December 2018
Tumblr's porn ban raises questions on art and sexuality on prudish platforms
Australian artists and educators are questioning why their content is being treated the same as illegal porn by web giants.
August 2016
Greg Hunt warns industries not to expect handouts
Industry Minister Greg Hunt has warned struggling industries against expecting taxpayer-funded rescue packages.
March 2016
SMSF sector growing but watching budget with interest
Australia's self-managed super fund (SMSF) sector continues to break records even as trustees brace themselves for potential wide-ranging legislative changes in the next Budget.
February 2016
Online traders seeing market volatility as opportunity, not threat
Volatile market conditions are taking their toll on portfolios, refocusing investors' minds on their asset mix.
China's love of Australian horses providing big boost for breeding industry
Australia's reputation as a producer of quality thoroughbreds continues to draw huge interest from overseas buyers, with China leading the way.
Agriculture goes vertical as buildings become the new farms
Aerofarming, also known as vertical or 'skyscraper' farming, is a futuristic model of indoor farming taking off in warehouses in cities in Japan, the US and Singapore.
Agriculture degree programs on the rise at universities
The number of farmers in Australia might have fallen dramatically over the past two decades but agricultural degrees are back in vogue.
Agribusinesses link to NBN as farms become more high tech
Amidst the rolling pastures of Armidale, NSW sits a state-of-the-art "farmhouse", inside which trainee farmers sit glued to mounted screens tracking fluorescent dots across digital paddocks.
Many start-up agribusinesses forced to go to US for early stage funding
Many young agribusiness entrepreneurs are forced to head to the US for financial backing
GRDC focusing on public-private partnerships
Chairman of the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), a leading government research organisation in the Australian grains industry, Richard Clark said his organisation would continue to provide a bigger 'bang for bucks' for the farmers whose levies form a key part of the GRDC budget.
Agricultural output soars as technology takes over
The "innovation" economy and its highly-prized reward – productivity – has a new frontier: agriculture – and the terrain is vast.
November 2015
LOGOS take Brazil's site in Brisbane for $50m
Macquarie-backed LOGOS Property Group has snapped up the largest industrial land deal in Queensland this year paying about $50 million for private investor Lyn Brazil's last strategic parcel on the Logan motorway.
September 2015
Australian sharemarket could be set for rebound
Recent falls in the ASX have made many Australian stocks attractive but investors might have missed the boat on investing overseas, CMC says.
Robotic could replace human touch
'Robo advice' is becoming mainstream now experts say the algorithms already manage $19 billion in assets.
Flourishing in a low interest rate, low dollar environment
Investors are facing a prolonged period of low interest rates and declining currencies, not just in the domestic market but around the world. As ever, these dynamics will be positive for some asset classes and less so for others.
Gen Ys need to get their saving act together
It seems unbelievable, but the first of the Gen Ys – people born after 1977 and before 1995 – are on the cusp of turning 40. Many have mortgages, kids and commitments. As they head into middle age, now's the time to start thinking about their retirement savings.
Producing returns over time
Investment success is often defined in radically different ways by wealth managers and their investors. The divide all too often leaves investors with unfulfilled expectations and the industry's reputation as collateral damage.
Long-term infrastructure returns appeal to global investors
A short-term outlook may not have done investing in public infrastructure any favours, but bankers are discovering there is a strong appetite overseas for long-term returns.
Playing politics with the RET
If the reset of Australia's renewable energy target (RET) in June was intended to give investors certainty, it is not delivering. Industry watchers say the major problem is that the RET – and the renewables sector in general – has become inherently politicised.
Chinese economy much more than its sharemarket
Of all the economic themes competing for status as drivers of the global economy, one of the clear gold-medal favourites is the Chinese slowdown.