June 19, 2013 You can learn a huge amount from business failure.

June 19, 2013 Perhaps the most annoying tactic in the black art of public relations these days is to respond to questions, not by answering them, but by answering related propositions which were never put in the first place.

June 19, 2013 Dumb Ways to Die, a catchy public service announcement from Metro Trains in Melbourne, Australia, won the Grand Prix in the public relations and direct marketing categories at the Cannes Lions festival, representing a world conquest for the little PSA.

June 19, 2013 The media is right to shine a light on the conduct five years ago of Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFP) because it reminds readers how far we have come in changing financial planning.

June 19, 2013 Three decades without a recession has made Australians too expensive to employ for global capital.

June 19, 2013 Watching Nationals Senator John Williams and Labor Senator Doug Cameron questioning ASIC Deputy Commissioner Peter Kell in Senate Estimates over the agency's numerous failures in the Don Nguyen matter filled me, as one of the whistleblowers involved, with mixed emotions.

June 19, 2013 Nathan Tinkler's main financial backers including Farallon Management have decided to cash in their chips and take Tinkler's biggest asset, his 19 per cent stake in coal miner, Whitehaven.

June 19, 2013 Creditors of Lehman Brothers Australia have failed to reach an agreement on a proposal to return $210 million to clients including local councils

June 19, 2013 Tinkler Group statement on the stake sale.

June 19, 2013 The Reserve Bank appears to continue talking down the Australian dollar to help stoke economic growth, while the latest board minutes released by the central bank suggests it is open to cutting the cash rate again.