Helen McCabe, former editor-in-chief of Australian Women's Weekly, has joined nine.com.au in the newly created role of head of lifestyle.

MOD Resources has received further positive drill results from the phase 1 resource target area at the T3 prospect in the Kalahari copper belt, Botswana.

Telstra customers shouldn't be paying steep premiums to access the telecom giant's network, according to consumer advocacy group Choice.

Moody's warns that failure to get the Senate's approval on budget repair measures could be bad news for Australia's credit rating.

Ratings agency Moody's says any sign the federal government can't get agreement in the Senate on budget repair will be negative for Australia's credit rating.

The makers of Paddle Pops and Sakata rice snacks have been fined by the consumer watchdog over misleading healthy food claims on packs.

Avita Medical has raised $9 million to support its launch in the US and push forward with product commercialisation.

Aerial imagery company, Nearmap, has made available the first commercial imagery from its HyperCamera2 capture system in June.

JustKapital Litigation Partners has raised $5 million via unsecured convertible bonds to sophisticated and professional investors.

Dragon Mountain Gold has bought the gold and other mineral rights, excluding nickel and cobalt, for the Cawse and Avalon tenement packages.

A woman who raised fears her daughter was being abused was threatened with legal action.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released the official housing finance figures for May.

CIMIC and its joint-venture partner have won a $1.6 billion contract to build a road tunnel in Hong Kong.

Emefcy Group will set up a management team and build a production facility in China to tap into the Government's plan to increase rural wastewater treatment.

Lithium Australia and Cazaly Resources have bought the rights to pegmatite minerals in the Widgiemooltha pegmatite field in Western Australia.

Online dating platform, DateTix Group, increased monthly active members by 21% to 16,400 for June, with date listings up 34% to 14,300.

Billabong has paid $45 million to settle a shareholder class action over the timing of earnings downgrades but says it is not an admission of liability.

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Australia's peak AIDS organisations and scientists have announced an end to the AIDS epidemic, as the country joins the few nations in the world to have beaten the syndrome.

Customers should be recording every outage and loss, says Choice.