Jessica Stanic

Blackberry’s app store is now available to Australian and New Zealand customers, following the launch late last week.

How to work the office Christmas party to get ahead While the office Christmas party is the time of the year when companies keep their promise of making work fun, the mix of Baby Boomers, Gen X and Y can create a formula for disaster for young up-and-comers. Dominic Thurbon, leading authority on Gen Y […]

PM unveils first Australian hybrid car Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today unveiled the first Australian-built hybrid car at Toyota’s Altona plant, west of Melbourne. The new hybrid version of the Toyota Camry has a 2.4-litre engine and an electric drive motor and is said to produce 30 percent less emissions than a regular car. It […]

Interest rate will continue to rise Employment minister Julia Gillard has once again reminded Australians that interest rates will not stay at “emergency levels” forever. Gillard told ABC Television that she won’t speculate about what the RBA “may or may not do in the February board meeting” but she reiterated what the Reserve Bank governor […]

Unemployment easing, but challenges still ahead Unemployment may have fallen to 5.7 percent in December, but business leaders are warning we are not out of the woods yet and labour shortages are ahead. Australia experienced the fastest jobs growth in three years during the month of November, signaling the peak in unemployment anf sparking concerns […]

Broadband good for small business Small businesses are set to be big winners from the National Broadband Network (NBN), according to Jaye Radisich, CEO of the Council of Small Business of Australia. “Broadband will help facilitate solutions to everyday problems that small businesses face,” she said. “The NBN will help small businesses by promoting workplace […]

Jobs market rebounds The unemployment rate has defied predictions of a slump, falling to 5.7 percent, figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show. The market has forecast that the unemployment rate would rise 5.8 percent to 5.9 percent, with 15,000 jobs lost. According to the ABS, the rise in employment was driven by an […]

Australia ranks highly for internet service, but citizens not happy Australia provides the fourth best internet service in the world, yet Australians are calling for the Federal Government to invest more in internet infrastructure, a new report has found. The Servcorp International Internet Report, which questioned 7,500 business people in 24 countries, found that Australia […]

Aussie CEOs sceptical about climate change agreement As global leaders in Copenhagen meet to try and hammer out an agreement to tackle climate change on a global level, Australian CEOs and business leaders are doubtful that any deal will really affect them back home. The Executive Connection (TEC) poll of 354 Australian business leaders and […]

Credit card fraud increased by almost 30 percent in the year to June, driven by a rise in fraudulent use of credit cards on the internet, figures from the Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) reveal.