Oil exploration and production firm Senex Energy Ltd has posted its profits and announced a new partnership with Origin Energy in South Australia.

A new round of Trans-Pacific Partnership talks have begun in Singapore, where trade ministers from twelve nations carve out the final parts of the far-reaching deal.

Reports this week claim the Australian electricity market is at “breaking point”, and that half of all generators are losing money.

If the call is made for confidential cabinet documents to be presented to the royal commission into the ‘pink batts’ scheme, Attorney-General George Brandis says the commissioner may keep their contents a secret.

Qantas is being hounded by rumours that it will announce massive job cuts this week, but the airline says it will keep cuts down to a thousand workers at most.

Shell will sell an Australian refinery and 870 domestic service stations to Vitol in a deal worth around $2.9 billion.

The chair of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority says he wants banks to stop bullying it for its stance on capital rule adjustments.

New figures show a 7 per cent rise in National Australia Bank’s underlying profit for the first quarter.

A new research centre will use high-tech tools to investigate the history of the country’s first residents.

Some staff at the University of Western Australia will take industrial action to escalate an ongoing pay dispute.

The General Manager of the Armidale-Dumaresq Council has left early, and there are now calls for more heads to roll.

Media stirrings indicate industrial relations changes are imminent, and that new legislation will be announced soon.

The seemingly imminent repeal of the carbon tax is being prevented while Labor and the Greens hold the balance of power in the federal Senate, and new research has investigated how the efforts to end the carbon price may be hurting energy investments.

The Federal Government will investigate events at its detention centre on Manus Island, which left one asylum seeker dead and dozens wounded.

Corruption investigations have led to the director of the NSW government-owned State Water Corporation stepping down.

One of the chief figures in Australian aviation is stepping down, with CASA saying it will begin the search for a new director.

Google has dropped over a billion dollars into a range of renewable energy projects, possibly so that it can trim the power bills from its other big buys.

A series of currency transactions in 1989 have led to an $882 million government payout to media giant News Corp.

The Queensland Attorney-General wants to impose new restrictions on workers’ union safety inspectors, requiring 24 hours notice before they enter a site.

A Queensland-based firm has won the right to expand the Tonkolili iron ore mine.

More than a thousand workers have been sacked after the collapse of engineering company Forge Group, some small towns are worried for their workforce, but reports say the company has been spending-up on executive perks.

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