Toyota Australia has bounced back from a challenging 12 months to post a $182.3 million profit for the year to the end of March.

Car maker Holden says business is picking up and its Adelaide vehicle operations will crank up again with the return of a second shift from November.

The number of Australia millionaires has risen 34 per cent as the world's wealthy recover most of their losses from the global financial crisis, a study shows.

Retail trade and residential building approvals undershoot expectations in February but an interest rate rise next week is still seen as likely.

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens has again warned borrowers that the central bank is aiming to get interest rates back to a more "normal" level, a message it has banged on about for several months.

Thanks to the global financial crisis, IDC’s Forecast for Management Survey 2009 covers a year in IT unlike any other -- and the economic turbulence is reflected in the results.

Australian CIOs respond to the latest Forecast for Management Survey from IDC

IT professionals asked to do more work for less pay and fewer benefits might be able to forgive their employers' financial choices, but industry watchers say high-tech workers won't soon forget being treated poorly during the most recent economic recession and will look to find other employment opportunities as soon as the recovery gets under way.

In response to pressures from economic crisis and the Gershon Report, organisations with outsourced environments are tackling the need to cut costs quickly. Here’s how they’re doing it. . .

Despite having to cope with massive budget cuts, salary freezes and demoralized staffs, most employed IT executives are more satisfied with their jobs this year than they have been in previous years, according to the results of a job satisfaction survey conducted by ExecuNet.