The industrial umpire has awarded up to 2.2 million Australian workers, including the lowest paid, an extra $21.60 a week from next month, taking the minimum wage from $719.20 to $740.80. The Fair Work Commission on Thursday lifted the national minimum wage by 3 per cent to $19.49 per hour from 1 July in response…
Wellington Phoenix have been sent a bill for $1 million by Football Federation Australia for failing to hit their required off-field metrics this season. Despite improving their home attendances by nearly 50 per cent and a significant upturn in their TV ratings on Sky Sport in New Zealand, the Phoenix still fell some way short…
President Donald Trump's trade war with China has prompted a broad rethinking of how the two economies have become so intertwined, leading some manufacturers to trim supply chains in China and American authorities to start cutting off crucial technology for Chinese companies. Now another important area is getting a close look: financial markets. Some trade…
The Pokemon Company has announced it is developing Pokemon Sleep, a mobile app that tracks players' sleep and uses the data for gameplay, with a release date set for next year. "We want to turn sleep into entertainment," said Tsunekazu Ishihara, chief executive of the Japanese company, which helps manage the Pokemon franchise, at a…
Tim Clipsham wasn't prepared for a phone call from Atlassian inquiring about buying his start-up. "I was really surprised, it wasn't something I had considered," the founder of analytics company Good Software says. "I had a 10-year vision ahead of what I wanted to achieve." The 31-year-old software developer launched Good Software just over two…
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has told an Australian audience it was “speculation” and “absolutely untrue” that Hong Kong would lose its distinct identity as the Chinese Communist Party pushes ahead with an economic plan to link the former British colony with nearby mainland cities. Lam will travel to Australia to promote…
Alan Jones has re-signed with Macquarie Media after protracted contract negotiations that have dragged on for months. Click Here: On Tuesday, Macquarie Media announced the Sydney shock jock had been given a two-year contract. Formal contract negotiations kicked-off in late February. Macquarie Media chairman Russell Tate said in a statement he was pleased that Jones…
Wellington: New Zealand's political opposition has denied hacking the Treasury department to obtain highly secure state budget documents and says the Ardern government is conducting a "witch-hunt". The country's centre-right National Party on Tuesday released what it said were details from the Labour-led administration's much-anticipated national budget, but refused to say how it got the…
I was in a café with a friend, and a well-dressed businessman approached. He told me he was a fan of my writing, and that he’d love to meet up some time. Later, he called me, and we chatted for half an hour. He said he was divorced with a child, and that he was…
Click:全国楼凤论坛 Australia's greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 rose for a fourth year in a row, an increase at odds with the country's Paris climate pledge, according to a government submission to the United Nations. The National Inventory Report to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change showed emissions last year were 537 million tonnes of…