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Australia's latest jobless figures are likely to follow a trend for the year's start after economists were wrong-footed by a surprise fall in unemployment.

Alcoa has agreed to pay $55 million to restore a forest habitat that's home to protected species after clearing it for bauxite mining without approvals.

Shares in Medibank and Nib have jumped after both insurers announced premium hikes of more than 5 per cent for 2026.

TOM RICHARDSON: Bank shares have surged in February as they impress investors with cost control and benefit from the flow through of three interest rate cuts in 2025.

Its ‘down down’ campaign enabled Coles to make higher profits as more product sold, depending on deals with suppliers, a senior executive says.

Kevin Gallagher’s pay packet for the 2025 year was inflated by a multimillion-dollar payment of performance rights as the oil and gas producer also announced sweeping job cuts

The Kremlin is making big promises to Donald Trump’s administration.

NAB has flagged cost out programs and more lending helped its profit jump in the December quarter.

Workers have seen their pay levels go backwards compared with inflation for the first time since late 2023, unless they’re a public servant. Labor’s election promise to get wages moving again is looking hollow.

The revised bid is a “best and final” $32.25 a share offer that values Australia’s biggest steel maker at $15 billion.

December wage data is set to remain stable, even though large sections of the workforce pocketed a rise in their weekly pay.

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler says premiums will increase by an average 4.41 per cent from April, up from the previous year’s 3.73 per cent rise.

Baby Bunting's nine revamped ‘stores of the future’ are delivering the goods, helping the baby goods retailer grow overall same-store sales by 4.7 per cent.

Supermarket giant Coles has fired back over price jumps on household essentials marketed with a Down Down promotion, arguing they represented ‘genuine’ cost increases.