Insights

An ambitious Chinese initiative to build a series of strategic maritime distribution centres, west to Africa and beyond, has been revealed.

The banking industry has long rallied against higher capital requirements, warning of dire effects. But the evidence suggests their fears are wildly overblown.

As projects wind down, the mining sector is primed for job cuts, but it's unlikely that residential and non-residential construction will be able to absorb the losses.

Two new findings show how Greenland - which contains enough snow and ice to raise global sea levels more than 6m - could be melting from the bottom up, with ramifications for sea level rise estimates.

The Clean Energy Council has laid bare its willingness to go to 35,000GWh yet Minister Hunt has reaffirmed his 27,000GWh position. However, the government may yet be willing to move.

Rural China is adapting to the urbanisation drive by creatively negotiating the state-society divide.

A savage fall in commodity prices has sparked debate about whether the demerger of BHP's non-core assets should proceed.

It's shaping up to be a bountiful Christmas for the big N. Not Netflix but rather the other N, Nintendo.

Divorces can potentially wreck a family business, but there are legal protections and other structural safeguards.

The holiday period is a critical time for retail businesses and with Australians increasingly turning towards online shopping a business' performance online hinges on application performance.

Nuclear lobbyists have launched another push for the power source to play a role in addressing climate change, recruiting conservation scientists to the cause. But again they fail on several fronts to address the proliferation threat.

Everyone has an opinion about Uber but good, bad, or illegal, the ride sharing app's challenge to the taxi industry is welcome.

Evidence suggests policies brought in to avert fiscal crisis and generational inequality may actually be generating these very outcomes.

Newly released documents show the Victorian government hid analysis that indicated the project couldn't deliver value for public money.

Talking tough on corporate tax avoidance is one thing but as Joe Hockey is finding out, designing effective policies to combat it is another.

The Federal Reserve indicated it's in no hurry to raise rates, while a fall in US consumer prices fuelled a rally on Wall Street.