Queensland coal mines 'named and shamed' over dust monitoring failures
Two of Glencore and Anglo's underground coal mines in central Queensland risk closure after allegedly failing to meet dust-monitoring obligations.
View ArticleASIC to investigate CBA over money-laundering scandal
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will investigate the Commonwealth Bank's handling of suspicions its intelligent deposit machines were used by money launderers and criminal gangs.
View ArticleBlack lung patients slam 'disgraceful' coal mines over dust-monitoring failure
People diagnosed with black lung lash out at global miners Glencore and Anglo American after the Government threatened to close four underground coal mines in central Queensland for failing to meet...
View ArticleCBA unveils more ways it's failing its own customers and staff
Days after the nation's top financial regulators demand greater transparency and focus on customers not sales, the Commonwealth Bank drops a list systemic failures it is trying to fix and refund.
View ArticleUp to one-in-two Takata 'Alpha' airbags could fail, Choice warns
As many as one-in-two cars with Takata's older 'Alpha' model airbags have a defect that could cause serious injury or death, consumer group Choice warns.
View ArticleBlueScope doubles profit but warns of rising energy costs, cartel investigation
Australian steel manufacturer BlueScope announces a surge in net profit, but also warns high and rising energy costs pose an ongoing challenge as does an ACCC investigation into alleged cartel conduct.
View ArticleQueensland's new trading hours laws keep state in 'dark ages'
Amended trading hours will see 21 regional areas in Queensland banned from applying to have big supermarkets open on Sundays for the next five years, and shopping centres opening an hour later.
View ArticlePolice Commissioner apologises after law breach for Prince Frederik
Queensland's Police Commissioner apologises to "anyone who was at Jade Buddha" after officers breached the state's new liquor laws to allow Prince Frederik of Denmark into the Brisbane bar without...
View ArticleNo problem with Murdoch-Gordon Ten takeover, says ACCC
The competition watchdog announces that it will not oppose a proposed bid for the Ten Network by current shareholders Bruce Gordon and Lachlan Murdoch.
View ArticleNBN admits customers in new properties facing 'unacceptable' delays
The company rolling out the NBN is reviewing the way it connects newly built properties to the network after conceding customers are facing "unacceptable" and "lengthy" delays.
View ArticleAussie founder Symond says banking royal commission 'on the cards'
Aussie Home Loans founder John Symond, one of the Commonwealth Bank's biggest shareholders, says he is "shocked and disappointed" about CBA's money laundering scandal, which increases the chances of a...
View Article'A shocking attack': Hairdressers' penalty rates face the chop
The campaign to wind back award wages moves into the beauty industry, a move unions say it could cost hairdressers almost $4,500 a year from their average $32,000 salary.
View ArticleAustralian high-rises swathed in flammable cladding despite suppliers knowing...
More than a decade before the deadly Grenfell tower fire in London, Australian suppliers of aluminium composite cladding knew the product they were selling was highly flammable.
View ArticleCBA will take months to answer money laundering allegations
It could take the Commonwealth Bank up to three months to file its defence to allegations that it breached money laundering laws on more than 53,000 occasions.
View ArticleQueensland unit owners may face multi-million-dollar bills to rip out...
Queenslanders living in body corporate-run apartment blocks could be forced to pay for new safety audits and pick up multi-million-dollar tabs for ripping out combustible cladding in buildings...
View ArticleMore than 5,000 buildings in Victoria 'may contain non-compliant cladding'
Planning and fire experts say there may be more than 5,000 buildings in Victoria that contain non-compliant cladding, similar to that used on the Grenfell tower in London.
View ArticleACCC accuses JJ Richards over rubbish contracts with small businesses
The contracts offered to small businesses by big waste management firm JJ Richards will become a test case for new ACCC powers.
View ArticleBanks warned over default risk from $500b in 'liar loan' mortgages
Up to a third of Australian mortgages could be "liar loans" based on inaccurate information, warns investment bank UBS, raising the risk of widespread home loan defaults if the housing market suffers a...
View ArticleNew laws to target dodgy company directors and 'phoenixing'
Directors of Australian companies will be given a unique ID number in a bid to crack down on "phoenixing", where companies are stripped of assets and liquidated, then restarted under a different name,...
View ArticleCartel accusations fly as gas industry insists NT fracking would cut national...
Battle lines are drawn between the gas industry and its critics over whether allowing fracking to resume in the Northern Territory could help solve the east coast energy price crisis.
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