Australia’s economy has shown remarkable resilience in the wake of the transition away from the mining boom, ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott says, although he admits the country is slowing down.

This week is BlueNotes’ second birthday. Pretty good for what could loosely be called a financial services start-up.

We know at BlueNotes – courtesy of our most-read story –the tie or no tie with business suit debate is a hostile one. But we've found another: desk management. Our publisher, Paul Edwards, was so stunned by the state of the desk of our managing editor, Andrew Cornell, he tweeted a pic of it.

Just a few years ago when I stepped on board the Number 8 tram at Punt Road to get to work, passengers were immersed in Melbourne’s great newspaper mastheads – The Herald Sun, The Age or maybe The Australian Financial Review (AFR) or The Australian.