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Financial advisers beware; the federal government is about to embark on an overhaul of the financial advice sector, placing a new emphasis on consumer protection.

Intellectual Property laws are often critiqued as a protectionist system that limits innovation and cross-company collaboration.

The Storm’s fall from grace has made some NRL sponsors nervous, with fears the salary cap rorting may extend across more teams.

The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) is leading a trade mission to Shanghai in July this year, the first of its kind following successful missions to Hong Kong and New York.

The Queensland Government has announced the board which will take Queensland Rail through the process of an IPO to gain listing on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).

Real Estate Agents have been hit hard in by the ‘Most Trusted Professions’ study by readers Digest, coming out behind Sex Workers, Professional Footballers and CEO’s.

What do you do on a lazy Sunday afternoon, read the Sunday paper of course!

And this week end once I reminisced over the contribution the ANZACS made to Australian history and then ploughed through the analysis of the Melbourne Storm debacle, I found an article called: ‘We’d pay to do less work.’

After seven years in a consultancy I have had some time to think about this and I am going out on a limb and say what you are not meant to say if you are in an agency – I think it is time someone developed a code of conduct on how clients should treat their agency and this is why.

NSW Labor’s Kristina Keneally is dominating the Liberal’s Barry O’Farrell as preferred premier for the state, but seems destined to be a popular leader of a losing party if the latest Newspoll numbers hold true.

Australia is set to continue its strong resources lead economic recovery, returning to levels of prosperity not seen since the beginning of 2008. At least for resource rich states like Queensland and Western Australia concludes the latest Business Outlook report from Access Economics.

Expense Reduction Analysts Australia, a leading cost-reduction and procurement consultancy, announced today it expects to save Australian clients more than $3.2 million in 2010.

Domain Hosting Shop Tuesday announced the commercial release of their revolutionary new e-commerce software, Spiffy Stores.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has authorised arrangements to transfer specified amounts of coal handling capacity from the Barney Point coal terminal to the proposed Wiggins Island terminal at the Port of Gladstone in Queensland.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has reauthorised certain regulations governing the operation of the Australian Paper Clearing System.

A new, high-tech training, meetings and function centre housed at the International Visualisation Centre (the IVC), in the heart of Adelaide’s media precinct, brings together the latest in presentation technology within a historic space on Young Street.

Barring a shock collapse in world sharemarkets, superannuation fund members can look forward to a positive return this financial year – the first time since 2006/07.

Clearswift, the software security company, has unveiled new global research outlining the latest business adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in Australia, the US, UK and Germany.

The Federal Court in Perth last week handed down its final orders in the long running Western Australian air conditioning cartel case which had involved bid-rigging and price fixing on projects valued at over $100 million.

Recent surveys of Australian businesses show that as many as 20 per cent of companies have female founders with another 13 per cent officially listed as owners.

The Federal Court Tuesday declared that Mailpost founder Peter Kritas and NSW master franchisor, Mailpost Postie Network Pty Ltd (MPNS), engaged in conduct that contravened the Trade Practices Act 1974.