Hockey hits back in billion-dollar bust-up

EXPORTS fell 4 per cent in July after their strong performance over the previous three months, causing a sharp narrowing in the trade surplus, data released today shows. The trade balance of goods and services was a seasonally

LABOR has accused the Coalition of being deliberately deceptive with its costings, but Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey blames a difference of opinion with Treasury for apparent holes in its costings. Independent MP Tony Windsor

ACTOR Paul Hogan is hopeful of resolving his differences with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) after receiving a letter that his lawyer says is a positive sign. I can’t say what’s in the letter but we take it as a positive sign," Hogan’s lawyer 

Paul Hogan has spoken publicly for the first time since being ordered to stay in Australia over a tax dispute. The actor is grounded in Australia on a departure prohibition until he settles an alleged multi-million-dollar unpaid tax bill

Hollywood heartthrob Zac Efron is heading to Australia next month to promote his new film Charlie St Cloud. Efron will walk the red carpet in Sydney on September 19, Universal Pictures says. The star of the hit High School Musical trilogy has taken

The Dean of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music, Sharman Pretty, has quit amid an overhaul of the institution’s future direction. The University of Melbourne says it endorses the recommendations to a review of the VCA, led by Ziggy Switkowski.

Mark Taylor was unfazed by the latest Pakistani match-fixing scandal and admits he has doubts about the Sydney Test Australia won so remarkably in January. The former Australia captain has seen and heard it all before.

Chris Rogers, the Australian batsman, will not return to Derbyshire in 2011 after accepting an offer from Middlesex. After a short stint with the county in 2004, Rogers came back in 2008  and became one of the club’s most prolific scorers,

All-rounder Shane Watson has savaged the International Cricket Council over its inability, or reluctance, to expose and catch match-fixers.On a day when the Pakistan Cricket Board refused to stand down players implicated