12:00AM | Michael Vaughan | The Australian Financial Review
The mining town of Broken Hill in western NSW is about to feel the full brunt of the downturn in base metal prices as more than 450 jobs - or almost two-thirds of the workers at the silver, lead and zinc mine - are to be axed.
12:00AM | Louise Dodson National affairs writer | The Australian Financial Review
The High Court is strongly independent and does not divide along political lines, retiring Chief Justice Murray Gleeson said yesterday at the end of his 10-year appointment.
12:00AM | John Kerin | The Australian Financial Review
Watchdog agencies warned yesterday that federal government funding cuts had forced them to cut back on crucial oversight programs.
12:00AM | Matthew Drummond | The Australian Financial Review
Trevor Kennedy is making a final effort to have the Tax Office explain how it obtained correspondence with his Swiss lawyer by filing an appeal to the High Court.
12:00AM | Adrian Rollins Economics correspondent | The Australian Financial Review
Demand for skilled workers has fallen to its lowest level in 10 years in a sign that the labour market is softening as the economy slows, raising the risk of an increase in unemployment.
12:00AM | John Kerin with AAP | The Australian Financial Review
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was embarrassed yesterday by a departmental briefing note that described New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark as a control freak who had foreign policy views forged during the Vietnam War.
02:28AM | Steven Scott | The Australian Financial Review
Employers who underpay wages or threaten workers could face greater scrutiny under new federal regulations.
02:29AM | Sue Mitchell | The Australian Financial Review
Coca-Cola Amatil chief executive Terry Davis is targeting acquisitions worth more than $800 million.
02:29AM | Brett Clegg, James Chessell and Jemima Whyte | The Australian Financial Review
Gunns will announce a major capital raising as soon as today to shore up its balance sheet.
12:00AM | Duncan Hughes | The Australian Financial Review
Australian car safety standards are lower than those in the United States, Europe and Japan because governments have failed to revise "outdated" rules under pressure from cost-cutting manufacturers, a year-long Victorian parliamentary inquiry has found.
12:00AM | Robert Guy | The Australian Financial Review
West Australian Premier Alan Carpenter has declared that the result of the state's election on September 6 is on a "knife-edge" and has urged voters not to take a risk on an "underprepared" opposition.
12:00AM | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
The resale royalty on secondary art sales that the Rudd government plans to introduce next year could be significantly hobbled because of the constitution.
12:00AM | John Breusch | The Australian Financial Review
Big energy users have backed the federal opposition's stance on nuclear power, arguing it makes no sense to rule out a proven source of base-load electricity while the prospects for clean coal or geothermal generation are unclear.
12:00AM | Lisa Allen with AAP | The Australian Financial Review
The major political parties in Queensland both say new electoral boundaries released yesterday will make it harder to fight the state poll in 2009.
12:00AM | John Kerin | The Australian Financial Review
Australia's most complex shipbuilding project will deliver three ships - and $24 billion in support work, writes John Kerin.
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
The destroyer USS John S McCain arrives in Sydney Harbour yesterday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great White Fleet, an armada of 16 battleships sent around the world by former US president Theodore Roosevelt in 1907-09
12:00AM | Tracy Ong | The Australian Financial Review
Morris Iemma faces his day of reckoningon electricity, writes Tracy Ong.
12:00AM | AAP | The Australian Financial Review
Million for disabled
12:00AM | Duncan Hughes and Mark Fenton-Jones | The Australian Financial Review
Desalination in clear
12:00AM | Marsha Jacobs | The Australian Financial Review
High Court judge Michael Kirby has called for courts in tax cases to be more active in looking beyond the documents of a transaction and into the parties' intentions.
12:00AM | Julian Bajkowski | The Australian Financial Review
The Reserve Bank of Australia has initiated talks with online auction giant eBay's payments subsidiary, PayPal, to seek the removal of a number of alleged anti-competitive transaction rules.
12:00AM | Mark Skulley | The Australian Financial Review
Telstra's three unions have served formal bargaining notices on the giant telco, as the labour movement ramps up legal strategies in response to big companies increasingly making use of non-union collective agreements.
12:00AM | Tracy Ong and Mark Skulley | The Australian Financial Review
Labor's hopes of establishing a national workplace regime covering all Australian workers has been put in doubt after a landmark court ruling that councils - and potentially other not-for-profit organisations such as charities - are to remain under state industrial laws.
12:00AM | Duncan Hughes | The Australian Financial Review
A culture of looking after "mates", backhanders and sloppy financial records has been exposed by a Victorian ombudsman's investigation into procurement practices for non-clinical goods and services at state hospitals.
12:00AM | Julian Bajkowski | The Australian Financial Review
The head of the Australian Public Service Commission, the authority charged with upholding the independence and integrity of Canberra's 150,000 federal bureaucrats, has accused the media of being responsible for the defensive state of freedom of information laws in Australia.
12:00AM | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
Sponsorship, philanthropic and box office income are hard-won in the Northern Territory, where festival organisers hope to create more work for export, writes Katrina Strickland.
12:00AM | Edited by: kstrickland@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
Sydney
12:00AM | Peter Ruehl | The Australian Financial Review
Nearly two years ago, the Liberal Party was toast
The US appears to be putting its houses - Fannie and Freddie - in order, writes Glenn Mumford.
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