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• ECB stimulus speculation boosts Wall Street

  03-09-2015 23:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Markets in the United States close higher, with investor sentiment strengthened by indications the European Central Bank is preparing for additional stimulus measures.
  
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• Melbourne's train services resume but further strikes planned

  03-09-2015 22:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Train services return to normal after a four-hour strike brought Melbourne's rail network to a standstill, with more strikes planned for Saturday morning.
  
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• Melbourne's train services resume after strike action, but further strikes planned

  03-09-2015 22:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Train services are returning to normal after a four-hour strike brought Melbourne's rail network to a standstill, with more strikes planned for Saturday morning.
  
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• Melbourne's train services resume after strike action

  03-09-2015 22:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Train services are returning to normal after a four hour strike brought Melbourne's rail network to a standstill.
  
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• Melbourne's train network shuts down amid industrial dispute

  03-09-2015 22:46 via abc.net.au
  
  The gates to Melbourne's Flinders Street station are locked as train staff walk off the job, putting more pressure on the city's tram network and roads.
  
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• Melbourne faces transport chaos again as train network shuts down

  03-09-2015 22:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Melbourne's public transport system is facing a chaotic day as train staff walk off the job, putting more pressure on the city's tram network and roads.
  
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• Bell Bay smelter marks highs and lows of six decades

  03-09-2015 22:40 via abc.net.au
  
  One of Tasmania's largest manufacturing employers says it has been able to celebrate 60 years of operation because it has adapted to tough economic conditions.
  
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• Star Wars: The Force Awakens unboxing stuns the toy world

  03-09-2015 22:10
  
  Australian Star Wars fans were the first in the world to get a look at the new Star Wars Episode 7 toys on Thursday.
  
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• Unions strike deal on Barrow Island LNG project worker conditions

  03-09-2015 13:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Unions reach an agreement with employers at the Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on Barrow Island, averting proposed strike action.
  
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• 7-Eleven worker 'fired after taking stand about working conditions'

  03-09-2015 11:30 via abc.net.au
  
  A 7-Eleven worker who lost his job after complaining about being forced to work for more hours than his visa allowed says he was treated like a modern-day "slave".
  
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• Shareholders green light $1.8b Sirius takeover

  03-09-2015 10:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Shareholders vote overwhelmingly in favour of Independence Group's $1.8 billion takeover of Sirius Resources, which will create WA's largest diversified miner.
  
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• Crowd funding offers lucrative leg-up for entrepreneurs

  03-09-2015 10:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Savvy entrepreneurs - including a dairy that offered 'cow buddies' in return for sponsorship - are getting a leg-up from crowd funding schemes.
  
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• How the internet is changing Territory small business

  03-09-2015 10:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Far from the image of dusty roads and old pubs, digital technology is now at the centre of doing business in the Northern Territory, a Google executive says
  
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• Share market loses ground late in trade

  03-09-2015 10:30 via abc.net.au
  
  A strong lead from Wall Street initially supports the Australian share market, but the ASX loses ground in afternoon trade.
  
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• Rio Tinto holds firm on China target

  03-09-2015 10:27
  
  Rio Tinto has refused to water down predictions for Chinese steel growth, despite BHP Billiton doing so.
  
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• United Petroleum will 'fully cooperate' with inquiry into wage claims

  03-09-2015 10:01 via abc.net.au
  
  United Petroleum says it will fully cooperate if asked to appear before a Senate inquiry examining allegations that its franchisees underpay workers.
  
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• Secretly recorded phone call reveals union officials intentionally disrupted building site, commission hears

  03-09-2015 09:58 via abc.net.au
  
  The trade union royal commission hears a secretly recorded phone call alleged to reveal two construction union officials discussing how they would disrupt a Canberra building site.
  
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• Phone call reveals CFMEU officials disrupted building site on purpose, commission hears

  03-09-2015 09:58 via abc.net.au
  
  The trade union royal commission hears a secretly recorded phone call alleged to reveal two construction union officials discussing how they would disrupt a Canberra building site.
  
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• Government urged to take action against 'dirty' money in real estate

  03-09-2015 09:15 via abc.net.au
  
  The Federal Government is under mounting international pressure to strengthen its laws against money laundering through real estate.
  
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• Positive factors in Qld economy could take two years to play out: analyst

  03-09-2015 09:03 via abc.net.au
  
  It could take two years for positive factors to emerge in the Queensland economy, a leading economist says.
  
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• NAB rules out funding Adani's $16bn Carmichael coal mine

  03-09-2015 08:29 via abc.net.au
  
  The National Australia Bank has become the latest to announce that it will not fund the Adani company's controversial $16 billion Carmichael coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin.
  
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• Bradken foundry closure in Adelaide delayed by six months

  03-09-2015 07:20 via abc.net.au
  
  The planned closure of the Bradken foundry at Kilburn in Adelaide is delayed by six months — until June next year.
  
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• Borroloola clans call to shut down McArthur River Mine and prosecute owners

  03-09-2015 07:10 via abc.net.au
  
  A group of Indigenous people from around Borroloola present a petition of more than 3,600 signatures calling for the owners of the McArthur River Mine to be prosecuted for environmental damage and for the mine to be shut down.
  
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• Concerns over Australian economy as retail sales go backward

  03-09-2015 06:45 via abc.net.au
  
  There are more worrying signs for the Australian economy, with official data showing retail sales went backwards in July.
  
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• Australia Post boss to face Senate over underpaid worker claims

  03-09-2015 06:23 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia Post chief executive Ahmed Fahour will be called to appear before a Senate inquiry into working visas to examine claims some delivery contractors are underpaying workers and illegally using foreign student labour.
  
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• Balance of payments improves but $2.46bn trade deficit remains

  03-09-2015 04:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's trade performance improves marginally but still records its 16th consecutive monthly balance of payments deficit.
  
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• NZ suspends aid to Nauru citing diminishing rule of law

  03-09-2015 02:45 via abc.net.au
  
  New Zealand suspends aid to Nauru's justice sector citing Nauru government actions seen as diminishing the rule of law, Radio New Zealand reports.
  
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• Labor insists it does not want China-Australia FTA renegotiated

  03-09-2015 02:44 via abc.net.au
  
  Labor leader Bill Shorten says the Government should legislate safeguards for local employment in the free trade agreement, but insists his party does not want the deal renegotiated.
  
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• Economic growth close to zero as living standards slip

  03-09-2015 01:55
  
  A sharp fall in national income has all but obliterated economic growth, pushing down income per head by the most since the GFC.
  
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• Australian dollar forecast to hit US60 cents

  03-09-2015 01:32
  
  Few would have thought a year ago the Australian dollar, which was barely 5 cents from parity with the greenback, would be trading at US70¢ but on Wednesday it plunged lower to reach a six-year low.
  
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• Wall Street posts healthy gain, ends two-day rout

  03-09-2015 00:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Wall Street posts a healthy gain overnight, ending a two-day rout, as investors put their worries about Chinese economic growth behind them — at least for now.
  
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• Swiss freeze millions amid investigations of Malaysian fund 1MDB

  03-09-2015 00:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Swiss authorities freeze funds in Swiss banks amid investigations of Malaysia's troubled 1MDB fund on suspicions of corruption and money laundering.
  
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