A typical image of a thin,invasive melanoma.

Germany's mission to slash Australian skin cancer rate

A team of German software engineers is hoping to slash the rate of skin cancers in Australia by putting the intelligence of so-called smart phones to the test.

  • Jared Lynch

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TPI Enterprises Managing Director Jarrod Ritchie with a bag of thebaine,a narcotic raw material,which has a commercial value of about $US600 a kilogram.

Poppy producer TPI has high hopes this year but HQ's profile stays low

Finding TPI Enterprises' HQ is not easy. And that's for a very good reason.

  • Jared Lynch
GrainCorp CEO Mark Palmquist says the market has been"subdued".

GrainCorp hit by China's tightening grip on infant formula market

China's tightening of infant formula regulations has hit Australia's biggest agribusiness GrainCorp.

  • Jared Lynch
Grain farmers need some rain to"finish the crops off".

GrainCorp's half-year profit drops 32.5 per cent

Australia's biggest agribusiness sees profit fall by a third amid a "subdued market" and dry weather.

  • Jared Lynch
The resignations follow Murray Goulburn's big downgrade of its annual profit forecast in late April.

Murray Goulburn director Duncan Morris resigns

A third director has quit the board of Murray Goulburn following the dairy co-operative's profit downgrade and cut to the farm gate milk price.

  • Jared Lynch
Incitec Pivot chief executive James Fazzino says about 1500 manufacturing jobs are at risk if its Gibson Island factory closes.

Incitec Pivot boss calls for payroll tax reform

About 1500 jobs are at risk if fertiliser company Incitec Pivot fails in its talks with gas suppliers,government and its workers to cut costs at its factory in Gibson Island in Brisbane.

  • Jared Lynch
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Incitec Pivot chief executive James Fazzino (left) and Louisiana project director Morris Hofman (right) at the ammonia plant under construction at Jefferson Parish in the US state of Louisiana.

Incitec Pivot's net profit dives 79pc on Gibson Island plant write-down

Incitec Pivot's first-half profit plummeted 79 per cent amid weak global fertiliser prices and after high energy costs forced it to write down the value of its Brisbane factory.

  • Jared Lynch
Orica chief executive Alberto Calderon says the future for commodity markets remains uncertain.

Investors blast Orica,shares dive 12 per cent

The boss of the world's biggest explosives maker,Orica,says it is impossible to say when a "deteriorating" mining industry will start to improve after the company's half year profit tumbled 33 per cent and it halved its interim dividend.

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Orica chief executive Alberto Calderon.

Orica's first-half net profit dives 33 per cent

The world's biggest explosives maker,Orica,has posted a 33 per cent plunge in net profit,citing a "deterioration" of the global mining industry.

  • Jared Lynch
Farmer Power president Chris Gleeson.

Dairy farmers go to war on Murray Goulburn,Fonterra cuts

A breakaway group of dairy farmers are preparing itself for "war" after Murray Goulburn and Fonterra slashed the price its pays for raw milk.

  • Jared Lynch