The government expected to raise an additional $2.4 billion over four years thanks to changes to the tax on oil and gas profits. It is now predicting it will raise $4 billion less over that same time.

"We always want the world to stop and pause for different problems, but it keeps going, so you've just got to keep going and try and look at things as positive as you can."

As the nation's population ages, many people are looking to at-home care and even living with housemates.

SUPER funds are forecast to end 2014 up by between five and eight per cent — less than half last year’s return.

APA Group has made the second biggest Australian acquisition of the year, snaring BG Group’s Queensland coal-seam gas pipeline.

The ASX has bounced back to close slightly firmer, as surprisingly strong employment figures rallied sentiment.

Prime Ministers Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson reach an in-principle agreement for a free trade deal between Australia and the United Kingdom.

The ABC confirms the university, which rakes in about $16.5 billion in revenue each year and is ranked the 11th best school in the US, received the payments while Australian public universities missed out.

A pact with the bloc was "about building economic resilience in a rapidly changing global environment," Don Farrell said.

CLIVE Palmer has suffered another defeat in his ongoing legal war with China’s Citic.

CHINESE manufacturing has contracted for the first time in seven months in December, raising questions over growth prospects for the giant economy.

THE Alex Waislitz-backed listed payday lender Money3 is raising $20m to purchase the assets of PAID, an online provider of credit products.

Ockert Le Roux is one of the Limestone Coast's most in-demand photographers, but he's never had a formal lesson, works in forestry full-time and takes 20 per cent of photos on his phone.

A remote pastoral station in Western Australia is attracting firearms enthusiasts from around the world who are keen to spend time in the outback shooting high-calibre rifles.

The Rockpool Dining Group says it is "keen to resolve" payroll issues as it contacts workers to top-up their salaries after an audit found they were owed $1.6 million in wages.

Indonesia's transport safety agency says investigators have successfully downloaded information from the flight data recorder (FDR) of the Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea last week.

The federal opposition says some workers are underpaid and exploited but farmers argue piece rates drive productivity and a minimum wage won't drive out "rogue operators".

Tamworth councillors, including two former Nationals heavyweights, want more detail on the proposed new Dungowan Dam, but Barnaby Joyce says he just wants the project built.

A real estate agent who tried to blackmail one of Australia's biggest banks into paying a $25,000 ransom for reams of confidential documents it left behind in a defunct branch narrowly avoids jail.

Liverpool's burgeoning population lives just 26 kilometres from Sydney's CBD, and on a good day a train trip can take just under an hour, but experts say it could be faster. NSW Transport disagrees.