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There was a surprise fall in retail turnover in the key Christmas shopping period, but official figures offer a glimmer of hope for department stores and fashion retailers.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, retail, australia
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The Queensland Government is facing a potential class action worth hundreds of millions of dollars over last year's floods in south-east Queensland.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, states-and-territories, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, ipswich-4305
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The 16-year-old daughter of a man killed by a prominent lawyer in a notorious hit-and-run collision in South Australia says the case has left her with little faith in the justice system.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, laws, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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The Australian share market has begun the week in positive territory, following strong gains on the major indices in the United States and Europe at the end of last week.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, markets, currency, stockmarket, australia
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Rising prices for transport and utilities drove inflation higher in January, according to a private measure, but the annual rate remained within the Reserve Bank's target range.
Topics: economic-trends, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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The board of the Reserve Bank holds its first meeting of the year tomorrow and bets are firming for another interest rate cut, but it remains a close call.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, money-and-monetary-policy, australia
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Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce says legislation proposed by the Independent Senator Nick Xenophon poses a major threat to the company and Australian jobs.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, air-transport, australia
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Federal Employment Minister Bill Shorten says there are reasons why a report on Labor MP Craig Thomson may not be able to be publicly released.
Topics: federal-government, australia
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Julia Gillard has overtaken Tony Abbott as preferred prime minister for the first time in nine months in the latest Nielsen poll.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, alp, gillard-julia, abbott-tony, australia
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The Queensland town of St George has been cut off by rising floodwaters, after thousands fled in the largest mandatory evacuation in the state's history.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, st-george-4487, qld, charleville-4470, mitchell-4465, roma-4455, australia
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Police are looking for a man who used a toy gun to rob a hotel in Sydney's north-west, then locked two employees inside the safe.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, armed-robbery, emerton-2770, nsw, australia, sydney-2000
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James Cameron is among those mourning documentary filmmakers Andrew Wight and Mike deGruy, who died in a NSW helicopter crash.
Topics: accidents, air-and-space, disasters-and-accidents, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, documentary, jaspers-brush-2535, nsw, australia
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The Prime Minister has called on Labor MPs to show more internal discipline this year, as speculation about her leadership and a possible challenge from Kevin Rudd continue to stalk the party.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, alp, political-parties, australia
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Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan says Australian banks should pass on a full rates cut if the Reserve Bank moves the mark lower.
Topics: economic-trends, business-economics-and-finance, banking, industry, federal-government, australia
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A group of Australians is in Burma for one of the first major business and academic gatherings since the Asian nation reopened its borders.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, international-aid-and-trade, world-politics, burma, australia
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Treasurer Wayne Swan angrily rejects continuing speculation about the Labor leadership ahead of today's caucus meeting.
Topics: federal-government, alp, australia
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Residents in St George have been advised to evacuate the southern Queensland town as the Balonne River continues to rise rapidly.
Topics: floods, charleville-4470, roma-4455, mitchell-4465, qld, australia
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Residents in the Queensland town of Charleville endure a nervous night as they wait to see if the levee keeping back the Warrego River will hold.
Topics: floods, charleville-4470, roma-4455, mitchell-4465, qld, australia
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Two men have died in a helicopter crash on the New South Wales south coast.
Topics: air-and-space, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, jaspers-brush-2535, nsw, australia
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Police have captured a man who escaped from a prison in southern New South Wales.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, crime, delegate-2633, goulburn-2580, nsw, australia, bombala-2632
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Professional free-diver Christina Saenz de Santamaria, on what it takes to reach depths of up to 60 metres on a single breath.
Topics: diving, oceans-and-reefs, united-states, australia
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Queensland's Floods commissioner has attacked a report in today's Courier Mail newspaper, which she says threatens to undermine public confidence in the floods inquiry.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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The Federal Opposition has released its costings for reopening a detention centre on Nauru, saying it could do it for a third of the price the Government has quoted.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, liberals, alp, nauru, australia
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Federal Labor MP Dick Adams says today's caucus meeting is not about rallying support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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The critically endangered orange-bellied parrot appears to be moving closer to extinction.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, environment, tas, strathblane-7109, australia
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