MORE than 60 per cent of Australians believe the safety standards of Qantas have slipped, according to a poll released on the same day as another incident involving the national carrier
FEDERAL Treasurer Wayne Swan says the extraordinary move by the Reserve Bank of Australia to slash the official cash rate by one percentage point was the right thing to do
THE cost of writedowns for financial institutions with exposure to the US mortgage market is expected to blow out to $US1.4 trillion ($A1.97 trillion), according to the latest International Monetary Fund estimates
THE Australian dollar was lower at noon as the crisis in financial markets, falling commodity prices and an imminent interest rate cut from the local central bank caused investors to abandon the high-yielding currency
EXPORTS from Rio Tinto`s massive Pilbara iron ore operations will be hampered by strikes starting this Saturday, when train drivers will walk off the job, a union says
Devastated ... the orphaned Gauci children Bethany, 5, Tamara, 14, Cassandra, 16, Joshua, 8 and Alexandra, 11 have been told their father killed their mother, then himself.
