The Fair Work Commission will today deliver its decision over whether to bring Sunday penalty rates in line with Saturday rates for those working in the retail, hospitality and fast-food industries, reigniting a political fight between Labor and the Coalition.

The Federal Government is facing pressure to ban lucrative mortgage broker commissions, which consumer groups say encourage bad behaviour and are contributing to record household debt.

Thousands of counterfeit prescription pills made their way into Australia's official supply chain in 2010, ending up at a children's hospital in Sydney. Now the pharmacist who supplied the fakes is fighting the cancellation of his licence.

The executive director of the International Energy Agency calls on Australia to become a world leader in carbon capture and storage technology.

Australia's energy operator finds power plant failures contributed to the unprecedented pressure on the New South Wales electricity grid during this month's heatwave.

For the people of Thebarton, the closure of Coca-Cola's bottling plant in Adelaide will be like having "your heart ripped out", a local historian says, who remembers touring the newly opened factory in 1951 as a child.

Aviation and community groups say there are too many developments hampering pilots and putting people at risk at Archerfield Airport, on Brisbane's outskirts.

Even as the Commonwealth Bank last week unveiled another record half-year profit of $5 billion, not everything was rosy — its life insurance arm CommInsure continues to be a headache, and with ASIC campaigning insurers to publicly report claim figures, premiums could rise as a consequence.

Australian workers continue to face record low wage rises, with the downturn in the mining sector driving the weak outcomes.

Seven West chairman Kerry Stokes and director Jeff Kennett are criticised by a NSW Supreme Court judge for their public comments vilifying former employee Amber Harrison.

President Donald Trump has sworn in a who's who of oil leaders, which analysts say give his administration a pro-petroleum bias that may hurt Australia.

A major Hunter Valley mine expansion, Anglo American's Drayton South project, is rejected for the fourth time amid concerns it poses too many risks to the environment.

Australian business investment continues to decline, defying a nascent global recovery in corporate expansion plans and threatening the nation's economic growth.

Three Pakistani seafarers who jumped over the side of their livestock ship into Fremantle harbour in an apparent asylum bid will be deported, the Immigration Department says.

The move to slash Sunday penalty rates could face a legal and political battle, with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten vowing to stop the cuts.

The Federal Government's renewable energy target has proved a headache for Malcolm Turnbull, but what exactly is the RET and what is it hoped to achieve?

The Federal Government's renewable energy target has proved a headache for Malcolm Turnbull, but what exactly is the RET and what is it hoped to achieve?

The Fair Work Commission has announced cuts to penalty rates. We hear from the retail and hospitality workers that will be affected by the cuts and the reactions are not all negative.

Electricity retailers ERM Power and Alinta Energy opt to pay more than $130 million in penalties, rather than meeting their renewable energy obligations, raising fresh questions about the Renewable Energy Target.

Solar energy is now cheaper in Australia than retail power prices in most capital cities after dropping 58 per cent in the past five years, the Climate Council says.