
Fire fears prompt urgent recall of popular car model
Owners of Hyundai Tucsons up to six years old have been told to park the vehicles in an open space away from...

Unions to take Qantas to High Court over COVID-19 pandemic sick leave for workers
Unions representing Qantas workers will go to the High Court seeking to overturn a ruling that employees are not entitled to sick...

More than 9000 small businesses object to ATO decisions on JobKeeper, business cash flow boost
More than 9000 small businesses have objected to the Australian Taxation Office’s (ATOs) decisions to deny them coronavirus stimulus payments including JobKeeper...

Qantas did not underpay workers by misusing the JobKeeper scheme, Federal Court finds
Qantas will no longer have to backpay hundreds of workers after the full Federal Court overturned a recent landmark decision that companies...

Australian honey, fruit, dairy and vitamin producers on ‘high alert’ over China tariffs threat
As relations between China and Australia hit their lowest point in more than half a century, industries including honey, fruit, dairy and...

Virgin Australia’s new boss Jayne Hrdlicka launches plan for revamped airline
A revamped Virgin Australia will target the “mid-market”, and there will be no nasty changes to the airline’s Velocity Frequent Flyer program...

RBA warns pandemic has made business too risk averse
The COVID-19 pandemic has left households and businesses more risk averse, Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe says, fearing that without an acceleration...

Don’t use JobKeeper to fund executive bonuses or pretend to be a loss-making business, ATO warns
Companies that get COVID-19 support payments such as the JobKeeper wage subsidy while still paying executive bonuses or increasing dividends risk damage...

Westfield locks out brand-name retailers amid rental dispute
Hundreds of workers have been stranded after shopping mall giant Westfield locked non-rent-paying retailers, including Mosaic and Strandbags, out of their stores...

More than 6500 applications for JobKeeper rejected due to ineligibility or fraud, ATO says
More than 6500 applications for JobKeeper have been rejected by the Australian Taxation Office since the program commenced, either due to ineligibility...