Archived News for Executives and Senior Management - October, 2014
The Australian alpaca industry has filled its largest shipment ever.
Local firm faces fight over foreign death
An Australian mining contractor is being sued over the death of a worker in Ghana.
Miners might find little love in tax check
A Senate inquiry into alleged tax-dodging by multinational companies operating in Australia could be awkward for some mining bosses.
Big fund gets $600m cold feet over green power
Global fund managers have responded to the warnings from the renewable energy target review, seeing a write-down of Pacific Hydro for a few hundred million dollars.
Handful of votes could stop strange new world
A storm of internet activism is rising against the Australian Government’s attempt to force the mandatory retention of telecoms data.
Australia sleeping through dawn of digital money
Billions could be lost if the financial world does not embrace new technologies, one peak body has warned.
Australian archive gives some greatest hits
Australia’s massive archive of historic and contemporary recordings is celebrating its birthday, and has posted its greatest hits online to mark the occasion.
Prizes poised for undervalued count
Names have been put forward for an award to honour the top Women in Financial Services.
Study to find how bad apples rise
“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” - an old adage reinforced almost daily, but does the tendency for the vile to get ahead really exist?
Billions will swing on voters' whim
Politicians are playing a multi-billion dollar game of chicken in Victoria.
Moves to silence watchdog show it needs a voice
There are claims that the new Tasmanian Government is trying to erode the powers of the state’s corruption watchdog.
Threat looms on free ride for life
Under current entitlements, retired politicians are allowed to indulge their wanderlust and travel for free, but the lifetime gold pass could soon be revoked.
Two states' pokies laws move further apart
The ACT Government is introducing new laws to help reduce the toll pokies machines take on vulnerable gamblers, while Queensland seems to be heading the opposite way.