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Beneath the booming headline jobs market numbers lie a number of trends that are constraining the kick to the economy and warrant watching.

Yes, it’s tax time. Not the June 30-time, the potentially even more painful time.

James Shipton, a Harvard lawyer and former investment banker, has been appointed chairman of ASIC.

The busy end of year can be lucrative for small businesses, but can also mean jumping on the recruitment treadmill to find extra staff to stay on top of a bulkier workload.

In the middle of Melbourne’s CBD, puppies are literally playing their part in assisting the problem of youth homelessness.

Westpac chief executive Brian Hartzer said more borrowers are switching to paying down principal on their home loans from interest only, during yesterday’s parliamentary hearing for the review into the four major banks.

Westpac consumer bank chief George Frazis unveils an overhaul of legacy bank account features amid growing competition from “formidable” technology companies.

Australia has been mostly spared the rising popular discontent with globalisation.

I’d dispense with the word “innovation” in the term “business innovation”. Businesses would be better served spending less time discussing innovation and more on tangible customer solutions, even using low fidelity prototypes made with cardboard and pipe cleaners.

Tegan Burke became Westpac’s youngest ever personal banker after starting her career four years ago as a 14 year old through the bank’s Indigenous school-based trainee program. Her first bank manager, John Veal, is her mentor and biggest fan.