In 2013, Anthony Levandowski was the star of Google's self-driving car project. The tall, swaggering engineer was featured in a long New Yorker story about the search engine willing the impossible technology into reality.

Wildlife prices are tumbling in South Africa, as game breeders are squeezed by restrictions imposed on trophy hunting following the killing of Cecil the lion in 2015.

Australia's biggest retailers are expected to seize on the landmark cut to Sunday penalty rates to push forward new wage deals covering hundreds of thousands of workers.

Australia's economy is held back because wages are too low, not too high.

Single mother Sharon Eurlings has worked Sunday shifts for more than 20 years to help pay the bills and get care for her children.

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.