Politics & Economy

President Barack Obama has delivered on another of his election promises. The National Institutes of Health can now fund embryonic...

At the last federal election, Kevin Rudd promised to junk the coalition’s Work Choices industrial relations regime. Labor’s alternative, entitled...

We headed out to the city streets of Adelaide to see if people are still spending, and if they are,...

Deeply troubling circumstances, that’s how the figures on the national economy released today are being described by at least one...

The Australian Retailer’s Association is calling on shoppers to come out of their “financial hibernation” and start spending. But can...

The Minister for Trade, Simon Crean, is celebrating a landmark agreement with the Association of South East Asian Nations (or...

A senior Israeli diplomat, Dan Gillerman, is asking Australia not to attend a convention on racism at the UN, saying...

The global economic crisis may lead to the abolishment of one of the United States most controversial punishments- the death...

Newspapers and news bulletins over the past few months have brought nothing but bad news about the economy. This week...

Pacific Brands 1850 job cuts represent a dwindling textile and manufacturing industry in Australia. With bleak economic circumstances and upcoming...