Has the Business Council of Australia got a vision for Australia? Has anyone? Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane takes Crikey editor Jason Whittaker through the business agenda. Plus should we really give a Gonski?
How to lose $25 billion in a year? You talk a big game and watch your remarkably bullish predictions fail. Eike Batista bankrolls much of Brazil, but his fortunes are on the wane.
Why is The Australian Financial Review spruiking a book by one of its writers on the death of Fairfax? There's a slew of such books coming out -- it may test Fairfax's tradition of openness.
The market didn't want a bar of Billabong's latest takeover offer. And no wonder -- the former surfwear giant might end up selling for less than it's ever traded.
The Ten Network has reported a loss of close to $300 million as the group pays the price for dud programming in late 2012.
It's not often that Stephen Mayne and Gina Rinehart agree. But they've found common ground in urging mining giant Rio Tinto, which has recently slashed its Melbourne workforce, to relocate its headquarters from London to Australia.
From what has appeared in print and from talk among brokers, there's a fear in the Murdoch camp that many investors, especially his big US supporters, don't want to be found owning a print-skewing company.
An anonymous Crikey mole managed to snag a ticket to the Institute of Public Affairs' 70th birthday party. Find out what Bolt, Murdoch, Rinehart and Abbott got up to ...
Holden claims it's giving back billions in "spill-over" benefits for the economy in return for its government subsidies. Does this stack up? And is it a good use of taxpayers' money?
