 2022 | Qantas tagline author tells CEO to remove it from all branding, as airline battles multiple PR crises | Qantas chief executive officer Alan Joyce. Source: AAP/Biance De Marchi.
Writer and commentator Phillip Adams has demanded the boss of Qantas remove the national airline’s ‘Spirit of Australia’ tagline from all branding immediately, as mult... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | Experts warn Telstra-TPG tie-up could see regional customers pay more for internet | Australians could be charged more for their mobile internet if a proposed partnership between Telstra and TPG is approved by the consumer watchdog.
Telecommunications experts told The New Daily that if the deal was approved the two telcos w... |
| Jun 16, 2022 | AEMO has suspended the national electricity market. Here’s what that means, and what happens next | Source: Shutterstock.
Australia’s energy crisis reached a high point on Wednesday when the Australian Energy Market Operator suspended the national electricity market to control runaway prices.
“This decision was made because it was impossi... |
| May 11, 2022 | “Truckloads gone to waste”: Avocado harvests dumped amid low prices in supermarkets | The dumping of "truckloads" of avocados in Atherton, Queensland, has sparked outrage online. Photo: Facebook
Avocado farmers have been forced to dump their harvests as low prices prevent them from recouping transport and labour co... |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Qantas passengers left furious over hours-long call centre wait times | Qantas passengers are demanding the airline hire more staff amid reports of dire customer service, including call wait times of several hours.
One petition calling for the airline to hire more call centre staff in Australia has amassed more... |
| Apr 5, 2022 | What the new free trade deal with India means for Australia | Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Source: AAP/Lukas Coch.
A huge increase in business between India and Australia is expected over the next decade under a new trade agreement signed with the world’s fastest-growing economy over the weekend.
As... |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Australia’s economists want emissions cuts, not tax cuts, in the upcoming budget | Overwhelmingly, Australia’s top economists would rather the budget funds measures to cut carbon emissions than cuts income tax or company tax.
They are also dead against rumoured cuts to petrol tax and the tax on beer.
The Conversation’s pr... |
| Mar 15, 2022 | Record-high petrol prices see Uber, DiDi and Australia Post add fuel surcharges | Source: Getty
Australians are paying more for Ubers and postage as record-high petrol prices prompt big businesses to slug consumers with painful new fuel surcharges.
A run of rapidly rising petrol prices has worsened with the war in Ukrain... |
| Mar 3, 2022 | Coles launches pilot program to deliver groceries by drone | The pilot program will start in Canberra. Source: The New Daily.
Look! Up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane — nope, it’s a drone delivering groceries to your doorstep.
Coles has announced it is launching a pilot program in partnership w... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | ASIC reveals the big businesses that received the most JobKeeper payments | ASIC has published data showing how much money publicly listed companies claimed under JobKeeper. Photo: The New Daily
Qantas, Crown Resorts and Flight Centre have been revealed as the three biggest recipients of the controversial JobKeeper... |
| Dec 3, 2021 | Alternative energy retailers say they’ve picked up hundreds of Powershop customers after the Shell acquisition announcement | Responsible investing is paying dividends for Australia’s $3.4 trillion super industry, a new report shows. Photo: Getty Images
Alternative energy retailers say they have picked up hundreds of former Powershop customers in recent weeks.
Las... |
| Oct 27, 2021 | Five key technologies the government is relying on to reduce emissions: Will they work? | Minister for Energy Angus Taylor during Question Time. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas.
“Technology not taxes,” the Morrison government screams. Its plan to reduce emissions, even before making yesterday’s commitment to net-zero by 2050, is to inve... |
| Oct 12, 2021 | Treasury defends JobKeeper as $13 billion went to companies that were not eligible | Treasury has defended a decision not to claw back $27 billion worth of JobKeeper payments to businesses that maintained or increased sales, arguing it would have “muted the recovery” from the COVID-19 crisis.
The government published a revi... |
| Oct 6, 2021 | NSW and Victoria will use vaccine passports for their reopening this month. Here’s how it will work. | (Credit: Getty)
Vaccine passports are still on track to be trialled this week in regional NSW ahead of the state’s planned reopening on October 11.
The digital proofs of vaccination will be integrated into the ServiceNSW app, will allow peo... |
| Sep 28, 2021 | The biggest merger in years? Why the owners of Bunnings and Amcal are racing to buy Priceline | Source: Inside Retail.
Two of Australia’s biggest retailers are racing to buy Priceline pharmacy in what could become the largest merger the industry has seen in years.
And it’s the sort of race that could benefit consumers, with expectatio... |
| Sep 20, 2021 | 10 things you need to know this morning in Australia | (Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images)
Good morning all. Hope you had excellent weekends.
Former Attorney-General Christian Porter resigned from federal cabinet yesterday rather than reveal who secretly financially supported his defamation action... |
| Aug 30, 2021 | ACCC chair calls for sweeping merger law reform | ACCC chair Rod Sims.
You’re paying too much for everything — from electricity and air travel to phone plans — because Australia’s outdated merger laws allow corporate behemoths to scoop up their competitors, ACCC chair Rod Sims says.
In a l... |
| Jul 28, 2021 | FCA urges Afterpay’s Rebel Wilson ad campaign to be dumped | The FCA is most concerned about a scene where Wilson explains buy-now, pay-later to a bemused young girl. Source: YouTube.
Australia’s financial counsellors have demanded a “disturbing” ad for a buy-now, pay-later company, starring Australi... |
| Jun 18, 2021 | Your Future, Your Super: Here’s what the recently passed bill means | Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy Jane Hume. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas.
The Morrison government has passed its controversial Your Future, Your Super bill through Parliament after winning the support of Ja... |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett’s ‘true tax rates’ revealed. Are Australian billionaires next? | Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Source: AAP.
It’s a perennial question: How much tax do the world’s richest really pay?
As it turns out, not very much.
The personal tax bills of billionaires like Warren Buffett, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have bee... |
| May 29, 2021 | Photos reveal Mark Zuckerberg surfing while wearing an $84 bracelet that claims to fend off sharks | Mark Zuckerberg was photographed wearing a Sharkbanz bracelet while surfing recently.
The device is designed to keep sharks at bay by emitting an electromagnetic current, though some experts have expressed doubt about its effectiveness.
Bar... |
| May 28, 2021 | Photos reveal Mark Zuckerberg surfing while wearing an $84 bracelet that claims to fend off sharks | Mark Zuckerberg was photographed wearing a Sharkbanz bracelet while surfing recently.
The device is designed to keep sharks at bay by emitting an electromagnetic current, though some experts have expressed doubt about its effectiveness.
Bar... |
| May 24, 2021 | RIP Internet Explorer: A look back at the once-popular websites the internet outgrew | Install disc for Internet Explorer 4.0. Source: archive.org
This week Microsoft pulled the plug on its onetime flagship web browser, Internet Explorer.
Launched in 1995, Internet Explorer became the go-to browser around the globe, pre-insta... |
| May 14, 2021 | Budget 2021: Everything you need to know about changes to superannuation | Source: Unsplash/Adam Winger.
The federal budget included help for low-income earners, first-home buyers and downsizers, but made no mention of the superannuation guarantee.
Here’s everything you need to know. $450 threshold
The best supera... |
| May 4, 2021 | Solomon Lew’s Premier Investments pays back $15.6 million in JobKeeper payments, out of its total $68.7 million | Premier Investments Chairman Solomon Lew. Source: AAP Image/Julian Smith
Smiggle owner Premier Investments has bowed to public pressure and promised to pay back $15.6 million worth of JobKeeper payments it received during the pandemic last ... |
| Apr 26, 2021 | Afterpay just delivered $426 million to its US team, but will the Aussie tech giant be seeing profits any time soon? | Source: Igor Golovniov/SOPA/SIPA USA.
It’s not often that Australian entrepreneurs create a globally noteworthy startup in the financial services space, but with buy-now, pay-later champion Afterpay, we have certainly got that.
As things st... |
| Mar 22, 2021 | Retail squeeze looms as post-lockdown splurging begins to splutter | Source: Unsplash/Korie Cull.
A mighty retail squeeze could be coming for some of Australia’s favourite brands as the shine starts coming off the COVID-19 spending splurge.
Retail sales sank 1.1% in February in a weaker-than-expected result ... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | Economists say up to 110,000 jobs could be lost when JobKeeper ends this month | Source: AAP/Bremdon Thorne.
Up to 110,000 people could lose their jobs when JobKeeper expires at the end of the month, according to new research by Commonwealth Bank.
With less than three weeks to go until the federal government stops subsi... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | Crown’s $210 million JobKeeper bill should be investigated in royal commission, says Fiona Patten | James Packer. Source: AAP.
Crown’s $210 million JobKeeper bill should be scrutinised in Victoria’s wide-ranging royal commission, independent state senator and Reason Party leader Fiona Patten has said.
Millions of dollars in federal wage s... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | Facebook has pulled the plug on news, so why is Google funnelling millions into media outlets? | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg speaks to the press. Source: Lukas Coch/AAP.
Over the past few days, Google has been inking multimillion-dollar deals to pay media companies for news content that will appear on Google News Showcase.
Rupert Murdoch... |
| Feb 12, 2021 | IPA backs ATO decision not to claw back $50 million in JobKeeper payments made in error | ATO Second Commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn at a Senate Estimates hearing in October 2020. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas.
A leading accounting group has backed the Australian Taxation Office’s decision not to pursue $50 million in JobKeeper p... |
| Jan 7, 2021 | Job ads outstrip pre-pandemic levels. Here’s who is getting hired and which industries are bouncing back | Advertised job vacancies are now exceeding pre-pandemic levels after businesses embarked on a major festive recruitment drive.
But concern continues to grow over how the imminent end of JobKeeper could affect unemployment and underemploymen... |
| Dec 15, 2020 | Accessible And Representative Toys Key For Development Of Kids With Disabilities | Kmart range of diversity dollsKmart |
| Dec 10, 2020 | Family of killed UberEats rider files workers’ comp claim, in what could be a landmark test case for the gig economy | Source: Unsplash/ Kai Pilger.
The family of Dede Fredy, an UberEats rider killed in Sydney in November, is filing a workers’ compensation claim over his death, in a case that could set a new precedent for businesses that rely on the gig eco... |
| Dec 9, 2020 | Demand for regional properties soars as office workers move away from Australia’s cities | Anglesea on Victoria's surf coast. Source: Flickr/Andrea Castelli.
Real estate agents are reporting soaring demand for regional properties as office workers ride the working-from-home wave to calmer shores.
Younger Australians who left... |
| Nov 13, 2020 | “We wanted people to be blown away”: Hello Friend Foods raises $670,000 to fill the vegan-cheese void | Hello Friend Foods co-founders Bree Gaudette and Matthew Ronalds. Source: supplied.
Aussie startup Hello Friend Foods has raised $670,000 in an equity crowdfunding campaign, as it gears up to dominate the plant-based cheese space in Austral... |
| Nov 6, 2020 | ‘In digital, the right-wing material is 24/7’: How Sky News quietly became Australia’s biggest news channel on social media | Australian television channel Sky News Australia has one of the biggest social media reaches of any Australian media organisation.
The News Corporation-owned channel has grown its massive audience in just over a year, since changing its dig... |
| Oct 23, 2020 | Australia Post CEO stood down by PM Scott Morrison after admitting the company bought employees Cartier watches | Former Australia Post chief executive officer Christine Holgate. Source: AAP Image/Brendan Esposito.
A furious Scott Morrison has ordered Australia Post’s chief executive to stand aside while opening a far-reaching investigation into the go... |
| Oct 22, 2020 | Veronica Fil: Australia’s Vegan Market is Heating Up | Guys, I told you. The Aussie vegan market is about to get huge. With the country’s borders closed, high-potential startups have had no choice but to bunker down and build their businesses on home soil.
It’s put a much-needed plug in the cou... |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Budget 2020: The pros and cons of Frydenberg’s superannuation reforms | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas.
In a budget surprise, the Morrison government has introduced measures that could tie members to their first super fund through life and bar underperforming funds from taking new memb... |
| Oct 6, 2020 | Budget 2020: Businesses to fully write-off all assets purchased and used before June 2022 | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas.
Starting tonight, Australian businesses will be able to immediately write-off the full value of new assets under a measure unveiled in the federal budget.
There had been speculation ... |
| Oct 5, 2020 | Budget 2020: $1.2 billion wage subsidy program for apprentices and trainees | Minister for Employment Michaelia Cash at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, on Thursday, May 14, 2020. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas.
The federal government says it wants to help Australian businesses hire 100,000 new apprentice... |
| Oct 2, 2020 | Budget 2020: Fringe benefits tax exemptions and red tape cuts on the way | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
The federal government will use next week’s budget to introduce a raft of tax concessions for SMEs, in a move it says will allow more businesses to stay open and retain staff.
The budget will include a $112 millio... |
| Sep 23, 2020 | Australians Can Soon Enjoy 1 Gigabyte per Second Broadband as NBN Upgrades with Local Fiber Networks | CJ Robles, Tech Times 23 September 2020, 02:09 am
The National Broadband Network's (NBN's) $3.5 billion upgrade will allow six million Australian homes get access to ultra-fast broadband by 2023.
The upgrade would include expansio... |
| Sep 21, 2020 | [Leak] FinCEN Files Reveal 5 Famous Names You Wouldn't Expect to be Linked to the $2 Trillion Dirty Money Bank Scandal | Urian B., Tech Times 21 September 2020, 10:09 pm
Banks all over the world are under fire for not being able to stop over $2 trillion USD of suspicious money that was being funnelled throughout their own systems. Leaked documents coming from... |
| Sep 17, 2020 | “It’s the uncertainty that’s the killer”: Victorian businesses are having their government grant applications rejected without explanation | Section 8 in Melbourne's CBD. Source: Facebook.
Victorian business owners have had their applications for government grants rejected without explanation as they fight to stay afloat during the extended lockdown.
Slow communications, a ... |
| Aug 11, 2020 | Daniel Andrews rules out sole trader exceptions, after Jim’s Mowing boss calls for his resignation | Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews. Source: AAP.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has ruled out relaxing workplace restrictions for sole traders after an open letter from Jim’s Mowing boss Jim Penman called for his resignation if he failed to... |
| Jul 7, 2020 | U.S. "looking at" banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps, Mike Pompeo says | Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said late Monday that the U.S. is "looking at" banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps over national security concerns. His remarks come as India banned the app and Australia is considerin... |
| Jul 6, 2020 | Second wave of infections could cost Australia $100 billion: Deloitte | A second wave of infections would cost Australia $100 billion in lost national income, according to new research that also warns against withdrawing government support too early.
As Victoria battles to contain a worrying surge of infections... |
| Jun 16, 2020 | Working from home? Here’s what you can claim in your tax return | The coronavirus pandemic has massive implications for this year’s tax season.
Work expenses in particular have been flipped on their head, with many workers required to work from home since March or April.
The ATO responded to the challenge... |
| Apr 7, 2020 | ‘An act of business bastardry’: Big business keeps squeezing small suppliers on payments in face of COVID-19 | Source: The New Daily
The small wholesaler was giving the large customer the standard 30 days to pay with a three per cent discount.
On the 30th day came the extra squeeze, an arm twist for more, an act of business bastardry.
With payment a... |
| Mar 18, 2020 | ‘Wrong size, wrong shape’: The coronavirus stimulus fails sole traders and freelancers | David Howe says he’ll struggle to pay the rent if he loses his freelance work.
The Canberra-based television sports broadcast operator and live music event manager is one of an army of Australians who live from invoice to invoice, or pay ch... |
| Dec 16, 2019 | There Can Only Be One Silicon Valley, So Let’s Try Something Else | We just don’t have what they have. The DEMO Conference/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND
By Ian Maxwell, University of Technology Sydney
The world only needs one Silicon Valley. The evidence? Firstly, Silicon Valley doesn’t just serve the US, it is a m... |
| Dec 10, 2019 | Gift cards, clothes and cooking classes: What Australians will be splurging on this Christmas | From clothes and shoes to turkey and Christmas pudding, Australians are set to splurge hundreds of dollars this holiday season.
Australians will spend an average of $686 each this Christmas, with more than half of that ($351) going on groce... |
| Dec 2, 2019 | No KeepCup? No worries: Meet Australia’s first ‘circular economy’ takeaway coffee cup | Brothers Marty and Jeremy Rowell (left to right) have created Australia's first circular economy coffee cup. Photo: The Cup eXchange.
As the backlash to single-use products grows, BYO reusable coffee cups have become popular among busy... |
| Nov 13, 2019 | Bitcoin Getting Favored by Retirees in Australia Despite Volatility: Report | Contents Retirees getting to like Bitcoin investments againTraditional assets becoming uncertainAnthony Pompliano: Bitcoin is a way out for US pension funds
A report made by the crypto exchange Independent Reserve says that Australians in t... |
| Sep 11, 2019 | Unpaid superannuation needs to be addressed with legislative change, Industry Super Australia says | Moves by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to go after employers not paying their workers superannuation are welcome, but barely scratch the surface of the problem, Industry Super Australia (ISA) says.
ISA analysis has shown that one in ... |
| Jul 18, 2019 | The $500,000 cheque Dick Smith says he doesn’t deserve | Dick Smith. Source: AAP/Lukas Coch.
By Euan Black
Millionaire Dick Smith has reignited the debate over franking credits after saying that receiving $500,000 worth in a single year was “outrageous”.
Smith said he didn’t know what franking cr... |
| Jul 4, 2019 | Samsung’s in hot water for allegedly misleading customers about water-resistant Galaxy phones | The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is taking Samsung to court in the country, alleging that the Korean company has been lying to Australian consumers for years about the water-resistant capabilities of several Galaxy ... |
| Jun 12, 2019 | Water Wars: U.S.-China Divide at Shangri-La | The Shangri-La Dialogue, the highest profile annual security forum in Asia, was held from May 31 to June 2 in Singapore. Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivered an opening speech that received widespread praise from Chinese net... |
| Apr 4, 2019 | Budget 2019: Change to superannuation ‘work test’ will allow senior couples to contribute extra $500,000 | Wealthy couples will be able to contribute $500,000 more into superannuation between the ages of 65 and 67 as part of a new budget measure, analysis from Industry Super Australia shows.
New budget arrangements also allow people who have max... |
| Dec 20, 2018 | How Australia Is Banking On New Competition | Australian countryside landscape foggy day with kangaroo in Adelaide Hills with trees in background Getty |
| Nov 14, 2018 | RACV 'system error' empties bank accounts, credit cards | Insurer RACV has blamed a “system error” for causing the company to repeatedly direct debit customers, maxing out their credit cards and draining their bank accounts sometimes to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.
Angry customers hit... |
| Aug 27, 2018 | Afterpay’s growth skyrockets but scrutiny of ‘buy now, pay later’ platforms is set to increase | Afterpay co-founder Nick Molnar. Source: supplied.
Popular homegrown ‘buy now, pay later’ app Afterpay has posted huge growth and is now expanding internationally — but its success has been tainted by a rise in debt problems reported by use... |
| Aug 17, 2018 | A twofold solution: The royal commission must consider both regulation and education | Commissioner Kenneth Hayne. Source: AAP/David Geraghty.
By Dirk Baur, University of Western Australia; Elizabeth Ooi, University of Western Australia, and Paul Gerrans, University of Western Australia
The Financial Services Royal Commission... |
| Aug 8, 2018 | “A lay-down misere”: Calls to relieve super burden on SMEs as royal commission focuses on superannuation | Australia’s small business leaders have reinforced a push for employers to be taken out of the superannuation process entirely as the banking royal commission’s focus switches to the $26 billion industry this week.
A slew of big-name super ... |
| Aug 1, 2018 | Australia’s 30 best-performing super funds revealed | Superannuation has been a standout investment for the past decade, with the top 30 funds recording an average gain of 9.2% for the year to June 30 and 6.4% over 10 years to that date.
Lists of the top 30 performing funds over one year and 1... |
| Jul 30, 2018 | How Macquarie Bank’s new chief Shemara Wikramanayake breaks the mould | Macquarie Group's incoming chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake. Source: AAP Image/Dean Lewins
Only the second woman to run a major Australian financial institution, Shemara Wikramanayake, says she’s never encountered barriers on her ... |
| Jul 17, 2018 | Australia’s highest-paid CEO earned $36.8 million last year – 669 times the average worker | Domino's chief executive Don Meij. Source: Supplied.
Want to earn as much as Australia’s highest-paid chief executive? No problem. All you have to do is stick at your job and work hard for … 669 years.
That’s how long it would take for... |
| Jul 10, 2018 | How ticket scalping bots are pushing up the cost and making to harder to buy tickets in Australia | Automated scalping bots are snatching up Australian event tickets in bulk far more quickly than genuine fans can secure a single ticket, amid mounting pressure for a crackdown on ticket bots.
Tickets to major events are increasingly selling... |
| Jun 29, 2018 | Ticketmaster data breach: Australian customers told to reset passwords | Australian Ticketmaster customers have been told to change their passwords and check their bank accounts after the ticketing sales website suffered a global data breach.
It is understood that the cyber attack could have compromised the pers... |
| Jun 26, 2018 | CBA’s shock move may be a revolution for Australian financial services | Matt Comyn has launched his career as boss of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia with a bang, effectively splitting the nation’s biggest bank in two.
The new chief executive revealed on Monday he would be spinning off the bank’s wealth, fin... |
| Jun 15, 2018 | Banks come out swinging at royal commission claims | Major banks are fighting back after the financial services royal commission found they had left themselves open for findings of misleading and deceptive conduct in their dealings with small business owners.
In submissions to the commission ... |
| Jun 12, 2018 | Revealed: How much Australians really earn | A casual glance at the news in recent months may have left you thinking the average Australian earns almost $85,000 a year.
If that sounded insanely high to you, then your instincts were bang on. An ordinary Australian earns way, way less t... |
| May 24, 2018 | Royal commission hears bank crushed Wendy’s franchisees by doubling loan repayments | Witness Suzanne Riches leaves the Royal Commission. Source: AAP/Tracey Nearmy
Bank of Queensland doubled the monthly repayments on a business loan without telling a franchisee couple, forcing their business into liquidation, the financial s... |
| May 14, 2018 | The cheapest – and most expensive – places to fill up your car revealed | Petrol has hit a record high as tensions between Ukraine and Russia mount.
Coles Express is the most expensive petrol retailer in each of the major capital cities, while filling up at 7-Eleven, Woolworths, United and smaller outlets should ... |
| May 2, 2018 | Victorian budget: Payroll tax cuts for SMEs and free TAFE training to fill construction blitz worker shortage | Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas. Source: AAP/Joe Castro.
Thousands of Victorians will be trained for free under a state budget initiative to fill widening skills shortages, in part created by the government’s election-year construction blitz... |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Government edges closer to sealing company tax cut plan: Here are the key players | There’s been plenty of movement in the federal parliament since politicians came back to school in February, but when it comes to company tax cuts, Malcolm Turnbull’s government has been insistent: it is determined to give all Australian co... |
| Mar 12, 2018 | How women-led superannuation funds are doing better than their rivals | Superannuation funds with 30% of women in leadership have outperformed male-dominated funds by $7 billion over three years, according to new research from Rainmaker.
To make the call, Rainmaker assessed 66 super funds and derived a weighted... |
| Jan 31, 2018 | Text message scams are on the rise and it’s costing Australians thousands of dollars | Phishing scams have surged in 2017 and scammers are often posing as trusted local brands, increasingly sending text messages directly to mobile phones in the hope of fooling Australians.
Despite increased awareness — with reports to the con... |
| Dec 29, 2017 | Australia is set to Launch the Largest-Ever Class Action in that Country against Apple in the New Year
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Search | In our report covering the 10th Class Action against Apple an Australian reader commented that "In Australia a product must be of acceptable quality and must continue to function for the full duration of the contracted period or even l... |
| Nov 24, 2017 | Could robots help Amazon beat AusPost's slow delivery problem? | Amazon's launch in Australia is likely to put fresh scrutiny on the speed of Australia Post’s own deliveries. To that end, Australia Post is trialling the use of robots to deliver parcels more promptly.
Research finds that consumer tru... |
| Nov 14, 2017 | Australia Post trial delivery robot described as a ‘glorified esky’ | Australia Post is investing in new delivery infrastructure to keep up with soaring parcel volumes.
Australia Post’s trial of a new robot companion for mail staff has been described as ‘uneconomic’ and a ‘glorified esky’.
In a move designed ... |
| Oct 3, 2017 | ‘Taking out the trash’: Parliamentary report slams NBN rollout | A scathing parliamentary report into the National Broadband Network (NBN) has called for sweeping changes to the project amid concerns poor and rural areas will be left behind by the current plan.
The joint federal inquiry’s 210-page report... |
| Sep 19, 2017 | Why the economics of bike-sharing schemes makes sense | Source: AAP/oBike Australia
By Sun Sheng Han, University of Melbourne
Have you ever walked past (or tripped over) a shared bike and wondered how it’s possible for the business to survive with a ride costing as little as $2 per half hour?
Wh... |
| Sep 7, 2017 | Greens Senator outs ATO mismangement over massive fraud and silencing of whistleblower | By John Power
Bombshell allegations that ATO mismanagement covered up massive fraud against the taxpayer have exploded into public view five years after an internal whistleblower raised concerns he claims cost him his job.
Greens senator Pe... |
