Insights

Australian consumers are paying the price for the unwieldy energy policy processes of federal and state governments. With disarray on both sides of politics, when will the madness end?

OS migrations are among the most expensive, stressful and time intensive projects for IT departments. So what does this increasingly shortened software lifecycle mean for businesses?

The pressure on NBN Co's interim satellite service has evidently reached critical mass and fixing it is going to cost money one way or another.

Beyond yet more Labor muck-racking, the latest NBN inquiry must investigate why successive governments have left our telecom sector in such a mess.

The ACCC chairman wants to extend anti-signalling laws from the banking sector to other industries to prevent collusive behaviour. Given the way the Virgin-Qantas capacity war has played out, he needn't worry.

Stronger than forecast employment data, rising iron ore futures buoy local bourse.

There is a silver-lining to the turmoil in the mining sector - development costs are falling and that is going to enable miners to squeeze more compelling returns from their projects.

Retailer to create 6981 new jobs across its Australian business division this financial year.

When irrational fear grips a market, as happened with iron ore this week, forecasts are pretty much useless.

Investors should take the seasonally adjusted report for February with a large grain of salt, and the Reserve Bank may do the same.

Investors were probably too optimistic heading into the latest first-half reporting season, underestimating the effects of the high currency and the downturn in resources capital spending.

Local market lifts as economy adds jobs three times faster than forecast.

Marcelino Fernandez Verdes to replace Hamish Tyrwhitt, Hochtief sweetens bid.

After Wal King left Leighton an ACS offensive was only a matter of time. To their credit, Hamish Tyrwhitt and Peter Gregg have extracted a meaningful price for their surrender.

The government is telling foreign investors one thing, and the Australian public another.

The Productivity Commission finds motorists aren't paying their way, and it underestimated the costs. Could GPS location technology be the solution?