Consumers' increased focus on fitness and wellbeing — as well as fears of new taxes and regulation — is challenging the Australian confectionary industry to make healthier products.

Are large parts of regional Australia doomed to fail or can years of decline be turned around to create a brighter future?

Increased taxes on properties are making South Australia even less attractive to investors according to the Property Council of Australia, amid worries surrounding the local housing industry.

Jony Ive, known for shaping Apple's signature rounded, stylish designs is leaving the company after more than two decades, to start his own design firm.

A dispute over royalties paid by mining giant BHP to the WA Government is settled with a one-off payment of $250 million, most of which will help fund a new maternity hospital in Perth.