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Asciano is fielding offers for a non-controlling stake in Patrick Terminals.

Oil and gas explorer benefits from start of PNG LNG project, reaffirms FY guidance.

Financial markets were rattled by geopolitical flare-ups on Thursday, sending US stocks tumbling to their worst losses in months and investors reaching for the safety of gold and Treasury bonds.

In economics there isn't much difference between a carbon tax or a carbon trading scheme and neither are considered evil. But on 24 February 2011 when Julia Gillard said she was happy to use the word tax to describe her emissions trading scheme it made the world of difference and led to its subsequent repeal.

Will Australia be a leader or a follower in joining the robotics bandwagon?

Australia may be a leading exporter of educational services, but the use of technology in our classrooms is still light years behind. Fixing that requires action not words.

Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive has been widely applauded by Chinese citizens, but it also has serious consequences for the broader economy at a time when growth is under pressure.

The repeal of the carbon tax is a crucial political victory for the Abbott government, but it may not be enough to divert voters' attentions away from its unpopular budget measures.

The Abbott government's push to repeal the carbon and mining taxes underscores the great influence large corporates wield in public policy - sadly, to the detriment of the broader community.

Asciano's Patrick ports business catches the eye of a Chinese power player but majority ownership is a sticking point, while details of Solomon Lew's original David Jones plans come to the surface.

A potential deal between 21st Century Fox and Time Warner could further reinforce the power of Foxtel. That's going to make some consumers very unhappy.

Stockmarkets on both sides of the Atlantic slumped after a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border.

Tax inversion deals are skyrocketing, with several hundred billions' worth of bids lobbed in the last month or so. Are the politically inflammatory deals cheating public revenues, or righting corporate taxation wrongs?

David Thodey managed to lock in a huge NBN bounty with Labor, largely because Rudd wasn't across the numbers and Conroy was anxious to get a deal done. Telstra's CEO has big plans on how to spend that money.

Investors take note. It's not just rugby players that outperform in New Zealand, the economy and local sharemarket have also been riding high. Indeed, the New Zealand bourse, like the nation's annoyingly good All Blacks, has shown its Australian counterpart a clean pair of heels in the five years to mid-July 2014.

The mining industry walked a tight rope in its opposition to the now-repealed carbon tax, highlighted by its quiet campaign against the tax's burden on cost competitiveness.