As more titbits of detail come to light in the rate rigging case made against Westpac and ANZ, Pat McConnell, Honorary Fellow at the Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, unpacks the allegations.

McConnell explains what how the bank bill swap rate, or BBSW, is left open for manipulation by traders, comments on the response from the banks and...

For the best part of four weeks, two paintings in the style of the late Sydney artist Brett Whiteley sat in courtroom three of the Victorian Supreme Court. The paintings, Big Blue Lavender Bay and Orange Lavender Bay, were part of Australia’s largest art forgery criminal trial.

The accused were two Melbourne-based men: Peter Gant, who has...

Selfish, damaged, cold-hearted, shallow, overeducated and greedy. Women who choose not to have children are often labelled in these ways by everyone from the Pope to their co-workers.

Australian women experience marked social exclusion if they choose to...