Ten years after the court case that forced asbestos manufacturer James Hardie to face up to the consequences of its deadly product, the company is accused of again playing hardball with victims.

Global markets traded cautiously ahead of trade talks between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, at the G20 summit in Japan.

Construction on Sydney's newest city centre will begin before the end of the year, with the NSW government releasing first images of how it will look.

A case where a woman with dementia was able to take out $100,000, and another where $60,000 was withdrawn to fund a gambling binge are among seven instances of suspected financial abuse in Darwin in just five months.

AUSTRALIA’S sharemarket is on track for its biggest two-day gain in a year after a rally led by resources and financial stocks.

AGL Energy boss Andy Vesey says the company needs to adapt if it is to thrive amid the disruption to power markets.

Lachlan Murdoch has unveiled a new management team to drive News Corp Australia’s Asian expansion.

Chinese stocks moved into positive territory in wildly volatile trading as Beijing took new measures to avert a crash.

A plan to slug foreign property buyers with a 7 per cent surcharge to aid the recovery of WA's budget will damage the recovery of the state's fragile property market, a real estate peak body warns.

The new head of the Australian Bankers Association, Anna Bligh, takes a swipe at banks meddling with the corporate regulator's press releases about banks' bad behaviour.

Seventeen staff members and two former employees of Crown Resorts will face trial in a Shanghai district court today, eight months after being detained for alleged gambling crimes.

The Australian share market is due to open higher, while China's manufacturing industry sees solid growth, and Donald Trump will promote US gas on Russia's backyard.

Sydney has lost nearly 20 per cent of its essential workers in the past decade because of the city's housing affordability crisis, a report finds.

Work is suspended at a central Queensland coal mine after a man died when a wall collapsed and trapped him inside the digger he was using. The incident is the third fatal accident in six months.

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