THE name Findlay Securities has passed into stockbroking history after a brief but colourful existence, but it's reputation lingers like a sore for new owner Otto Buttula.

THE choice of Kristina Keneally as Premier shapes as a disaster waiting to happen.

INDONESIA'S powerful corruption watchdog, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), is in disarray after two of its most senior officials were yesterday named by police in a probe that alleges they allowed two executives to flee the country before facing justice for embezzlement.

MELBOURNE'S office workers could be swimming in trash in the coming weeks, with hundreds of the city's low-paid cleaners considering a strike across the CBD.

VICTORIA'S Ombudsman has launched a probe into government cleaning contracts worth $52 million, after revelations that a state minister tried to influence the awarding of the work.