James Fernyhough
NBN boss backflips on higher fees for rural users
Bill Morrow, the soon-to-depart chief executive of NBN Co, has made a confusing backtrack on a plan to charge regional customers $20 more...
Why we are spending billions a year topping up Medicare
Half of Australians are spending a total of $3 billion a year topping up GP fees and other non-hospital costs that are...
Glimmer of hope as wage growth gets tiny boost
Australians waiting for a pay rise saw a glimmer of hope on Tuesday when the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed wages had...
Why the NEG will fail to address carbon emissions
The Turnbull government’s National Energy Guarantee will do almost nothing to ensure Australia meets its commitments to the Paris climate agreement, experts have...
Frydenberg attempts to guilt Labor states into supporting NEG
The Turnbull government has failed to secure unconditional support for its signature energy policy, the National Energy Guarantee, at a meeting of state...
AustralianSuper questioned on ownership of The New Daily
AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk has justified his fund’s investment in The New Daily to the banking royal commission, saying the purpose of the...
AustralianSuper grilled on investment in renewable energy company
The boss of Australia’s biggest super fund, AustralianSuper, was worried an underperforming investment in a renewable energy company would be viewed as “ideological”...
NAB grilled on decision to keep paying commissions to advisers
The National Australia Bank has been accused of putting its own interests ahead of those of its customers, in another intense and potentially damaging day...
‘Fees for no service’ scandal continues at banking royal commission
The ‘fee for no service’ scandal that trashed the reputation wealth manager AMP earlier this year looks set for a second round,...
Mortgage broking industry needs urgent reform: government report
If you use a mortgage broker, as one in two Australians buying a property does, then a new government-commissioned report has some...