Cricket Australia has warned scalpers and desperate Ashes fans they are armed with “secret” new techniques to identify and cancel black market tickets.
An unprecedented rush for Ashes tickets begins this morning with the 125,000-strong CA Family given the first opportunity to secure seats for Australia-England series next summer.
But with the general on-sale date not until [...]

As soon as international art saleroom Christie’s announced it was shutting down its operations in Australia last month, two auction houses decided to fill the void.
Sydney-based Bonhams & Goodman will today open an office at the Como Centre in South Yarra in preparation for its first big art auction in Melbourne in September.
A month later, [...]

A New Zealand man has been jailed for nearly three years after he was found guilty of hacking the accounts of internet bank and auction site users.
Mark Hayes, 19, was sentenced to two years and 11 months at Auckland District Court on fraud charges. The court heard how the defendant used keylogging software to record [...]

Privately owned Visy Industries has withdrawn from bidding for Brambles Industries Ltd’s Cleanaway waste management business, the Australian newspaper reported with citing sources.
The newspaper said Visy, controlled by billionaire Richard Pratt, withdrew from the auction after it became clear that Brambles wants to sell both Cleanaway and its industrial services division in one package [...]

Press Release
Bloomberg, the
leading global provider of data, analytics and news to the
financial community, today announced that the Australian
Office of Financial Management (“AOFM”) has
selected the Bloomberg Auction System for the conduct of
Australian Government Bond tenders later this year.
Following an open tender for procurement of a new
electronic system for the collection and [...]

Two Way TV Australia, a company which holds exclusive perpetual licenses to use technologies and content from Two Way TV UK in Australia and New Zealand, and which, following an IPO in which it raised AUS$40 million to fund its expansion, last year signed a licensing deal with the UK company that will allow it [...]

The Southern Hemisphere’s largest ever thoroughbred sale is now less than a week away.
The Magic Millions National Sale – comprising of 2,490 lots – kicks off with the first of three session of yearlings on Sunday on Queensland’s fabulous Gold Coast.
With another three days of the region’s best weanlings and then five days comprising mostly [...]