The Melbourne Newsroom

New initiatives to attract businesses back into the Shepparton CBD area are on the cards, as a group of Masters students from the University of Melbourne assess the city’s vacancy rates.

University of Melbourne students will pitch online business ideas to Australia’s most prominent technology investors next week in the hope their ideas may become the next internet sensation.

The agility of Australian and New Zealand organizations will come under the microscope for the first time in a study launched today by the University of Melbourne and leading professional services firm PwC 

The University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Business & Economics has become the first Victorian University to be given accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Business Schools International.

Home owners with loans from finance companies that are not banks, credit unions or building societies are slugged with exit fees up to 350% higher than other home owners with loans, according to a new University of Melbourne study. 

Australian businesses will need to engage in sustainability reporting in the future to remain competitive, according to a new report.

Dr Sam Wylie says that IMF predictions of a growth phase in the world economy in 2010 are off the mark, and says Australia should expect a long but shallow recession. 

"The financial crisis is going to take between $40-$60 billion out of Government revenues.  We should expect to see big defecits in Australia, with total government debt around $200 billion at the end of 2012, where at the moment its about $50 billion."