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A suburban RSL makes it into the AFR's top 500 companies

With a company that specialises in boxes, a CD store, and a baking brand ranking higher than Football Federation Australia, this year's list is a real Thermomixed bag.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg (Image: AAP/James Ross)

The GDP is in the gutter — expect the rest of the economy to follow

It's increasingly evident that we've reelected a PM and government who have delivered the slowest economic growth in a decade. Not that you'd know it from listening to them.

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How do you get a whole country back to the shops?

Australia's latest retail figures are in, and it doesn't look good. The government needs to throw one hell of a sale.

Don't be fooled by a temporary boost — the Australian economy is stagnating

If forecasts from most economists are right, annual growth for 2018-19 could be the slowest since 2009, or worse still, since 2000.

Smoke from the Amazon forest during a fire in Brazil, 23 August 2019. (Image: EPA/Joedson Alves)

The Amazon is on fire. What can the world do?

The G7's aid offering was never going to work in Brazil ⁠— a place where national pride and claims about lost sovereignty are political dynamite.

Witness K's lawyer Bernard Collaery (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

What Four Corners left out of the Witness K story

Four Corners got the facts straight on how the Witness K scandal was born, but there is more to the story.

Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg (Image: AAP/Bianca De Marchi)

Josh among the business barbarians

When Frydenberg forced the question of why businesses aren't investing in Australia, a convenient amnesia seemed to take over.

The future of Seven West Media could soon be decided

The biggest question in Australian media could soon have an answer, with one of the smartest men in the industry set to oversee the future of Seven West Media.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg (Image: AAP/James Ross)

Frydenberg sees the light on tax, but provides little leadership

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has acknowledge that Australian business would simply waste tax cuts on share buybacks and increased dividends. But he's otherwise not sure how to raise our flagging productivity.

US President Donald Trump and wife Melania (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

Trump's tantrum highlights the reality that he's an economic wrecker

Donald Trump is wrecking shareholder wealth with his wild attacks on his own appointees and an increasingly aggressive trade war with China.