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Australians have until Friday to tell the government why they still think cash is important to them as the number of bank ...

Australia’s domestic investment in R&D has declined over the past 15 years, and now sits at 1.66 per cent of GDP — well below ...

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China has accused Australia of intruding into its airspace after one of its fighter jets dropped flares close to a military ...

Overall, The West Australian newspaper was solid, with a 3 per cent revenue decline (an $86m ... but there was “a reduction in labour and paper costs”. “The labour costs reduction was ...

Australia needs a revolution on tax, deregulation, energy supply and competition, not fiddling around the edges with ...

The Reserve Bank board has always done what it believes is right. But former senior officials say it hasn’t stopped ...

Attempts to undermine Kevin Rudd’s ambassadorship – from the opposition and in the Murdoch press – have been described as ‘revenge’ for his criticism of the media mogul.

Conserving and restoring Southeast Asia's carbon-rich peatlands and mangroves could mitigate more than 50 per cent of the region's land-use carbon emissions, according to a new international study.