The government has asked the ACCC to keep a close eye on petrol rices when prices rise by 25.3 cents a litre later this month.
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OPINION: The Australian Financial Review’s exclusive interview with Paul Keating and Bill Kelty effectively exposes how Labor and the unions have undermined productivity and wages growth over the past decade.
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NSW is examining if Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke broke the law by allegedly seeking to influence the independent umpire improperly over its rail dispute.
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The national birth rate will likely rise as parents respond to cheaper childcare, but it could add pressure to an already strained system.
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The buyers of Mount Doreen station, Donny and Colleen Costello and Viv Oldfield, control a portfolio that is now three times the size of Belgium.
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KKR & Co’s called in investment bank Jefferies to think about exit options at pubs, bars and venues owner Australian Venue Co.
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Now that gas and electricity networks owner Vector Ltd’s FY22 results are out of the way, the company’s ramping up plans to sell a half share in its $3 billion Australia/NZ metering unit.
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ASX-listed packaging maker Pro-Pac will cap off an ignominious 2022 financial year with a steeply discounted equity recapitalisation.
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Sam Kennard of Kennards Self Storage has criticised a move to force companies to publicly report their gender pay gap as a burden that won’t add value to his business.
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The outgoing NBN Co chief customer officer must be sick of playing the bad guy.
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Magic Valley CEO Paul Bevan is creating products for environmentally conscious meat-eaters, but as a vegan, he has no plans to eat his own products.
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Forty-seven per cent of Financial Review readers think that Qantas CEO Alan Joyce should resign due to the airline’s recent poor service performance.
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Major Queensland hospitality group will answer questions about an agreement that appears to have been “negotiated” with venue bosses posing as staff.
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The RBA is expected to raise rates by 50 basis points on Tuesday, piling more pressure onto household budgets.
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After two years showing domestically, four Australian designers will put their wares on show for New York Fashion Week - including two for the first time.
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For years, the vocational education and training sector has been underfunded and under-loved and seen as the poor cousin of universities. That’s about to change.
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Labor is set to give the Fair Work Commission new powers to set minimum pay and working conditions for “employee-like” workers in the gig economy.
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The government will not rule out making multi-employer bargaining compulsory, not allowing industry-wide strike action.
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Cynicism is an entirely explicable response to so much talking, for so long, in order to achieve nothing.
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A $500 million portfolio of malls put together by Consolidated Properties and CVS Lane is generating plenty of interest, including from ASX-listed fund managers.
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Local shares are set to resume their fall on Monday as markets prepare for more aggressive tightening by central banks this week.
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Stone the crows! You’d think this airline wannabe would be well up and flying by now.
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Cheaper childcare and more generous paid parental leave could help create more female entrepreneurs, says a Melbourne venture capitalist.
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Two investment firms will pay $425 million for locomotive and wagons leasing company Rail First Asset Management.
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OPINION: An extension to 26 weeks of the current 18-week paid parental leave does not have to break the budget, nor does it need to involve larger taxpayer contributions.
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The days of university academics writing their words of wisdom in academic journals are being challenged by new career paths that immerse them in industry.
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Owen Chen, founder of lender Aoyin, only settled on the Northwood mansion in December, buying it from the estate of the late travel industry doyenne Mary Rossi,
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Costa family-backed goFARM paid $9m for Petro Station near Wentworth in 2017. It hopes to sell the property for more than $20m after extensive investment.
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OPINION: Alexandra Heath has been given the challenge for those preparing the employment white paper will be to integrate the grab-bag of policies that emerged from the Jobs and Skills Summit with the need for economic “dynamism.”
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Fund manager Regal Partners Ltd is making its first big move as an ASX-listed company, with a $110 million equity raising in the works to bankroll a few of its strategies and potential M&A.
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OPINION: Reforming the ‘better off overall test’ won’t be enough to unlock the productivity and wage gains of enterprise bargaining.
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Simon Henry says the market has overreacted as analysts urged the company to ‘retreat into silence’.
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OPINION: Canberra cannot be silent if US policy on Taiwanese independence changes. Quiet diplomacy is called for to warn against policies that recklessly risk war with China.
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Investors hoping that a new bull market has begun are mistaken, according to Bank of America, which sees headwinds for months.
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Amid falling house prices and expectations of another 50 basis points rate hike this week, nearly one in four Sydney vendors pulled their homes from auction.
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Borrowers could save thousands of dollars a year by finding a cheaper lender or switching to a redraw facility.
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She is the overwhelming favourite to beat Rishi Sunak to the Conservative Party leadership when the result of a membership ballot is announced on Monday.
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The vice president did not appear to have suffered any injury, and the man was overpowered within seconds as he stood among a crowd of her supporters.
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Aunty Donna’s ‘Always Room for Christmas Pud’ has been reimagined as a picture book.
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