Glasses chain Oscar Wylee has been fined $3.5 million for misleading consumers about the extent of its charitable activities.

A limit of 4,000 spectators per day at this year’s Great Race is expected to have a "huge effect" on local businesses.

Millions of investors have learnt the hard way this week that bull runs do not last forever.

The price of iron ore has crashed to a 10-year low of $44.10 a tonne after a stunning 11 per cent plunge overnight.

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

"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."

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

It was a place that welcomed families in the day and prostitutes in the night. But after 41 years, and long before McDonald's and the kebab shops took hold, Perth's first 24/7 restaurant has closed its doors.

Brazil cattle prices are breaking records, abattoirs are shutting, and the ramifications for global beef markets could be huge.

Media chiefs could face renewed efforts to overturn media laws after Malcolm Turnbull seized the Liberal leadership.

ASIC says the chance of it backing a plan to rescue Planet Platinum is the same as “a snowflake in hell”.

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.

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".

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.

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.

The sacking of the ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie has brought her often challenging, sometimes tumultuous, two-year tenure at the top of the national broadcaster to an end.

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.

THE big four banks have lost their appetite to lend to greenfield toll road projects.

Qantas has gained provisional approval from the ACCC to launch more services with American Airlines between here and the US.