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The progressive 'gifting' of Telstra's copper and HFC network assets will give NBN Co complete ownership of the fixed network while allowing Telstra to reduce its operational expenditure and concentrate on its future.

Can the Bureau of Statistics help Hockey out his hole over claims 'the poor don't drive and thus hikes to petrol excise are fair'?

A failure to achieve a substantive breakthrough in TPP negotiations by early 2015 will severely cripple the chances of ratifying an agreement, which could have devastating diplomatic and security consequences.

In this video interview, John Durie explains what's behind another successful year for Telstra.

Telstra's strong growth in earnings and its increased dividend to shareholders highlight its balanced strategy of investing in new growth vehicles while improving shareholder returns.

Brought to you by Masters, the group that needs some help figuring out how to be a master of retail.

Beijing's decision to provoke Japan and scare its neighbours may be smarter than it looks.

The Guggenheims have long been associated with their contributions to philanthropy and contemporary art, but the family's dynastic wealth was built from a hole in the ground.

The carbon price crawl, efficiency furphies and solar's impressive-but-not-fast-enough rollout are among the reasons to be pessimistic that humans will rise to the challenge of climate change.

Claims Germany's increasingly green grid is prone to blackouts is rubbished by new data which reveals the country has managed to maintain one of the world's most reliable electricity delivery infrastructures.

While SDN has its place and purpose in IT service delivery, there is a danger of it becoming a solution in search of a problem.

WHILE Tony Abbott, George Brandis and Malcolm Turnbull dig themselves into an ever-deepening hole attempting to explain their internet privacy policy and allay public fears that it is, in reality, a total invasion of privacy policy, the automotive industry watches with interest.

NBN Co badly needs to revisit the capacity and congestion problem plaguing Australia's telco networks, as a multi-technology mix will clog the pipes up quickly.

US generators have continued to snub foreign coal since the 2007 peak as domestic sources become more affordable amid declining coal-fired generation driven by demand dips and gas.

Word, Excel and PowerPoint alternatives from Google and Apple have many of the same features, but Microsoft's subscription service comes with perks.

In an imperfect market economy, the government can't really make sure prices fall by the 'right amount' to reflect carbon tax repeal. And these political games distract the ACCC from its real job.