Australia's privacy watchdog is investigating whether credit reporting giant Veda Advantage has broken the law by selling sensitive personal information to marketing companies. Veda records the credit histories of 20 million people in Australia and N...
The federal government has announced 550 million-dollars in concessional loans for dairy farmers affected by recent milk price cuts. Farmers have been left with big debts after Murray Goulburn and Fonterra cut milk prices. The deputy prime minister B...
Energy firm Oil search has announced plans to buy it's P-N-G rival.. Interoil.. for just over three-billion dollars. Oil search says the deal will bolster its development of liquefied natural gas in Papua new guinea.. The boards of oil search and Int...
The government is looking at a possible assistance package for dairy farmers, with the industry reeling from retrospective cuts to milk prices. Murray Goulburn and Fonterra have slashed their prices paid to farmers, and lion dairy and drinks has also...
The federal opposition has reacted angrily to a series of federal police raids on Alp offices and staffer's home in Melbourne. The AFP searched the office of Labor frontbencher Stephen Conroy and a house in Brunswick as part of an investigation into...
The wages of Australian workers are growing at the slowest pace since records began. Figures from the Australian bureau of statistics show the wage price index rose by just 0.4% for the last quarter, yearly growth to March was 2.1%, down from the 2.2...
One man has drowned and another is recovering in hospital after crocodiles attacked a small fishing boat in the Northern Territory. The pair were hauling in crab pots, when a croc charged and capsized their three meter tinny. One of the fishermen dro...
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has launched his re-election campaign...with a strong defence of his time in office. Mr Abbott is seeking to win the Sydney seat of Warringah for a ninth time. He told supporters the coalition was in a strong positio...
Police in the UK have confirmed the suspicious package that caused the evacuation of Manchester's old Trafford stadium overnight was actually a training device left by a private company. Tens-of-thousands of fans were ordered from the stadium about 2...
Automotive experts are calling on federal and state governments to tackle legal grey areas surrounding driverless cars. In march, south Australia legalized a trial of driverless cars on public roads. The road research board says the cars could be a c...
The coalition has made its first big spending promise of the election campaign, pledging nearly 100 million dollars for border protection. Immigration minister Peter Dutton says technology for visas checks will help prevent criminals or terrorists ar...
The federal opposition has accused the prime minister of lying about the government's corporate tax cut proposal. Malcolm Turnbull yesterday said treasury hadn't identified the cost of slashing the tax rate for companies to 25 per cent over a decade,...
The prime minister and opposition leader have hit the Hustings in Queensland...on the first day of the election campaign. Malcolm Turnbull spent the morning spruiking the coalition's plans to boost youth employment and cut company tax around Brisbane...
The oil sands facilities are to the north of the fire in Alberta. As much as a third of Canada's daily oil capacity has been cut and some major pipelines closed, after more evacuations were ordered. The Australian entrepreneur who claimed to be the i...
The Prime Minister accuses the Opposition of abandoning small business owners; Federal MP Clive Palmer confirms he won't recontest his seat of Fairfax; Ted Cruz drops out of the Republican race to the White House. Question time has been dominated by...
