Insights

While the Four Corners program aired last week lamented Australia's position in the global renewables race, I was actually left uplifted and optimistic looking back to an eerily similar 2007 episode of Four Corners.

An Indian engineer is preparing a 9600km odyssey through 10 countries on a sun-powered rickshaw to promote the idea of environmentally friendly travel.

Having no price on carbon could have significant impacts on Australian business in the short, medium and long run.

The key test of Australian policy is not whether they like it in Washington, Tokyo or Beijing. It is whether we contribute to stoking animosity between them, or help to damp it down.

The calendar has always had one sole purpose: to keep us organised. But how do you organise your organisers?

Australia's housing needs need to be addressed, but calls to scrap negative gearing will punish investors and could have deleterious consequences for the economy.

The ATO is yet to release its advice on the legal status of cryptocurrencies for GST purposes, but when it does it will likely be just the beginning of a bigger legislative tussle.

Devine has agreed to field offers for Leighton's stake or the company as a whole.

Local market begins marginally stronger despite Fed warning tech stocks are overvalued.

Times have never been tougher for Australia's farming families, and with earnings likely to fall significantly this year agribusinesses are hanging on for dear life.

Mining giant retains FY iron ore guidance, lifts copper guidance on strong second quarter.

Australian organisations are being hit hardest by Distributed Denial of Service attacks and they need to have both a response plan in place and the resources available to defend themselves.

The week in clean energy saw solar take precedence in the new Indian government's first budget, good news for Asia's second-largest wind-turbine maker and movements afoot on EU carbon politics.

California continues to set daily records for utility-scale solar energy, with a massive generation peak of nearly 5GW last month.

The Financial System Inquiry interim report rightly identifies the risk in Australian banks' fixation with high-leverage mortgages, but it must go further and address the source of the problem.

The renminbi may be a rising force in global transactions, but without profound economic reform in China the talk of its rapid internationalisation has no currency.