Under pressure ... New Telstra chief David Thodey. It is somehow fitting that the American gambling mecca, Las Vegas, has provided a backdrop to the ongoing drama of Australia's national broadband network. Sol Trujillo's fatal showdown with Telstra's board came during the telco's annual

Sol Trujillo's fatal showdown with Telstra's board came during the telco's annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas last year. The trip was timed to coincide with the Consumer Electronics Show featuring all the shiney new tech toys that were going to transform Telstra's customer experience. By January

Under pressure ... New Telstra chief David Thodey. Government may have lit the Telstra fuse but both sides are sweating on talks that will recast Australia's telco industry, writes Colin Kruger. It is somehow fitting that the American gambling mecca, Las Vegas, has provided a

AAP NSW government plans to build two new power stations have bipartisan support but are unlikely to go ahead, the state opposition says. The government announced on Wednesday it had approved concept plans to build the additional baseload power stations near existing facilities at

Canberra businesses have reported the highest level of confidence in the country but support for the ACT Government has fallen. The turnaround in confidence in the last quarter is due to a widely-held perception the economy will improve over the next 12 months. Sensis Business

It was not so long ago that sections of the Coalition held a real fear of Kevin Rudd going for an early double-dissolution election with climate change at its core. As implausible as it may now seem, Malcolm Turnbull, as part of his case to have the Coalition negotiate and pass the emissions

The BankSA State Monitor for February reported consumer confidence levels similar to those in mid-2007, before the global financial crisis, but down slightly from higher levels of August last year. The dip this month was attributed to recent interest rate increases and uncertainty

Former Federal Government climate change adviser Professor Ross Garnaut has likened the Opposition's climate change policy to Soviet era decisions. Professor Garnaut helped the Government design its emissions trading scheme (ETS). The Opposition's policy is based on incentives

The Federal Government will not outline how household budgets would be affected if it were to raise its emissions reduction targets from the current 5 per cent. But Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has defended the amount of information she has released on the