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Fears that debt-stricken Greece may be headed for a chaotic eurozone exit loomed large as US president Barack Obama met other G8 leaders for crisis talks in Washington.
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Facebook's shares rose less than expected on its first day of trading, despite making one of the most eagerly-awaited market debuts in history.
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The Federal Government is under renewed pressure from within its own ranks to demand all Australian cattle sent to Indonesia are stunned first before they are slaughtered.
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The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) says workers at BHP Billiton's coking coal mines in Queensland's Bowen Basin will strike again from next Thursday.
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The Australian share market has hit a six-month low, wiping $32 billion off the All Ordinaries Index, as investors headed for the exits amid fears about ongoing instability in the...
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ANZ Bank chief executive Mike Smith says European wholesale funding markets for banks have effectively frozen as financial markets panic amid ongoing instability in the eurozone.
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Tasmania's main business lobby plans to overhaul its board as it deals with serious financial problems.
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Tasmanian power company Aurora Energy is reporting thefts from some of its power poles in south, creating a safety risk for homes and businesses.
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ACT's triple-A credit rating appears to be secure, after a decision to delay a budget surplus for at least two years.
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Tasmania's Premier has faced criticism of her second state budget which forecasts a rough few years ahead.
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Consumer advocacy group Choice says Qantas is charging $100 million in excess credit card fees every year under the guise of covering processing costs.
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A report has found people who live in the city fare better in terms of health, education, employment and wealth than their rural counterparts.
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Police are working to remove two women from a vehicle which is blocking the entrance to Western Australia's proposed Kimberley gas hub.
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The Western Australian mining industry says it is seriously concerned about a surprise review of the state's royalties.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has turned the first sod at the Inpex liquefied natural gas plant site at Blaydin Point on Darwin Harbour.
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Four building sites run by St Hilliers have been reopened, as the company continues to hold talks with administrators.
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The United States is suspending sanctions barring American investment in Burma in response to political reforms.
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The Tasmanian Opposition is opposing a bailout for Forestry Tasmania announced in yesterday's budget.
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Electoral officials have started counting the votes on a proposed enterprise agreement for workers at BMA's coal mines in central Queensland.
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The local share market is on track for its lowest close since November, as worries about the stability of Greece and Spain spark a sell off.
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Western Queensland MP Vaughan Johnson has asked the State Government to investigate why road train drivers have been fined for what he says are minor breaches over bullbars.
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The Forest Industries Association of Tasmania (FIAT) is returning to the forest peace deal negotiations.
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The owners of Victorian Retravision stores will meet this morning to discuss cash-flow problems in the Retravision group.
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The owner of Queensland's two largest casinos says its cutting more than 60 jobs at its major properties in the state's south-east.
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The competition regulator will investigate clothing importers who are making deals with international online stores to inflate prices for their Australian customers.
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Concern about the health of Spain's banks and the prospect of Greece exiting the eurozone weighed on global financial markets overnight.
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Carmaker Holden will resume sales of the Commodore to North America under the Chevrolet badge.
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SA Premier Jay Weatherill is confident about the future of the Olympic Dam mine expansion despite BHP Billiton indicating it plans to cut back on spending.
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Workers at the Fulham prison in south-east Victoria have decided to cease most of their work bans, as an industrial dispute drags on.
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Virgin Australia will revive its weekday service between Mount Isa and Brisbane, ending the Qantas monopoly on the route.
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Consumers are being warned about unlicensed companies based on Queensland's Gold Coast offering investors huge returns on the share market.
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The mining union says it is confident workers at BHP-Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) mines in central Queensland will reject the company's latest enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA).
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An investigation into animal cruelty in Indonesian abattoirs has recommended action be taken against two Australian exporters.
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The euro crisis spread to Spain overnight as Greece swore in an interim government and British prime minister David Cameron called for decisive action on the uncertainty.
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Labor is using the latest employment data to step up its attack on the State Government's jobs record in country Victoria.
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Facebook has announced a price of $US38 per share for its record-setting initial public offering, giving the leading social network a market value of $104 billion.
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New South Wales public school teachers have stopped work for two hours this morning over State Government moves to give schools greater control of budgets and staffing.
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Public sector unions in Tasmania are expecting hundreds of job cuts to flow from this year's state budget.
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New Zealand's prime minister John Key will meet Julia Gillard over the planned rise in Australia's departure tax.
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The share market has closed in negative territory as deepening turmoil in Europe overcame investors in late trade.
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Electricity and water increases announced in the state budget will cost the average household an extra $3.14 per week.
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The Tasmanian Government will spend $110 million over four years bailing out Forestry Tasmania as it determines how the Government business enterprise should look in the future.
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The Government and unions reject suggestions by BHP Billiton chairman Jac Nasser that businesses will abandon Australia because of the country's workplace laws.
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More charges have been laid against a mining company after it allegedly desecrated a sacred Aboriginal site in the Northern Territory.
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Commonwealth Bank has recorded a 3 per cent jump in quarterly cash profit, putting it on course for another record annual result.
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The Northern Territory Government says average household utilities prices are set to rise by $225 a year because of the Federal Government's carbon tax costs and an increase in the...
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The Victorian Government has announced the start of major drilling and environmental testing work on the planned east-west tunnel link in Melbourne's inner-north.
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After accumulating almost a billion users and nearly $4 billion in annual revenue, Facebook is going public and will launch itself onto the US stock market on Friday (US time).
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As markets prepare for the prospect of a Greek exit from the euro, one prominent British economist says Greece could face a military coup if it abandons the single currency.
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Global markets are jumpy and safe haven assets such as gold are plunging as the political impasse in Greece sends investors ducking for cover.
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A business analyst says the effects of the European Union's economic crisis are likely to bring about the end of Western Australia's mining boom.
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Oil and gas producer Santos will today export its 1,000th cargo from its Port Bonython processing plant in the Upper Spencer Gulf.
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A welfare group says public housing waiting times in the Northern Territory are getting longer and support agencies are struggling to help people in need.
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A draft report from Energy Safe Victoria (ESV) has found that smart meters are safe and do not pose any greater risk than electronic or electro-mechanical meters.
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The SA Premier said he still expected the Olympic Dam mine expansion to proceed, despite BHP Billiton planning to shelve some spending plans.
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The managers of the Fulham prison in south-east Victoria have threatened to dock staff pay by up to 60 per cent if workers implement new work bans.
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Dozens of anti-gas hub signs have been pulled down from intersections and buildings around Broome.
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Representatives of more than 200 companies and organisations are in Mount Isa in north-west Queensland for the city's annual mining expo.
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The union representing workers at dispute at the Cairns Base Hospital's redevelopment site in far north Queensland are concerned their safety could be compromised if issues are not...
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It was a volatile session on Wall Street overnight as investors sold down early gains as uncertainty about Greece's political and economic future outweighed positive US economic data.
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A new report suggests more than 500 water bores on farms across Queensland's southern inland will be affected by the coal seam gas (CSG) industry.
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Despite some scientific concern, licences have been renewed for shark diving tourism businesses off Port Lincoln in SA.
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An examination of the lease variation charge has found that it is stifling development in Canberra, and adversely affecting housing affordability.
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The operator of Port Pirie's lead and zinc smelter in SA is to face tougher limits on emissions.
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It is unclear how many jobs will be saved after a cleaning company operating in SA and the NT went into liquidation.
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Facebook has increased the size of its initial public share sale by 25 per cent.
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Jennifer Lopez unseats Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey on Forbes' most powerful celebrity list.
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Debt-laden Greece will go to the polls for the second time in less than two months on June 17, as fears grow of more instability over the country's eurozone future.
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The government in East Timor has shown off a European-built pipeline which it says can be used to send natural gas to the country from the disputed Greater Sunrise Field off the...
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Stocks have suffered their worst drop this year as escalating financial and political turmoil in Europe sends shivers through the markets.
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A parliamentary committee has recommended authorities investigate the collapse of Trio Capital after the biggest superannuation fraud in Australian history.
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The chairman of BHP Billiton says the company's Australian operations are facing pressure from high production costs, difficult industrial relations, high taxes and global instability.
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A Japanese consortium confirms it will pay $4.4 billion for a stake in a West Australian gas field as it seeks new energy sources after last year's devastating tsunami.
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A former bank manager from the mid-north coast of New South Wales has been charged over the alleged theft of more than $600,000 from customer accounts.
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West Torrens Council says it may not be committed to markets on the Brickworks site in the longer term.
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Union leaders are describing the rise of insecure jobs as the new frontier in the battle for workers' rights and are promising to fight back.
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The Australian share market struggled in morning trade, touching a two-month low amid strengthening concerns that Greece would not repay its debts.
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Are farm efficiency and bigger yields changing dietary habits and promoting rising obesity among Australians?
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The construction arm of St Hilliers Group has been placed in voluntary administration, throwing into disarray building projects in regional Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT.
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The Premier has announced a boost to electricity concessions for Tasmania's 78,000 pensioners and healthcare card holders.
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Worries about eurozone instability continue to weigh on consumer confidence despite the Reserve Bank slashing the cash rate this month, a closely watched survey finds.
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With Greece's political and economic future teetering on the edge, two economists take a look at what could happen to everyone's money if Greece pulls out of the eurozone.
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Building company St Hilliers has told unions it wants to complete major projects in Canberra despite going into voluntary administration.
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JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon narrowly defeats a move to curb his powers, as the investment bank faces an FBI investigation into its shock $2 billion trading loss.
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The Northern Territory trucking industry hopes legal action being taken against the Federal Government by companies involved in the live cattle trade will act as a deterrent to...
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The Queensland Government has ordered a review of the previous Labor government's cross-river rail project in Brisbane.
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Unions WA is pushing for the state's minimum wage to be increased by 7 per cent but businesses say that would cripple small cafes, shops and restaurants.
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The corporate watchdog says there have been more breaches of insider trading in the past three years than in the entire preceding decade.
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The Fair Work Ombudsman is continuing its investigation of Queensland's real estate industry.
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Conservationists and commercial fishermen are calling on the Federal Government to reverse its decision to allow oil and gas exploration in some areas off the Northern Territory coast.
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The political turmoil in Greece has kept pressure on financial markets overnight, with Wall Street reversing earlier gains following news Greek political leaders failed to form a...
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The chairman of Tasmania's main business lobby has resigned, citing family and business reasons.
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The New South Wales Government says farmers could be offered greater compensation to encourage coal seam gas projects on their land.
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The new owners of the Heyfield timber mill in south-east Victoria say no jobs will be lost as a result of the takeover.
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France and Germany have vowed to unite to tackle Europe's economic storm and keep debt-ridden Greece in the eurozone.
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The Opposition has demanded the SA Government reveal what is known about a possible prosecution by the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) of the operator of Port Pirie's lead...
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Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm, has angrily lashed out after being charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
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New data shows Europe's largest economy, Germany, has saved the euro zone from slipping into recession, but stagnation in France and contraction in southern Europe underlined...
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Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson mounts a stanch defence of the federal budget, denying accusations that the return to surplus is just smoke and mirrors.
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Former Treasury boss Ken Henry has defended key advice he provided to the former Rudd government, including sweeping cash stimulus payments to households as the global financial...
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When Collie resident May Hollins' last home insurance bill arrived, she was convinced the company had made a mistake.
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Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm, has been charged with perverting the course of justice over the News of the World phone hacking scandal.
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ABC radio presenter Eoin Cameron has had surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain.
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The Australian share market slipped today and the local currency remains under pressure as ongoing political uncertainty in Greece hits global markets.
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The former chairwoman of ABC Learning has told a Brisbane court the company board moved to halt the buying of new childcare centres because they were going too far, too fast.
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The chairman of a parliamentary committee into Australia's food industry has accused Coles of giving its own brands more shelf space than other brands.
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The Roper River Landcare Group has refuted claims by traditional owners at Mataranka in the Northern Territory that some waterways are drying up due to agriculture and mining.
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The Police Commissioner, Karl O'Callaghan, says it is costing $100,000 a day to station extra officers at the site of anti-gas hub protests near Broome.
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Federal Indigenous Health Warren Snowdon says forcing petrol stations to sell the non-aromatic Opal fuel in areas where petrol sniffing is a problem would create a legal minefield.
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The payments clearing association says there is no need to phase out cheques despite their usage dropping by more than 60 per cent in the past decade.
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Tasmanian timber company Gunns has sold its Victorian sawmill for $28 million.
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The New South Wales Government has asked the state's Industrial Relations Commission to stop public school teachers from striking this Friday.
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The company behind the Wheatstone natural gas project in the Pilbara says it has signed an agreement to sell liquefied natural gas to a Japanese company.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard is pledging to work alongside union leaders as they deal with the fallout from the scandal-plagued Health Services Union.
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The Tasmanian Government will make significant changes to the energy sector, selling Aurora's retail arm and merging its poles and wires business with Transend.
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The author of a report into Tasmania's native forest industry believes the Federal-State forest agreement will be unable to achieve peace.
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It seems borrowers can thank commercial banks for the Reserve Bank's decision to slash the official cash rate by 50 basis points this month.
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The Government and farmers welcome the dollar's fall below parity with its US counterpart, but some say it is too soon to tell how it will affect other industries.
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A reopening of OneSteel's Iron Baron mine, near Whyalla in South Australia, has created 120 jobs.
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A former high-ranking Victoria Police officer has avoided a conviction for leaking information to the media about sex crime investigations.
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One of the most powerful women on Wall Street is leaving JP Morgan in the wake of massive trading losses which could cost the bank more than $3 billion.
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The Greek political stalemate and banking problems in Spain weighed on trade on Wall Street overnight, sparking more worries about the strength of the eurozone.
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The insurance company SGIO has defended massive increases in premiums for flood cover saying only 2.5 per cent of its customers will be affected.
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Mining magnate Clive Palmer says the Bimblebox nature reserve, where he wants to develop a coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin, is not a high quality environment.
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The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) says the mining industry could do more to address rises in the cost of living caused by mining activity.
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The independent MP whose electorate includes Port Pirie, Geoff Brock, wants the South Australian Government to help fund a proposed redevelopment of the city's smelter.
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The Premier has signalled the State Government will not be moving to break up Hydro Tasmania as recommended by an expert panel review.
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ABC journalist Paul Lockyer and cameraman John Bean, who died in a helicopter crash last year, have been honoured at a memorial in Washington DC.
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Concerns have been raised about the accuracy of a postal vote on a new employment agreement for workers in central Queensland's Bowen Basin.
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Share markets in London, Paris and Frankfurt dived overnight as political leaders in Athens tried to end a stand-off which could force Greece to abandon the euro.
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The Opposition has labelled the Government's television advertisements on the carbon tax a "con", saying its latest campaign to raise awareness of carbon tax compensation measures...
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Video game and software retailer GAME has appointed administrators to its Australian operation just a few months after its British parent company hit rocky waters, putting the...
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The Department of Mining is to look at implementing recommendations from an advisory group on regulating the uranium mining industry.
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The Federal Government is facing a potential class action lawsuit over the halting of the live export cattle trade to Indonesia a year ago.
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The share market has shaken off losses late in the session to end slightly higher, while the Australian dollar is struggling to return to parity with its US counterpart, amid...
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The Economic Regulation Authority, has warned against merging two of the state's power utilities, saying it will reduce competition and put more pressure on prices.
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The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has recorded an annual loss of nearly $10 billion.
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US media is reporting that three top executives of JP Morgan will resign this week after the investment bank lost $2 billion in risky derivative trades.
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Perth motorists have been warned that LPG could be in limited supply following a problem at BP's refinery at Kwinana.
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Offshore gas and petroleum exploration zones will be expanded off four states and the Northern Territory.
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More than 50 police have escorted a Woodside convoy past anti-gas hub camps north of Broome as protesters claim police numbers were over the top.
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The former boss of the Victoria Police sex crimes squad Glenn Davies has been described in the Melbourne Magistrates Court as a passionate visionary whose life was ruined after he...
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Qantas has rejected claims plans to close heavy maintenance operations in Melbourne or Brisbane will violate its own safety management procedures.
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A Brisbane market has rejected a shipment of fish from Gladstone in central Queensland, amid fears of disease.
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The Australian share market has started the week in positive territory as moves by China to encourage lending and boost economic growth outweigh investor concerns about political...
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The trial of former ABC Learning director Martin Kemp has begun in the District Court in Brisbane.
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A university researcher says the closure of a central Queensland coal mine will not have a big impact on the state's economy.
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A Queensland academic says authorities may have to consider moving shipping lanes if increased coal exports put whales at risk.
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The Victorian Transport Association (VTA) says drivers who break down on Melbourne's freeways are getting a free ride.
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A major supermarket contract for a Tasmanian yoghurt company is being touted as a sign of a strong dairy sector.
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The Australian dollar dips below parity with the US dollar as investors seek safe havens amid fears Greece will be forced to exit the eurozone.
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There is concern about a proposal for Wilton in Sydney's outer south west to be the possible site for a second Sydney airport.
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The owner of the Bimblebox Nature Refuge in central-west Queensland says the area needs to be retained as a whole if threatened species are to be fully protected.
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Welfare groups have welcomed action by the State Government to halve the power price increase facing consumers in July.
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Yahoo! chief executive Scott Thompson has stepped down in the face of allegations he never earned the computer science degree he claimed on his CV to have obtained.
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Greek leaders remain at an impasse after talks to form an emergency government fall apart after just 90 minutes.
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The Fair Work Ombudsman has launched an investigation into food outlets in Western Australia, South Australia, and the Northern Territory.
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Tasmania's Chamber of Commerce and Industry is investigating whether State Government funding has been misappropriated.
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New South Wales Police say they have arrested 42 people during a weekend crackdown on criminal and anti-social behaviour on public transport.
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Greece's president will meet political party chiefs today in a last-ditch attempt to form a cabinet and quell fears of a Greek eurozone exit.
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Statistics showing the resource rich state of Queensland has the biggest rise in business failures has brought into focus Australia's multi-speed economy.
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The union movement is discussing plans for a new "millionaires tax."
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A Tasmanian business is about to start exporting a marine pest that has invaded Tasmanian waters to Asia.
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A senior currency strategist says Europe's political turmoil, and lower global growth has led to the sharp fall in the Australian dollar.
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Former News International executive Rebekah Brooks fronts an inquiry into phone hacking.
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The local share market has seen its worst week in six months with a fall of 2.5 per cent.
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There are signs of financial distress among Australia's junior mining companies.
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Billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer's resources company China First has cancelled a major contract involving a coal mine planned for the Galilee Basin in central Queensland.
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Jobs and regional growth will be the major themes of the Victorian Nationals' leader's speech to the party's annual conference in Bendigo at the weekend.
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ANZ Bank is the last of the big four banks to announce its move on interest rates, cutting its standard variable mortgage rate by 37 basis points.
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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott indicates a Coalition government would consider scrapping some of the extra family payments announced in this year's budget.
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Australian businessman Dick Smith has taken a swipe at foreign-owned food companies that advertise their products as Australian.
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The Federal Government is pushing ahead with its court case to appoint an administrator to the troubled East branch of the Health Services Union despite the NSW Government passing...
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The Federal Court has upheld a Fair Work Australia decision allowing high school students to work for less than three hours per day for pocket money.
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US banking giant JPMorgan Chase has revealed it would incur losses that could run into the billions as a result of bad bets on derivatives.
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Premier Campbell Newman says he will not be reconsidering whether to support a plan to build an electricity line between Mount Isa and Townsville in north Queensland.
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Some positive political developments in the eurozone have brought relief to investors in the United States and Europe.
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is warning customers to be wary of businesses claiming excessive price rises due to the carbon tax.
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The union representing Murray Goulburn workers has accused the dairy co-operative of being greedy.
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More than 100 police are expected to arrive in Broome in coming days as Woodside resumes work on the Kimberley gas hub.
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The Premier has launched an Invest in South Australia drive at the South Australia Club in London.
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A tourism operator has agreed to adhere to strict guidelines on helicopter joy flights over Kangaroo Island in SA.
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The New South Wales Government has given the building company Reed Construction nine days to prove it can finish more than $240 million worth of road works.
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Operations are winding down at BHP Billiton-Mitsubishi Alliance's (BMA) Norwich Park coal mine in central Queensland, which is being closed for financial reasons.
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David Cameron's ex-media chief Andy Coulson has told Britain's Leveson inquiry into press ethics he assured the future prime minister he knew nothing about phone hacking at News of...
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A report by a leading accounting firm says Australian banks did not boost profits by charging higher interest on loans.
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The Australian dollar bounced off its five-month low today after data showed a much better than expected jobs report for April.
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An Auckland suburb is being put under a biosecurity lockdown following the discovery of a Queensland fruit fly.
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A senior industrial officer with the Health Services Union (HSU) says he was fired on Wednesday after encouraging delegates to speak out about the union leadership.
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Central Australian tourism operators and representatives of travel industry organisations have called a series of crisis meetings.
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Locals say a flood buy-back scheme is turning Benjeroop into a ghost town.
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The Chairman of Woolworths has defended the company's track record of using trucks to transport goods around the country.
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About a dozen managers and directors of major trucking firms are facing charges over tampering with speed limiters on rigs operated by the companies.
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Optus says it will appeal against a landmark decision that prevents its customers from streaming delayed sports matches on their mobile phones.
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The dairy co-operative Murray Goulburn is cutting 301 jobs across its operations.
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An East Timorese refugee's dream of a national airline is over, less than a year after the first plane took to the skies.
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Japan's government will effectively nationalise TEPCO, the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, as part of a $12 billion restructuring plan.
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The management of the Fulham prison in south-east Victoria has been accused of putting lives at risk during a planned stop-work overnight.
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Australia's unemployment rate drops to a 12-month low of 4.9 per cent in a surprise result as people give up looking for work.
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Qantas pilots lose their Federal Court appeal against a ban imposed by the workplace umpire that prevents them from taking any form of industrial action.
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Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man launches a strident defence of his boss amid claims he is unfit to run a major company as News Corporation unveils surging profits.
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Police have arrested two activists after an early morning protest against the timber company Ta Ann on the Hobart waterfront.
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The Northern Territory Minerals Council has expressed disappointment at the possible diversion of $50 million in Commonwealth roads funding earmarked for Darwin's East Arm Port.
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The State Government has denied reports it is preparing to increase electricity prices by another 15 per cent, but has confirmed there will be a price rise in next week's State budget.
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National Australia Bank has recorded a 15.5 per cent drop in first-half profit due largely to the cost of restructuring loss-making operations in the United Kingdom.
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A switch to canola crops from wheat, based on returns for farmers, mirrors a trend overseas.
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Concerns about Europe's political outlook and its debt problems plagued trade on Wall Street overnight.
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The Community and Public Sector Union wants made public details about the outsourcing of administrative services at the Government Employees Superannuation Board.
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The ACT Government says its proposed new energy laws will increase market competition and help lower power prices.
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South Australia's Premier said the state was often confused with South Africa or mistaken as being a part of Victoria.
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Administrators for a mining company that has suspended operations in far north Queensland say there are more than 830 creditors.
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A national trucking company based in central Queensland is trialling new technology designed to stop drivers from falling asleep at the wheel.
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Cooroy Mountain Group's new owner says receivers have guaranteed to continue funding the business on Queensland's Sunshine Coast until an impasse is resolved.
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A housing group says an acute lack of construction has caused median rental prices to climb by more than 50 per cent in some Queensland mining towns.
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A major mining company has been ordered to release more details to unions and workers about the closure of the Norwich Park coal mine in central Queensland.
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The Chinese public and authorities have expressed outrage after a Ferrari sports car left tyre tracks on Nanjing's ancient city wall, possibly permanently damaging the protected landmark.
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The Queensland Government says there is little chance it will revive plans to build the CopperString project between Mount Isa and Townsville in the state's north.
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Coles has rejected claims from one of Australia's biggest unions that policies of the big supermarket chains are contributing to the annual road toll.
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Today's official job figures are expected to show the unemployment rate is once again rising as non-mining sectors continue to struggle.
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Greens leader Christine Milne says the Federal Government's decision to delay $2.9 billion in foreign aid is a broken promise and sends "selfish signals" to Australia's neighbours.
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There are predictions that resource-rich Burma could become a new Asian tiger, if sanctions continue to ease on the previously shuttered economy.
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As expected, last night's budget halved the tax concession available to high earners for their contributions to superannuation, in a move that has been welcomed by people who have...
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Concerns over political and economic instability in Europe sent the Australian dollar down close to parity with the US.
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The Northern Territory Chamber of Commerce predicts the carbon tax will increase power costs for businesses in the Territory by up to 40 per cent.
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Western Desert Resources has criticised the Northern Territory Government's mining application process.
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Significant tax changes hidden deep in the budget papers may impact the rate of foreign investment in Australia, as well as airline profits.
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A court has heard billionaire Gina Rinehart has again changed the date her children can access money from a trust.
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Centro shareholders are set for a record settlement against the failed property developer and its former auditor.
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Hundreds of workers have walked off the largest construction site in New South Wales over safety concerns.
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Oil and gas producer Santos says the rate of oil recovered from a leak at its processing plant near Whyalla is continuing to decline.
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The State Government has defended the cost of installing toilets at railway stations, for protective services officers (PSO) to use.
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A Rockhampton family who run a small supply and maintenance company in central Queensland are worried about the Federal Government's mining and carbon taxes and the decision to...
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Sugar lobby group Canegrowers says it is disappointed the Federal Government has not delivered tax breaks in the Budget for the industry.
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North Queensland federal MP Bob Katter says the federal Budget has preserved funding for a major energy project in the region.
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Global markets have been rocked by more uncertainty about Europe's ability to solve its debt problems.
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Two leading Queensland organisations say the Federal Budget has neglected the struggling business sector.
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A national union leader says Queensland's mining regions should be wary of becoming too much like Western Australia.
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Treasurer Jack Snelling said South Australia was facing its largest revenue fall in history, paving the way for a tough state budget this month.
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Look back at how reaction to the federal budget unfolded throughout the day.
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The Baillieu Government's wish list appears to have been dealt a blow in the Federal Budget. The Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI) says it has potentially put at...
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The Federal Government has announced it will meet its promised foreign aid target a year later than promised.
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Wayne Swan has put key business reforms on the backburner, abandoning the Government's planned company tax cut to fund measures to support families and small business.
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Stocks closed higher after recovering from a brief dip into negative territory, but investors remained cautious.
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The Northern Territory Government has backed a call for petrol stations to be forced to sell the non-aromatic Opal Fuel in areas where petrol sniffing is a problem.
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Last-minute budget leaks reveal the Government is scrapping its promised 1 per cent company tax cut to help fund a $3.6 billion package for low and middle-income families.
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The value of Tasmania's monthly exports has increased by more than $90 million to its highest level since late 2010.
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Tasmania's Premier says the state's main business lobby needs to sort out its finances, but there is no need for an independent inquiry into its losses.
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Anyone who has caught a train in Perth will be familiar with the scores of messages the PTA plasters around the inside of the carriage.
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Australia's trade deficit has blown out by more than expected in March as imports increased more than exports.
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A witness has told a coronial inquest into a fatal level crossing crash on the Mornington Peninsula four years ago, the train driver took longer than expected to stop the train.
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