Insights

Production and sales volumes rise, revenue slips, full-year guidance reaffirmed at top end.

A steep and structural increase in the gold sector's cost base has raised debate about whether big miners like Barrick and Newmont should continue to push for scale or instead focus on shareholder returns.

Average growth superannuation fund is up 10.5 per cent so far this financial year: Chant West.

Watch: An investigation into the world of laughs for money.

A review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme has identified that its ICT system is not fit for purpose. Given the scale of the project this is one implementation that will push the limits.

Local market begins shortened trading week in the black on upbeat Wall Street leads.

Nike has reportedly called time out on its FuelBand, failing to get enough scale among its millions of customers. Payments companies are watching closely.

China says the gift of a tree to Japan's controversial war shrine is a slap in the face for US President Barack Obama, who arrives in two days' time.

The latest announcements on a second airport for Sydney and an airport rail link for Melbourne show just how out-dated current thinking is on major infrastructure in Australia.

Investment bank secures electricity retail licenses across east coast: report.

The media is at least partly to blame for the policies putting more pressure on middle Australia. Rather than fanning another fear campaign, journalists need to embrace a fair debate on GST reform.

State power has nurtured the wind and solar industries to the point Chinese firms now stride the world stage. But climate change does not really figure in Beijing's renewables push.

Driven by the ground-mounted segment, Britain installed a massive 1.1 GW in solar in the three months to March, rocketing the nation's solar capacity to 4.46 GW.

Via three sobering graphs, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change puts the emissions equation in stark relief.

A review of the government's emissions data showed electricity emissions took a record fall while mining activity - and wealth - grew in the carbon price's first full calendar year.

Approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline would have risked dampening the turnout of environmentalists, as well as the generosity of some wealthy Democrat donors, for the US mid-terms.