Standard & Poor’s Index Services (S&P) and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) today released a consultation paper seeking market feedback on a proposal to make Foreign Exempt companies listed on ASX eligible for index inclusion.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has acquired an important 17th century painting Mars and the Vestal Virgin by Jacques Blanchard, who was one of the most important Parisian painters of his time.

Bill Viola is internationally recognised as one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. For over 35 years he has been at the forefront of developing the medium of video art as a vital form of contemporary art. Viola’s work focuses on universal human experiences of birth, death and the unfolding of consciousness.

Sibling rivalry has never been so funny. Named Best Australian Act at the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Lawrence Leung Learns to Breakdance is one man's hip-shattering quest for coolness. Sleeping in a bunk bed until the age of 24, it's fair to say Lawrence Leung has never been cool.

March 2008 was a month of robust trading activity across the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), influenced by ongoing market volatility and the uncertainty surrounding interest rates in Australia, despite the early Easter and three fewer trading days compared to the prior period.

The Hilton Hotel in Sydney's CBD was evacuated this morning because of a fire in an empty clothes shop in a nearby three-storey building.

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) welcomes the decision of the Treasurer, the Hon Wayne Swan MP, to pursue legislative change to remove the ambiguity in the Corporations Act around the disclosure of 'covered' short sales.

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) was advised yesterday evening that the Deloitte Corporate Reorganisation Group (Deloitte) was appointed as Receivers and Managers to Opes Prime Stockbroking Ltd (Opes Prime), an ASX trading, clearing and settlement Participant.

Fire investigators are probing the cause of a blaze that destroyed a hardware store and spewed a thick plume of smoke over Sydney this morning.

Around 60 firefighters are battling a large fire raging at a hardware store in inner Sydney and producing a lot of smoke around the city.

From Monday, 31 March 2008 the Australian Securities Exchange's new Disciplinary Processes and Appeals Rulebook will become effective.

Artist Martin Ball from Auckland has been awarded the Packing Room Prize in conjunction with the 2008 Archibald Prize for his portrait of Crowded House frontman, Neil Finn. Neil Finn is one of New Zealand's leading singer/songwriters.