Australia has kicked off 2015 with a soft economy, a weakened dollar and a host of challenges facing its big corporate sectors. BusinessDay looks at the year to come.

Investors in failed managed investment scheme Great Southern face bankruptcy and losing their homes in the weeks following Christmas, after a Supreme Court approved a $23 million settlement between investors and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank.

It is rare for one man to triumph against the establishment, especially when he has taken on a major insolvency firm and one of the country’s blue chip law firms.

Sliding prices for BHP's prime commodities are challenging the case for the "South32" demerger.

Central banker of the world's fastest growing economy says it's time to get moving.

The Telstra outage that left tens of thousands of customers' without NBN and ADSL services last week was caused by a faulty software update, the telecommunications giant has revealed.

'Tis the season for outlooks, so amid a flood of worrying to outright gloomy forecasts for the coming year, Saxo Bank has once again flagged its most "outrageous predictions" for global markets.

A relatively flat week on the ASX belied some dramatic moves as a busy five days of earnings results revealed some big winners and losers.

The federal government is locking in a wholesale price cap on internet services providers looking to take on the NBN Co with their own high-speed rollout.

The superjumbo may not be around for long anymore, with airlines preferring smaller, more fuel-efficient planes and not placing a single order this year.

Westpac has become the latest big listed company - and the first bank - to be targeted by a shareholder campaign on business lobby groups amid Australia's long-running and vexed climate policy debate.

Vladimir Putin’s announcement that Russia will invoice gas buyers in “unfriendly countries” in roubles is either tactical genius or just a stunt that might backfire. It’s most likely the latter.

Geoff Wilson is used to making big calls but this time he admits he's feeling the heat.

Extortion, blackmail, cash back scams and slavery are happening every day under our noses.

Fairfax Media and John Singleton's Macquarie Radio network are very close to finalising a $200 million talkback radio merger, less than a year after talks collapsed in bitter circumstances.