Nine’s apparent debt free status looks like being a temporary situation. There are no free lunches with hedge funds, just as there are no free lunches with private equity.

Yesterday's early morning raid on Craig Thomson's home while his young family slept -- pre-leaked by police to the media who wet themselves over pictures beamed to breakfast television -- is highly unlikely to have any implications for the longevity of the Gillard government.

Despite the hype, no one really expected the News Corporation annual general meeting in Los Angeles this morning to sack Rupert Murdoch or transform the way he runs the company. But few could have predicted such a farcical affair.

Despite the hype, no one really expected the News Corporation annual general meeting in Los Angeles this morning to sack Rupert Murdoch or transform the way he runs the company. But few could have predicted such a farcical affair.

A significant gender gap divides Australian voters in their attitudes toward Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard, a major polling project by Essential Research has found.

The Federal Government's tweaks to unfair dismissal processes are entirely sensible, even if they have left employer groups predictably underwhelmed.

When it comes to the ASX100, there has been progress on gender diversity, but the progress isn't seeping to the boards of mid-sized listed companies. Of the ASX100 companies, 93 have women on their boards, according to a report released by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors.

Social media is rarely kind to the Canberra press gallery but this week there's been one of those periodic outburts of fury.The gallery stands accused of entirely missing the significance of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's speech on Tuesday, which sent Twitter and Facebook into overdrive and was quickly picked up by major international websites.

It’s politics, for God’s sake, but how much does politicians’ religiosity actually sway the Christian voter bloc? Researcher Grant Power investigates.