You get the feeling there will be plenty of bad news in the Federal Budget, given the way Treasurer Wayne Swan and Prime Minister Julia Gill…

James was the editor and publisher of SmartCompany and LeadingCompany for five years. He is now the Australian Financial Review's companies & markets editor, and a former BRW editor.
You get the feeling there will be plenty of bad news in the Federal Budget, given the way Treasurer Wayne Swan and Prime Minister Julia Gill…
Clive Palmer’s incredible year just keeps getting more and more incredible. Just months after apparently turning the course of the Queenslan…
Here’s something to chew on heading into the weekend… Like most journalists, I’ve read a lot this week about the scathing report han…
The Government is not in crisis, and Peter Slipper’s just got a problem with cabbages. Well, that’s according to Clarke and Dawe. {qtu…
You’ve gotta hand it to the banks – they really do know how to spoil a party! Just as business groups, consumers and entrepreneurs ha…
Like every treasurer before him, Wayne Swan waited less than half an hour to claim credit for the RBA’s surprise decision to cut rates by …
Scary. That’s the only way to describe yesterday’s news that insolvencies reached a record level for the month of February. While col…
Prime Minister Julia Gillard might have grabbed all the media attention yesterday afternoon with her decision to distance herself from the e…
Gina Rinehart was back in the courts last week, this time with her joint venture partner Rio Tinto firmly in her sights. She wants a 40-year…
If the Reserve Bank wanted yet another reason to slash rates next week, it received it yesterday when car parts maker CMI Industrial and tra…
The SME community’s relationship with the Australian Taxation Office has been a complex one over the past four years. While most entrepre…
Should the Australian business community be happy or sad to see one of its biotech pioneers ink a merger deal with a US company and move its…