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Isentia braces for poorer-than-expected results in wake of King Content fiasco

Isentia probably should not have bought King Content in retrospect -- though the company swears it was a good idea at the time.

What happens when Warren Buffett dies? The answer's not reassuring.

The control of Australia's insurance market wielded by Warren Buffett's General Re makes his continuing health a subject of real import for the Australian financial system, write Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane.

News Corp's print figures looking more like obituary

With the release of News Corp's financial figures it is becoming clear that in print news is on the decline. How long can it last subsidised by the digital real estate arm of the corporation?

2019 Rich Lister James Packer

Don't bet against it: Packer still at home in the casino business

With the release of the last of his imprisoned employees in China, Packer has learned from his errors and is again refocusing Crown towards the future.

Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe

CBA v the regulators: the questions that need to be asked

We need to hear from the other financial regulators who knew what and when about the CBA money-laundering scandal, Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane write.

That was then, this is now: Martin Ferguson's head-spinning 180 on union power

Martin Ferguson used to be a unionist and a Labor stalwart. So what's he doing shilling for the mining industry and saying unions have too much power?

Remember when the CBA boss lectured unions about leadership best practice?

The Business Council is happy to rail at unions and demand transparency and leadership -- until it applies to their own members, write Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer.

Parasitic mining industry won't stop bleeding Australia dry

The mining lobby wants a new round of punitive industrial relations reforms, at a time when real wages are falling in the sector and productivity booming. But that's the way neoliberalism operates.

Yes, the 'Widowmaker' Osprey aircraft is dangerous -- to its pilots and crew

The Osprey would never meet any of the civilian safety and certification standards of an aircraft anywhere in the world. That doesn't mean we should ban it from flying over Australia.

CommBank can't spin its way out of money laundering crisis

The Commonwealth Bank is chalking up ignoring a massive amount of money laundering to "lessons learnt". That is not even close to good enough, write Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane.