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PM 'lying' as SPC rejects award claims
3:30PM Ben Packham SPC Ardmona has hit back at claims its enterprise agreement is too generous, as Liberal Sharman Stone accused the PM of "lying" about the firm's plight.
Costello takes top Future Fund job
3:40PM Ben Packham THE Abbott government has confirmed former treasurer Peter Costello as the new chairman of the $96 billion Future Fund.
Victorian Speaker quits his post
3:23PM JOHN FERGUSON VICTORIAN Speaker Ken Smith today quit his job, unleashing a tirade against rebel independent MP Geoff Shaw.
RBA keeps rates steady at 2.5pc
5:09PM Adam Creighton THE RBA has kept official interest rates on hold in the hope existing rate settings will be enough to battle both rising inflation and unemployment.
Falls wipe $28bn off market
5:03PM THE sharemarket has suffered its heaviest one-day losses since August.
$1m reward offer over missing schoolgirl
2:33PM AAP THE father of a Melbourne girl missing since 2011 believes she is alive, as a $1m reward went on offer over her disappearance.
Car crashes on to Bondi Beach
4:24PM LUCKY it wasn't a sunny day. A car has veered off a road at Sydney's Bondi Beach, plunged down a hill and on to the sand.
NY movement's spraying power
4:27PM AP GRAFFITI's move from the subway to mainstream, spurred by an iconic 1978 'Howard the Duck' mural, is the focus of a New York exhibition.
Homes scorched but spared in WA blaze
4:02PM AAP FIREFIGHTERS are being praised for saving up to 200 homes as they battled a massive bushfire south of Perth.
- Tanker drivers want govt to act
- Govt accused of misleading over SPC grant
- RBA keeps rates steady at 2.5pc
- Sailors rescued from rough Bass Strait
- RBA signals end of rate cut cycle
- Victorian Speaker lashes out on exit
- Victorian fire crews contain grassfire
- Afghan ambassador critical of asylum case
- Abuse charge for educator in YouTube case
- Aussies world's biggest punters: report
- RBA keeps rates steady at 2.5pc
- RBA signals end of rate cut cycle
- Falls wipe $28bn off market
- Weak Wall St, rates call weigh on ASX
- Weak Wall St, rates call weigh on ASX
- NZ stocks drop in global crimp
- Stocks to watch at close on Tuesday
- Kiwi drops to two-month low against Aussie
- REA Group committed to global expansion
- Costello takes top Future Fund job
Opinion
The Coalition is winning the asylum battle
Greg Sheridan
Law enforcement bodies are limited in their effectiveness
Andrew Goldsmith
The Future Fund has just 30 per cent of its $100 billion invested in Australia, with the rest offshore
THE Future Fund has just 30 per cent of its $100 billion in assets invested in Australia, with the rest spread offshore.
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Abbott riding high on boats
GREG SHERIDAN THE figures speak for themselves, the Coalition is winning the asylum battle.
Union donations to ALP 'no surprise'
11:30AM Ben Packham BRENDAN O'Connor has defended Labor's links to the union movement and his own personal ties to the CFMEU.
Toyota workers in entitlement appeal
10:33AM PIA AKERMAN TOYOTA workers have launched new legal action to safeguard some of their entitlements.
'Show trial' fear for batts inquiry
2:28PM LABOR figures "will cooperate'' with a home insulation inquiry which has ordered former PMs Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd to provide documents.
Hoffman may be victim of tainted heroin
11:22AM Will Pavia PHILIP Seymour Hoffman may have died after taking heroin laced with a painkiller that has been blamed for scores of deaths on the US east coast.
Cancer 'tidal wave' threatens world
11:20AM Chris Smyth THE number of cancer cases will surge by more than 70 per cent within 20 years, the World Health Organisation says.
EXCLUSIVE ABC must correct errors: Turnbull
CHRISTIAN KERR and SID MAHER COMMUNICATIONS Minister Malcolm Turnbull has issued a thinly veiled warning to the ABC to correct and apologise for errors.
Greste 'music' arrest video caned
10:06AM AAP AL Jazeera has condemned the release of a video, set to a sinister musical score, showing the arrest of Australian journalist Peter Greste in Cairo.
EXCLUSIVE Premiers recruited for Asia trip
JOHN FERGUSON THE nation's conservative premiers are backing an unprecedented trade drive into Asia.
Farrow 'engineered' scandal for Oscars
11:04AM Rhys Blakely LAWYERS for Woody Allen have accused his former lover Mia Farrow of engineering a child sexual abuse scandal ahead of the Oscars.
'Dazed' Thorpe taken to hospital
DAN BOX and WAYNE SMITH IAN Thorpe is being treated for depression after he was found trying to get into a stranger's car while under the influence of prescription drugs.
TOP FEATURES
Salvos 'in disbelief' over abuse
3:34PM THERE was a naivety about the handling of abuse allegations in the Salvation Army, an inquiry has heard.
Nigeria 'scammer' held over Aussie death
6:23AM NIGERIAN police have arrested a 28-year-old man wanted in connection with the death of an Australian woman in an online dating scam.
Al-Qa'ida breaks with Syria rebels
8:58AM A MOUNTING feud has seen al-Qa'ida split with a powerful commander blamed for infighting among Syrian rebels.
UK bans French comic in anti-Semitic row
8:51AM A FRENCH comedian has answered Britain's decision to ban him from entry by giving the Queen his trademark Nazi-like salute.
Abbott riding high on boats
GREG SHERIDAN THE figures speak for themselves, the Coalition is winning the asylum battle.
Drought should be factored into business models and budgeted for accordingly. Any support should be in the form of a loan that would be paid back later. "
Warren on Joyce pushes for $7bn farm relief
Australia's drought explained
The Australian crosses to Sky News Weather's Tom Saunders, who says lack of rain over the past 12 months is a complete mystery.
2:40What is behind the RBA's decision to keep rates on hold?
The Australian's John Durie explains the outlook for the economy according to the RBA and the impact on financial markets of US tapering.
4:20Al Jazeera damns Peter Greste video
Al Jazeera has condemned a video released by Al-Tahrir TV showing the arrest of Australian journalist Peter Greste and his colleagues in Cairo.
0:54Ian Thorpe detained by police, back in rehabilitation
Five-time Olympic gold medallist Ian Thorpe is back in rehabilitation to receive treatment for depression after he was detained by police yesterday.
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RBA keeps rates steady at 2.5pc
5:09PM Adam Creighton THE RBA has kept official interest rates on hold in the hope existing rate settings will be enough to battle both rising inflation and unemployment.
JB Hi-Fi pumps up volume
Damon Kitney JB Hi-Fi will ramp up home appliances and bank on strong demand for technology to underpin strong profit growth this year.
Falls wipe $28bn off market
5:03PM THE sharemarket has suffered its heaviest one-day losses since August.
Echo's big unknown remains KT Lim
12:33PM John Durie IN an expected lacklustre result for Echo Entertainment, the sparkle may be provided by any Queensland updates - but the big unknown remains KT Lim.
Future Fund needs fair returns too
John Durie THE Future Fund has just 30 per cent of its $100 billion in assets invested in Australia, with the rest spread offshore.
Childcare 'doesn't fit with police'
PATRICIA KARVELAS WOMEN are unable to climb the police force ladder because childcare doesn't fit in with their rosters, a submission says.
'Show trial' fear for batts inquiry
LABOR figures "will cooperate'' with a home insulation inquiry which has ordered former PMs Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd to provide documents.
Fee fuels waste trade
GRAHAM LLOYD EVERY year about 6400 trucks head from Sydney to disgorge their loads into waste dumps west of Brisbane.
Future Fund needs fair returns too
John Durie THE Future Fund has just 30 per cent of its $100 billion in assets invested in Australia, with the rest spread offshore.
Royal commission vital to probe union
ANDREW GOLDSMITH LAW enforcement bodies are limited in their effectiveness.
Abbott riding high on boats
GREG SHERIDAN THE figures speak for themselves, the Coalition is winning the asylum battle.
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Maguire extends deal with Souths
SOUTH Sydney coach Michael Maguire has re-signed with the Rabbitohs until the end of the 2017 NRL season.
Plumber survives surf's Everest
Tom Knowles IT was the kind of wave that surfers dream of riding, measuring around 80ft high and hurtling towards the coast at terrifying speed.
Thorpe faces depression battle: father
AAP IAN Thorpe's father says the Olympic legend is having a tough time with depression, but he hopes his treatment will soon see him right.
Buy-out to close gap between clubs
Patrick Smith THE AFL is considering fast-tracking the next broadcast rights deal.
Flower boom and bust predictable
Simon Barnes IT is an accepted rule of political life that all careers, no matter what heights they might have touched, end in failure.
Few tears will be shed for ICC
Gideon Haigh SO farewell, then, International Cricket Council, we hardly knew you.
No good comes out of bad deals
ALAN KOHLER THE deals done in food and automotive sectors show the need to clean up goes beyond the building industry.
West to offer Kiev a 'big carrot'
Laurence Norman and Adam Entous THE US and the EU are stepping up efforts to sway the outcome of the political crisis in Ukraine.
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