Well, he’s done it. Treasurer Wayne Swan has kept his political promise to deliver a surplus in 2012-13, with his fifth federal budget set t…
Well, he’s done it. Treasurer Wayne Swan has kept his political promise to deliver a surplus in 2012-13, with his fifth federal budget set t…
Wayne Swan has delivered his promised Budget surplus, with a $44 billion deficit in 2011-12 expected to turn into a $1.5 billion surplus in …
Australia’s trade deficit expanded during March, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The figu…
The Craig Thomson controversy has highlighted the importance of setting clear policies and structure around the use of expense accounts, exp…
The mining, retail, and recreation industries are all experiencing better business conditions but the manufacturing, construction and wholes…
The number of job advertisements published in both newspapers and the internet declined 3% during April, according to the latest figures fro…
Businesses are confident activity will increase in the short-term partly due to speculation over interest rates cuts, the latest NAB busines…
You may think, if you took any notice of politics this weekend, that you are in some kind of parallel universe. The toughest Federal Budg…
The inflation data has come and gone for another quarter, so it is worth taking a big picture look at the results. First there was the da…
The Reserve Bank has cut its growth and inflation forecasts for the upcoming financial year due to weaker global conditions, along with fore…
Harvey Norman’s pre-tax profit for the first nine months of the financial year is down 25% as sales continued to fall in the first quarter…
ANZ Banking Group has lifted its first half profit by 1% to $2.92 billion but says margins in its Australian business are declining. The …
