Duncan Evans

Queensland mining minister Dale Last has sidestepped shock speculation that mining giant BHP could sell off parts of its troubled $10bn coal empire.

A senior planner at a local Victorian council has lost his bid to work at the office just one day a week, with the workplace tribunal ruling his seniority and experience meant his employer could demand that he spend more time on site to pass on his knowledge to younger workers.

A longstanding trucking business that boasted more than 27 years in business has collapsed and will likely be stripped and sold off, administrators have confirmed.

A multimillion-dollar legal fight between a NSW paralegal and her husband has spectacularly imploded, leaving her confronting a possible criminal probe for a set of allegedly fake documents presented at trial.

The director of a renewable energy research program has been labelled “abhorrent”, fined nearly $200,000 and convicted of a criminal offence for a devastating toxic gas exposure that left a scientist with permanent brain damage.

Confectionery giant Mars Australia has been forced to reinstate a veteran leader of its Skittles team after an accidental peppermint exposure sparked fears of food contamination and ended with a brutal sacking.

Millions of Australians simultaneously jumped out of their skin when AusAlert blasted from their phones Monday afternoon but it seems the new national emergency system may have failed its first test.

The founders of booming Aussie clothing brand Ringers Western have revealed their support for Pauline Hanson, saying One Nation is the “better option” for the country while railing against current immigration, debt and transgender policies.

Oil and gas giant Shell is cutting jobs at its powerful Queensland QGC business in a major new restructure.

The Aussie sharemarket cracked a fresh record high on Wednesday, punching through rolling global chaos to retake the peaks it hit in early March before the outbreak of the US-Iran war threw markets into turmoil.