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• Queensland Rail celebrates 150 years

  30-07-2015 23:01 via abc.net.au
  
  When Queensland's first railway opened on this day 150 years ago, four trains were welcomed at Bigges Camp station, west of Brisbane, with much fanfare and cannon fire.
  
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• Looking back at 150 years of Queensland Rail

  30-07-2015 23:01 via abc.net.au
  
  When Queensland's first railway opened on this day 150 years ago, four trains were welcomed at Bigges Camp station, west of Brisbane, with much fanfare and cannon fire.
  
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• Shenhua mine 'not risk free', ground water expert says

  30-07-2015 22:52 via abc.net.au
  
  The science surrounding the impact of the controversial Shenhua coal mine in the Liverpool Plains district of New South Wales is far from settled, a ground water engineer says.
  
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• Qantas downgrades services from Perth to Melbourne, Sydney

  30-07-2015 11:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Qantas drops two daily flights between Perth and Melbourne and decreases capacity on some of its services between Western Australia and Sydney.
  
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• Mount Lyell mine owner charged over deaths of two workers

  30-07-2015 10:58 via abc.net.au
  
  The owner of Tasmania's Mount Lyell copper mine faces charges over the deaths of two miners in 2013, with a potential penalty of $1.5 million if convicted.
  
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• Parcel drivers claim underpayment by Australia Post contractors

  30-07-2015 10:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Post and parcel drivers claim they are being paid well below award rates by Australia Post contractors, and that drivers are missing out on superannuation and sick pay because they are being classified as subcontractors, rather than employees.
  
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• Rising iron ore prices boosts share market for second straight day

  30-07-2015 10:16 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market rises for the second day in a row, with the mining industry leading the gains after another increase to iron ore prices.
  
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• Cash Converters facing Federal Court class action over alleged Qld law breach

  30-07-2015 09:53 via abc.net.au
  
  A major class action against Cash Converters alleges the company breached Queensland consumer law by making borrowers pay hefty brokerage fees.
  
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• Terms of trade collapse, national income takes a 'significant hit'

  30-07-2015 07:45 via abc.net.au
  
  The purchasing power of Australian households has taken a severe battering with the nation's terms of trade collapsing in the past three months.
  
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• Uber seizes on report that says lack of taxi competition costing $40m a year

  30-07-2015 06:27 via abc.net.au
  
  A lack of competition in the Brisbane taxi market could be leaving consumers $40 million worse off each year, according to the Queensland Premier's advisers on economic policy.
  
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• Government rubbishes 'xenophobic' claims of overseas workers on Spirit refit

  30-07-2015 06:09 via abc.net.au
  
  The Tasmanian Government rubbishes union suggestions up to 100 overseas contractors are working on the refurbishment of the Spirit of Tasmania I ferry.
  
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• Tourism operators in Tasmania's north-west advised to boost online presence

  30-07-2015 04:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Tourism operators in Tasmania's north-west have to boost their online presence, a digital marketing expert says.
  
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• Abbott warns Labor against 'xenophobic politics' over China FTA

  30-07-2015 03:59 via abc.net.au
  
  The Prime Minister says the Chinese free trade agreement is too important for Labor to undermine it with what he calls "short-term, xenophobic politics".
  
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• Building approvals dragged down by volatile apartment sector

  30-07-2015 03:42 via abc.net.au
  
  Official figures show that a steep drop in the volatile apartment sector has led a bigger-than-expected fall in building approvals.
  
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• Chinese investors take activist approach to Australian companies

  30-07-2015 02:37 via abc.net.au
  
  While the world looks on aghast at the carnage on the Shanghai and Shenzen exchanges, a new breed of Chinese investor has begun to wield power on the Australian Securities Exchange.
  
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• Housing bubble could burn investors warns Nobel Prize winning economist

  30-07-2015 01:03 via abc.net.au
  
  A Nobel Prize laureate is the latest to warn that Sydney and Melbourne's real estate markets are showing every sign of being in a dangerous price bubble.
  
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• Wall St rises despite signs of imminent rate rise

  30-07-2015 00:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Wall Street closes higher, despite the Federal Reserve moving another step closer to the first US interest rate hike in nearly a decade.
  
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