Heavy discounting of goods is likely to cause some retailers to go broke warned Gerry Harvey, chairman of Harvey Norman. Talking about his own furnishing and electrical outlets he said that it was a struggle to turn a profit because so many items had been knocked down in price to ...

A new survey claims that close to 80% of companies plan to increase their worker’s salaries at some point over the next twelve months. Nearly 25% of those who plan to increase wages said that they would do so above the rate of inflation. The survey was conducted by Grant ...

Flag carrier Qantas has just announced that other than on a few international flights it will be removing its first class service. Those travelling from Australia to London via either Los Angeles or Singapore will still be able to make a left turn when they board but only on 12 ...

UK based worldwide car rental comparison website, Carrentals.co.uk has reached the top Google’s search engine results for car rental related key words in September, with 54 per cent of the 1.5 million car rental associated searches that took place in the month by ranking in the number one position. The report, ...

Further airline chaos may hit Australian skies, as Qantas aircraft may be grounded over the Christmas period as engineers threaten to strike over December and January, at a time when British Airways flights could be disrupted over strikes from the airline’s cabin crew. The national carrier is faced with a maintenance ...

Christmas has arrived ahead of time for a 30-something man from Brisbane's south-side who won $40 million in Tuesday Night's OZ 7 Lotto draw. The winner nonchalantly gave over his ticket to be inspected at an agency at about lunch time and was dismayed to be told he was a high ...

Telco giant Telstra has come clean, admitting that it doesn’t know how to fix its poor customer service standards, so it will call 18,000 customers to find out how to do so. The company, which is Australia’s most hated company in terms of complaints, will today ask 10 million account holders ...

An unauthorised history of Qantas claims that the airline allowed a Boeing 747 jet to continue flying for nine months even though it was leaking oil, during which time a flight engineer was overcome by fumes believed to have been caused by the leak. The book alleges that repeated inspections had ...

Doctors have warned that a campaign to turn Australia into a South-East Asian hub for medical tourism could lead to a bidding war by health care providers. The Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC) would like to entice high spending overseas tourists to Australia who seek medical services. ATEC managing director Matt Hingerty ...

Virgin Blue and national carrier Qantas are in a war of words after plans for the bigger airline to introduce Jetstar services on the route. Qantas, which owns 46 percent of Fiji’s national airline Air Pacific, filed an application last weed with the International Air Services Commission for almost 1500 seats ...