Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its monthly housing finance numbers for October this week which provided some interesting reading. Broadly speaking, the results are split by investment finance commitments and owner occupier commitments. For the owner occupier commitments the ABS publishes data which shows both the volume and ...
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been arrested in relation to the phone-hacking scandal in Britain.
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Three companies and a director are being prosecuted for allegedly underpaying four Filipino workers on Australian oil rigs.
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The Federal Opposition has used Question Time to pressure Treasurer Wayne Swan over his mining royalties stoush with Western Australian.
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Saturday, May 21st, 2011
A war of words between the Western Australian and Federal governments over iron ore royalties has intensified with a Labor Senator accusing the WA Premier, Colin Barnett, of throwing a tantrum. Mr Barnett has announced plans to increase the royalty rate paid on a certain type of iron ore in ...
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Qantas pilots are threatening to strike amid confirmation the airline's Wallabies plane is actually a New Zealand aircraft.
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The head of the union representing Fairfax journalists says they will be taking the company to the industrial mediator over potential job cuts.
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Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Victoria's regional train operator, V-Line has bluntly contradicted a feel-good announcement by Victoria's Transport Minister.
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Friday, April 15th, 2011
British Petroleum has faced protests from angry fishermen and disgruntled shareholders at its first annual general meeting since the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Power supplier Transend has apologised to 15,000 Tasmanian households left without power for almost six hours overnight.
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