What happened to the the job of "paid companion" or "inspector of nuisances" recorded in Australia's first national census in 1911?

Australia is on the cusp of achieving something truly remarkable – not to mention unprecedented in modern world history. It will be worth celebrating.

Warning signs are starting to appear as investors look beyond the now all-but-confirmed March US interest rate increase.

Former Liberal Party treasurer Michael Yabsley joins call for Royal Commission into the banks.

The machines helps users worldwide create 1.5 billion litres of sparkling water a year.

China set a slightly lower economic growth target for this year as the country's lawmakers began their annual meeting on Sunday.

BHP and Rio Tinto helped pull the sharemarket back from early losses on Monday, a welcome reverse of last week's falls.

Although iron ore's price gains defied predictions in 2016, many analysts now believe new supply, high inventories, and insufficient demand are setting iron ore up for sharp losses in the second half of this year.

Shares overcome a weak start to finish the session higher as investors jump into miners following the weekend's National People's Congress in China, while Navitas is smashed after an earnings downgrade.

A complaint about a Bakers Delight billboard "advertising lollies on bread for school lunches" has been upheld.

A $650 million revamp of Melbourne's popular Queen Victoria Market is "at risk" because the state government hasn't approved key planning guidelines covering its development, Melbourne's Lord Mayor says.

Singapore-based investors have snapped up the 396-room Hilton South Wharf hotel in Melbourne for $230 million in the biggest hotel deal so far this year.

Macroeconomic events have largely driven market sentiment in recent years, however some quant traders are now betting on a return to fundamentals.

Vicinty Centres is considering replacing some of its cleaning contractors with robots in a bid to automate and save costs, according to one of the company's non-executive directors, Wai Tang.

Online female fashion retailers Shakuhachi and Popcherry have landed on the most recent consumer complaints register.

Slater and Gordon's top brass holding shares in the troubled law firm once worth more than $150 million are preparing to take a major bath as the company works to push through a deal to avoid receivership.

Billionaire Gina Rinehart has expanded her footprint in the agricultural sector, buying another cattle station in the Northern Territory.

The former chairman of the NSW Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority has alluded to a potentially dangerous prospect for Crown Resorts.

It could have once been a stretch of the imagination of Queensland Bauxite shareholders to think that they could be treated to crop updates from the Northern NSW hippie paradise of Nimbin.

Cream, cheese and butter are seldom used in commercial Chinese kitchens. Now dairy exporters like Fonterra are working to change that.