Sixty radioactive cow carcasses are buried beneath land in Werribee that the Andrews government is trying to sell to a Chinese consortium keen to build a $20-billion dollar education precinct.

Gerard Fogarty knew early on that school wasn't his forte, but it took him quite a while to realise that the Australian Defence Force was.

"The game investors should be focusing on is who could win and who could lose," says Andrew Macken ahead of US President Donald Trump's congressional address.

In an entertaining annual letter the legendary investor lets fly and high fee gouging money managers.

It turns out Christopher Pyne was right: Julia Gillard's version of the Gonski school funding reform was indeed "Conski".

Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe has dashed hopes of a further cut in interest rates, pleading for people to "focus on other things other than quarter of a per cent moves in the cash rate".

This is interesting: the Fair Work Commission has pretty much agreed with the Productivity Commission's recommendations on penalty rates, so penalty rates should be sharply higher for everyone on shift work.

The chief executive of Mercer, one of Australia's biggest super fund administrators, has urged small funds to merge with bigger funds or risk folding in the next 12 months.

Ahmed Fahour is stepping out the door at Australia Post in July, but it will take another decade for the organisation to deliver his final package.

You can finally check when you will get the NBN and what sort of technology you will be receiving.

The Turnbull Government proposed company tax cut would cut national income for years before it boosted it and would never be self-funding, a new analysis from the Grattan Institute has found.

All high income Australians would pay the 1 to 1.5 per cent Medicare Levy Surcharge under a budget proposal that would raise a breathtaking $4 billion per year, more than 6 times the net amount saved in the first Turnbull budget.

It is the battle between a businessman who lost a billion-dollar birthright and his family, who didn't.

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil is moving to cast off the last shackles of government influence at iron-ore giant Vale SA -- but not before replacing the CEO with someone more politically palatable.

Investors are losing patience with Cromwell in its battle for control of the $2.7 billion Investa Office Fund, with some saying it its getting to the "unreasonable" level.

Australian retailers are se to face a new entrant with many South African-based brands now discovering that there is a new market near their door step, with a similar climate, time zone and consumer outlook.

Strong earnings results from reporting companies failed to stem the tide of a falling market, the big miners and the bigger banks pulling the index into the red.

Australia could record its first current account surplus since the mid-1970s this year, economists say.

Shares slide again despite big gains in QBE, Aristocrat and Lendlease after their profit reports, as waning enthusiasm for the Trump trade drags on big banks and miners.

There are several takeaways from Warren Buffett's letter to shareholders for Australian investors.