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Melbourne’s water storages are having their best winter run-off since 1995, swelling above 38 per cent full.

Telstra is to sack 300 executives in Melbourne and Sydney – around 10 per cent of its senior management.

Complaints to the Public Transport Ombudsman have jumped by 30 per cent since the roll-out of the troubled Myki transport ticketing system.

Australia is the fourth-fastest-growing property market in the world after a 20 per cent price jump in the past year.

Kevin Rudd needs to get out from under his 40 per cent tax on the mining industry. He can’t just repeat slogans about how fair it is – he’s lost that argument. The polls show most Australians don’t agree with him.

iPhone maker Foxconn has offered workers at its Shenzhen manufacturing hub in China a 66 per cent performance-based pay rise as it tries to deal with the fallout from a spate suicides.

Tony Abbott’s promise to bring back a version of the Pacific Solution has won support from 42 per cent of Labor voters, while only a bare majority oppose it.

Rate rises don't stop shoppers The Age However, department store sales slumped 2.4 per cent, while cafes and restaurants dropped 0.7 per cent, the ABS said. By state, NSW's retail sales dropped … and more

Deputy PM says multinationals such as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto pay just 13 per cent tax.

Retail sales rise less than expected The Age Nationwide, sales at cafes and restaurants rose 0.4 per cent in trend terms in March while department stores edged up 0.3 per cent. …