Telstra TV challenges tech giants
Telstra is taking on Apple and Google with a device that will stream video services such as Netflix and Stan to the home television. The Fin
More jobs go at Woodside
Woodside Petroleum’s drive to cut its cost base is set to claim a further 30 jobs in its Perth head office following a sweeping review of finance and procurement functions. The West
Free Windows 10 upgrade for millions
Windows 7 and 8 users who signed up for an upgrade to Windows 10 will be prompted to download it today. The Fin
BCA calls for new trade rules
Business is pressing the Abbott government to overhaul Australia’s existing trade agreements after the likely completion of new Pacific trade deal this weekend to ensure companies are not confronted with a new noodle bowl of conflicting rules about whether their products are covered by the trade deals. The Fin
Outlook brightens for wheat farmers
Australian wheat growers can expect brighter returns next year and beyond if they can be patient and endure flat world prices for the next six months. The Aus
Kimberley got last sale cash: report
The administrators of the collapsed Ellendale diamond mine say its parent company, Australian-listed Kimberley Diamonds, took possession of $5.8 million from the sale of diamonds only a day before sacking the company’s workers and closing down the mine. The West
The Australian Financial Review
Page 1: Telstra is taking on Apple and Google with a device that will stream video services such as Netflix and Stan to the home television.
Page 3: Windows 7 and 8 users who signed up for an upgrade to Windows 10 will be prompted to download it today.
Page 4: Business is pressing the Abbott government to overhaul Australia’s existing trade agreements after the likely completion of new Pacific trade deal this weekend to ensure companies are not confronted with a new noodle bowl of conflicting rules about whether their products are covered by the trade deals.
After months of bickering, Fortescue Metals Group chairman Andrew Forrest and Rio Tinto iron ore boss Andrew Harding have agreed on one thing: volatility in China’s sharemarket is nothing to worry about.
Former trade minister Craig Emerson says the labour movement has legitimate concerns about the China Australia Free Trade Agreement but questions whether anything can really be done.
Page 8: Forget hard hats, red earth and fly-in, fly-out drudgery. Tourism is once again helping to drive Australia’s growth, and could even explain why the end of the resources boom hasn’t left more people on the dole queue.
Page 15: Volatility in China’s equity markets spilled over into Australian stocks that slid in early trade chasing Chinese shares down as much as 1 per cent before staging a firm recovery locally on talk of China’s state fund buying to support Shanghai and Shenzhen.
BHP Billiton is reducing the number of employees in its offices at 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, by about 100 over the next 18 months, a move that will see its 400-strong Singapore marketing office overtake it in size.
Page 21: Origin Energy has given its firmest signal yet that the start-up of its $24.7 billion Australia Pacific liquefied natural gas project in Queensland is just around the corner, sending its share price up as much as 4 per cent.
The Australian
Page 1: Australia is coming under “unrelenting” attack from online security threats that have more than tripled in three years and are forecast to cost more than $1 billion in malicious damage from activity including crime and espionage.
Page 4: Labor has flagged a plan to shift Australia’s approach on free trade agreements away from the Abbott government’s successful concentration on bilateral deals with China, South Korea and Japan.
Page 5: Climate scientists have consistently underestimated the capacity of a vast Arctic region to absorb carbon emissions.
Page 19: The Chinese government is under pressure to keep its unprecedented equity market support measures in place, as the nation’s central bank yesterday pumped 50 billion yuan ($11bn) into the domestic financial system to reduce the chance of a liquidity crisis, but investors remain nervous about the future.
Myer boss Richard Umbers has hit out at suggestions a wave of looming voluntary redundancies at the retailer will hurt customer service and send sales spiralling, as he reworks the department store owner into a more decentralised business.
AGL Energy chief Andy Vesey says Australia needs consensus and stability in its carbon policy as Paris climate change talks loom at the end of the year.
More Australian mining jobs are set to go this financial year as the industry prepares to weather protracted low prices, with a survey of executives offering a bleak outlook and a growing number intending to cut workers this year.
Page 20: Australian wheat growers can expect brighter returns next year and beyond if they can be patient and endure flat world prices for the next six months.
The West Australian
Page 1: A secret Barnett Government submission for Federal funding admits Fremantle port cannot grow its container traffic unless a new bridge is built across the Swan River.
Page 13: A WA senator has launched a blistering attack on the University of WA’s management after two academics were sacked for disciplinary reasons.
Business: WA farmers have increased the cash reserves they hold in tax effective deposits by almost $250 million over the past two years on the back of bumper grain harvests and strong livestock prices.
Tim Slattery wants to make one thing clear — his family’s national auctioneering business has not crossed the Nullarbor to prey on corporate victims of the mining slump.
Woodside Petroleum’s drive to cut its cost base is set to claim a further 30 jobs in its Perth head office following a sweeping review of finance and procurement functions.
The administrators of the collapsed Ellendale diamond mine say its parent company, Australian-listed Kimberley Diamonds, took possession of $5.8 million from the sale of diamonds only a day before sacking the company’s workers and closing down the mine.
NRW Holdings has resorted to court action in a protracted payment dispute over work on the Roy Hill iron ore project.