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One of the nation’s biggest sofa and furnishing retailers has been caught up in a security breach.

The Australian sharemarket has closed lower after Telstra’s disappointing earnings and profit-taking among major miners dragged the ASX 200 down 0.23 per cent.

The RBA has signalled a slowing housing market could reduce the need for further interest rate rises, even as Governor Michele Bullock insists property prices don’t drive cash rate decisions.

The Treasurer and his senior Labor colleagues are claiming to be champions of wage growth despite average, full-time salaries failing to keep pace with high inflation, leaving rich and poor with real pay cuts.

A multi-billion-dollar rescue package will be paid for by the federal and NSW governments to keep the nation's biggest aluminium smelter from going under.

A biotech breakthrough can be worth billions – if it survives the journey. Bulls N’ Bears follows the trek from a promising discovery through to a product doctors can actually use.

The artificial intelligence revolution is creating a massive and unexpected demand surge for copper, with some new data centres requiring up to ten times more of the metal than legacy infrastructure.

Full-time Aussie workers are earning more on paper - but are going backwards in reality as inflation overtakes wage growth for the first time since 2022.

Investment in AI is supporting demand in the economy at a time when the Reserve Bank wants it to cool, but the housing downturn should help get inflation down.

The female boss of a Subiaco-based construction company, a bush medicine brand and a procurement advisory firm are among those recognised for strengthening Australia’s Indigenous business sector.