SYDNEY, June 30 (Reuters) - Australian investment firm Babcock & Brown Ltd , hit by worries over high debt earlier this month, won a reprieve from its lenders, sending its shares up as much as 17 percent on Monday. Two-thirds of Babcock ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia welcomed foreign investment from China but would protect its national interest, the government said Thursday amid

CANBERRA/SYDNEY, June 26 (Reuters) - Australia played down reports on Thursday that it might tighten foreign-investment rules to curb Chinese takeovers of local resource firms, as it emerged that China's Sinosteel was pursuing a second iron ore miner ...

A major Investment Bank in the city is looking for a Unix specialist to join their Sydney team. The role will consist primarily of Unix support and project work within a service oriented culture, The candidate should be able to operate on a global ...

SYDNEY, June 20 (Reuters) - Mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc (RIO.AX: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) (RIO.L: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) on Friday attacked an Australian regulator's recommendation that it allow rivals to use ...

In the past on the June Longweekend there has been an Ancients Wargaming Con in Sydney. But due to ongoing feebleness in the organisers it was not run. Partly I suppose this is because of the schism in the rules, with the previously most popular rulesset DBM being replaced by one of the authors with ...

FOURTEEN years ago, Alan Bond was brain damaged and a broken man. The poor guy could barely remember his name, let alone whether he had $50 million in bank accounts in Switzerland. He sat in the Federal Court in Sydney, staring into space for minutes ...

FOURTEEN years ago, Alan Bond was brain-damaged and a broken man. The poor guy could barely remember his name, let alone whether he had $50 million in bank accounts in Switzerland. I remember him sitting in the Federal Court in Sydney, staring into ...