An interview with the managing director of VMware Australia, Paul Harapin

CXO talks with Mark Woolf, the CEO of the Cruising Yacht Club Of Australia prior to the Sydney to Hobart race.

The failure of Australia's political leaders to agree on a way forward to tackle the global climate change threat as embodied by the voting down of the proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS) in the Senate today will have costly consequences.

Australia's GDP has been forecast to grow at 2.5 per cent next year and 3.5 per cent in 2011 in the most recent economic outlook by the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD).

The call by the Food and Agriculture Organisation's director general, Jacques Diouf for more investment in agriculture in developing nations is one that should be viewed not just as an effort to feed the world's one billion hungry people, but also as a way to stimulate economic development.

Australia has come in as the 8th least corrupt country in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).

The APEC leaders' declaration at the end of the regional grouping's summit in Singapore has been welcomed, except for one glaring omission.

Chandra-Bibit may not be a familiar story to many Australians, but for those keeping an eye out on our neighbours to the north it is a riveting yarn.