ANZ announced it will reduce interest rates for variable rate mortgages by 0.20%pa following its December interest rate review.

The Minister for the Status of Women, Julie Collins, has congratulated the Tasmanian recipients of the prestigious Board Diversity Scholarships aimed at boosting the number of women in Australian boardrooms.

“While women make up just over half of Australia's population, only 3.5 per cent of ASX200 companies have a female CEO, and only 12 per cent of positions on boards of directors are women,” Ms Griffin-Warwicke said.

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC, DBE will be honoured with a State Memorial Service to be held at 11am on Tuesday 18 December at St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne, says the Victorian Premier, Ted Baillieu.

Pre-Christmas blitz on retail shops and wholesalers across Victoria has ensured more than 11,000 dangerous toys will not reach children this Christmas.

Corrosive impact on productivity and jobs from growing red tape burden facing Australia's small and medium businesses, as well as impact of rising energy costs central pillars of business advocacy.

Latest ABS figures show that GDP, in seasonally adjusted volume terms, grew 0.5% in the September quarter 2012.

London Olympic sprint cycle champion Anna Meares added another  prestigious award to her impressive collection last night when she won the  2012 Sports Woman of the Year at the Women’s Health magazine’s second  annual I Support Women In Sport black-tie event in Sydney.

With Christmas shopping in full swing and holidays with friends and families being planned, banks aim to work with you so that fraudsters don’t spoil your festive season.