The new Support at Home Program for the elderly is introducing a 'free market' transactional aged care system. It's a retrograde step.

The gender pay gap accelerates across a woman’s working life, peaking in her late-50s and leaving female workers millions of dollars short of men over their careers. Women entering the workforce in ...

Clutching flowers instead of bats and bags, dozens of heartbroken young cricketers arrived at a suburban ground to pay tribute to their teammate who never came home. The tragic scene unfolded after ...

Asian shares are set for a seventh consecutive month of gains on Friday, after upbeat earnings from Amazon and Apple buoyed Wall Street futures and the dollar hovered near three-month highs on ...

The annual meeting of one of Australia’s biggest mining firms has been interrupted by protesters blaming the company for knowingly contributing to the climate crisis. Whitehaven Coal executives ...

Crucial inflation figures may be the final piece in the puzzle for the Reserve Bank on what it will do next on interest rates Inflation data for the September quarter will be released on Wednesday by ...

“Keeping perspective” is Michael Pascoe’s mantra. He writes that AI mania has not just warped perspective, it risks blowing up reality. Over more decades than I care to count of market watching and ...

Microsoft has deployed a fix to address an outage of its Azure cloud portal that has left users unable to access Office 365, Minecraft and other services while disrupting Scotland’s parliament. The ...

The Senate has voted for an inquiry into regional air travel. Not before time, says Rex Patrick, airport screening costs are forcing up prices in the regions. Everyone wants air travel to be free from ...

Young girls are being hunted by young men online who are coercing their vulnerable victims into carrying out “twisted” acts of violence, the new head of the federal police warns. In an address to the ...