BABCOCK & BROWN POWER has officially changed its name to Alinta Energy, in an attempt to sever links with its collapsed former parent.

EAT before you shop: this is the advice often served up to supermarket shoppers who tend to spend too much at the checkout because they are hungry. It could also be good advice for those headed to a bookshop.

Dead Famous shows Melbourne's underworld war was far from glamorous, reports Paul Kalina.

THE Chief Justice of the NSW Supreme Court, James Spigelman, has objected to plans to rename the Sydney federal electorate of Lowe after "that most insipid of characters", Billy McMahon.

A once-over-lightly history of BHP dismays Gideon Haigh. The Big Fella: The Rise and Rise of BHP Billiton By Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin William Heinemann, $59.95