COMMENT: While the proposal is good in theory, it's no panacea for the challenges of our modern economy.

His parents wouldn't buy him an Apple watch, so this schoolboy found another way. He's now turning over $300 a week.

Iyia Liu has made a fortune by cashing in on the latest beauty trends.

They are among the biggest and best properties in Australia, with price tags to prove it. Buyers dropped jaw-dropping amounts of money on these homes

Two of the theme park's so-called 'Big Nine' thrill rides have reopened almost two months after the fatal accident.

Three years before these Aussie millennials bought their first property, they had $15,700. Now they have a portfolio worth more than $10.5 million.

COMMENT: Billionaire casino owner James Packer's Crown Resorts was hit with a A$362 million tax bill relating to its disastrous foray into the US.

Poll finds 54% back an independent body to monitor the Australian Federal Budget.

Dubbed as the "spaceship" and the "igloo" by locals, this quirky home in Australia is on the market for $1.45 million.

What happens to the Australian economy when the construction sector dries up?

She thought he was going to confess to being unfaithful again but he replied "no, it's much worse than that... I've lost everything."

Australia looks set to follow in the footsteps of Venezuela and India by abolishing the country's highest-denomination banknote.

Former Billabong boss faked his ex-wife's signature on mortgage documents to use the family home in a A$13.5 million, a court has heard.

COMMENT: Organic baby formula, gambling resorts, nothing can escape the damage of Chinese regulation, Christopher Niesche writes.

Failing high school was the best thing that could have happened to this Australian millionaire.

The Australian economy is officially in the doldrums, with the latest data revealing its worst quarterly performance since the global financial crisis.

These young people have made it big by investing in property - and they have some advice for their fellow millennials.

Meet the wealthy Chinese fuelling a "significant uptake" in luxury shopping sales in Australia.

COMMENT: Building materials company Boral is spending A$3.5 billion to acquire Utah-based construction materials group Headwaters.

No one expected them to get this far but a team of Melbourne uni students have taken their new transport vision a step closer to reality.

COMMENT: Australia has enjoyed an uninterrupted and unprecedented run of economic growth - but now it's holding the country back.

After just over two years on store shelves, children's toy Shopkins has become a huge business.

A new Islamic State propaganda video features a Qantas passenger jet, Melbourne airport and St Paul's Cathedral.

A penthouse apartment in Sydney's Bennelong Point, with a 270 degree outlook of Sydney's iconic harbour, is Australia's most expensive apartment.

Here's how Australian pharmacist Danielle Di Pilla is making millions selling her goat soap around the world.

Qantas has been flying to New Zealand for 76 years and is boosting capacity to meet a surge in demand.

A tin shed (literally, a tin shed) has sold for $1.8m in a Sydney suburb this week.

COMMENT: Investors take a glass-half-full approach and focus on hopes spending will get US economy moving again.

Could this home ownership scheme from the UK be the answer to our housing affordability woes?

Sticking cigarettes up bottoms and "cockfights". The bullying inside Australia's most humiliating workplace.