Australia Post spent $12,000 on luxury watches to reward four senior staff for clinching a deal to do banking at post offices. Chief executive Christine Holgate confirmed the $3000 Cartier watches were handed out as an award for working on the Bank@Post agreement with three […]

Australian businesses are urging state and federal leaders to restart domestic travel by Christmas, warning border restrictions are costing $319 million a day. More than 34,000 local aviation workers have been sacked or stood down during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Business […]

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration has approved the sale of more than a billion dollars worth of advanced weaponry for Taiwan in a move that will enrage China and further exacerbate tensions between Washington and Beijing that have are already heated over issues such as […]

The National Australia Bank (NABhas received a $15 million fine from the Federal Court for its 19-year home loan referral scheme known as the Introducer Program. The controversial scheme, which was terminated by the bank in late 2019, after increasing regulatory scrutiny, […]

The United States and Japan held negotiations on a new agreement by which Tokyo will take on its share of the burden of hosting American troops, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced at a press conference on Wednesday. “We agreed to continue coordination on dates […]

Just one year after Canadians last headed to the polls, another election was avoided as the NDP voted with the Liberal government against a Tory motion that the Liberals had set as a confidence vote. The prospect of a snap election amid the second wave of the pandemic […]

Things were calmer this week in the Nova Scotia lobster fishing dispute as more RCMP were dispatched to the area, while pressure mounted on the federal government to step in to resolve the conflict between indigenous and commercial fishers and clarify indigenous fishing […]