Suffering from 60 years of population decline, the ambitious Queensland town of Hughenden plans to attract more agricultural investors in order to bolster the district's economy.

Documents show the Victorian government said changing suppliers would lead to cost blowouts and delays.

The West Australian government hopes the final closure of an asbestos-riddled town will at last deter social media influencers and 'danger tourists' from visiting.

OIL giant ExxonMobil has lowered the prospects for development of a Victorian coal-seam gas industry.

Woodside needs to raise its bid for Oil Search to have any chance of success, analysts at UBS have said.

INVESTORS who ploughed funds into international shares are set for another year of double-digit returns.

Three people are charged in connection with an alleged million-dollar gold theft in Western Australia's Goldfields, in which police say more than 8,000 tonnes of gold-bearing ore was stolen.

Queensland's books are expected be back in black within the next four years, with Treasurer Cameron Dick predicting the state will return to a $153 million surplus by mid-2025.

Single parents will be given federal government assistance to purchase property, under measures included in Tuesday's budget.

The collapse of one of the nation's oldest engineering companies, RCR Tomlinson, has destroyed Christmas for thousands of families, according to the union dealing with the fallout from the unexpected job losses.

AUSTRALIAN consumers are the gloomiest they have been in three years, survey data released this morning shows.

The Indonesian Government is reportedly looking to Mexico as an alternate source of live cattle, after Australian cattle hit record prices and Jakarta meat sellers go on strike.

JOHN Wylie will step down at year’s end as head of Lazard Advisory in Australia to be replaced by ­Andrew Leyden and Lachlan ­Edwards.

The local share market is closed for Australia Day, while rising COVID-19 cases and delays in supplying vaccines have offset Wall Street's optimism about a potential $US1.9 trillion ($2.46 trillion) stimulus package that the Biden administration is trying to pass.

THE global chief executive of News Corp says print advertising has become even more valuable in a “digitally discursive age”.

THE most powerful CEOs in America believe that people management will be one of the most important issues next year.

With unprecedented support from global governments, the stock market has boomed, driving up billionaire's wealth even while the real economy has faced the deepest recession in a century and the poor have gotten poorer.

A key measure of wage growth has disappointed again with most Australian workers' pay failing to grow in real terms.

AUSTRALIAN online retail foreign exchange broker Pepperstone has abandoned plans for an imminent IPO after the Swiss uncapping.

South-east Queensland drivers filling up their tanks this weekend will be paying the highest prices of all the capital cities in Australia for unleaded petrol, with the fuel cycle showing although prices are slow to rise, they are even slower to come down again.

Former Boeing test pilot Mark Forkner was found not guilty of deceiving federal regulators about a key flight-control system that played a role in two deadly crashes involving 737 MAX jets.

360 Capital Group has taken another step towards launching a takeover play for Allan Fife’s Australian Industrial REIT.

Advertising spending contributes about $40 billion a year to the Australian economy, or 2 per cent of GDP.

Former engineering high flyer Ausenco has become the latest mining services company to be swallowed by private equity.

A COMPANY spruiking luxury Redfern apartments claimed Aboriginal people have “moved out” of the Sydney suburb.