Approximately $15 million in donations was disclosed by donors, a small proportion of parties' total funding.
The Liberal Party received $95 million in funding across its eight separate divisions, which includes donations and other receipts...
The 'great Australian silence' 50 years on
Detail from Julie Shiels’ 1954 poster White on black: The annihilation of Aboriginal people and their culture cannot be separated from the destruction of nature.
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Anna...
If the Department of Agriculture paid 2,500% above the average price for water in the Lower Darling, there appears to be one clear loser — the Australian taxpayer. Mark Zanker reports.
Nationals leader and acting PM brushes off suggestions...
New regulations expose energy price gouging through 'free' comparison sites
Consumers who used comparison sites typically paid 5-12% more than the lowest possible offer.
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Bruce Mountain, Victoria University
A new regulation has highlighted the...
What the bank bosses had to say at the royal commission, in language you can understand
In the commission’s interim report released in September, Commissioner Kenneth Hayne said the regulators had sufficient powers to police their...
Here's a tip that could make banks phenomenally successful: radical honesty
Radical honesty works, but it is difficult.
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Louise Metcalf, Macquarie University
Appearing before the banking royal commission, the newly appointed head of the Commonwealth Bank, Matt...
Banking Royal Commission's damning report: 'Things are so bad that new laws might not help'
Peter Martin, The Conversation
Royal Commissioner Kenneth Hayne has identified “greed” as the key reason banks and other financial institutions repeatedly...
Fairfax has a charter of editorial independence, which all owners since 1990 have signed up to. Will Nine sign up to it? Will the charter have any meaning when the newspapers are owned by...