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Regional lender Bendigo and Adelaide Banks says its earnings have been hit by borrowers paying back loans faster than expected; The sharemarket nears a seven week high; The owner of Cootes Transport, McAleese, has requested its stock be suspended from trading.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, australia
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In this update: Former News Corp Australia chief executive Kim Williams named the AFL's newest commissioner; South Sydney’s Sam Burgess to quit Rugby League to play Rugby Union; The Socceroo’s World Cup uniform revealed.
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In this update: The Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse has heard the assault of a number of Queensland school girls could have been prevented; Dozens of asylum seekers recaptured after breaking out of the Manus Island detention centre; Cate Blanchett wins the BAFTA for best actress.
Topics: information-and-communication, australia
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Refugee advocates say the Government's decision to send 10 unaccompanied children to a detention centre on Nauru has put the children at serious risk of mental health issues.
Topics: immigration, refugees, children, federal-government, mental-health, nauru, australia
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In this episode: a shortage of treatment programs for anorexia nervosa; a unicycle ride raising money for breast cancer research, and research showing half of all cancer deaths could be avoided.
Topics: health, cancer, skin-cancer, breast-cancer, bowel-and-rectal-cancer, eating-disorders, charities-and-community-organisations, australia
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| UpdatedOne of Coca-Cola's fastest-growing products, Frozen Coke and Frozen Fanta, was not included in the latest industry-funded study on soft drink consumption in Australia, which says we are drinking less of the sweet stuff than we were 15 years ago.
Topics: food-and-beverage, industry, research, obesity, health, diabetes, australia
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| UpdatedA major review into the impact of clean energy on retail power prices is expected to clear the way for the Government to make significant changes to the Renewable Energy Target (RET).
Topics: climate-change, environment, government-and-politics, federal-government, alternative-energy, energy, electricity-energy-and-utilities, australia
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| UpdatedThe foreign investment review threshold will be lifted to over $1 billion under the South Korea free trade agreement, full details of which were released today.
The deal will see tariffs on primary products that range from around 15 per cent to more than 500 per cent removed.
Trade Minister Andrew Robb says that should grow Australia's agricultural exports to Korea by 75 per cent over the next 15 years.
Business and farmer groups have generally welcomed the deal, but some community groups warn certain provisions could allow Korean companies to sue the Australian Government over various policies.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, trade, agreements-and-treaties, foreign-affairs, australia, korea-republic-of
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Former News Corp Australia chief executive Kim Williams has been named the AFL's newest commissioner.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, australia
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| UpdatedPolitical Editor Greg Jennett discusses the day in politics with Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer and Labor Senator Sam Dastyari and discusses Tony Abbott's drought trip with ABC Political journalist Anna Henderson.
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Newcastle Jets winger Craig Goodwin has re-signed with the A-League club for another two seasons.
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| UpdatedThe Socceroos have unveiled their World Cup playing kit with the uniform paying tribute to the inaugural 1974 Cup team.
Topics: socceroos, soccer-world-cup, soccer, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedIndustry Super Australia has legal advice showing the Federal Government's planned changes to laws governing financial advice may not be lawful.
The Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation took force in July last year, but the Coalition had announced plans to roll back elements of the laws.
Many of the changes would overturn reforms introduced in the wake of the Storm Financial collapse, in which some investors lost their life savings because of conflicted financial advice.
However, ISA's legal advice suggests a Government attempt to roll back some of the FoFA changes through regulation may be invalid, with financial advisers relying on the changes potentially exposed to legal action from clients.
Topics: regulation, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedScott Morrison says 35 asylum seekers escaped from the Manus Island detention centre, but were quickly recaptured.
Topics: refugees, australia, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedSPC Ardmona avoided closure last week when its parent company Coca-Cola Amatil and the Victorian Government announced a $100 million investment plan to keep the ailing company in operation.
ABC Fact Check examines the main claims and counter claims made about the conditions and entitlements of SPC Ardmona's workforce.
Topics: manufacturing, fruit, food-processing, rural, food-and-beverage, federal-government, australia, vic
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Francis Leach caught up with the Herald Sun's Dave Davutovic to break down the weekend's A-League action. Grandstand's Stephanie Brantz then joined him to discuss what's happening in the W-League. And finally Wanderers and Socceroos assistant coach Ante Milicic had a chat to Francis about what's ahead as World Cup preparations ramp up.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, socceroos, soccer-world-cup, australia
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Australian shares have pulled back slightly from their earlier strong gains to be about 0.2 per cent higher.
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Francis spoke to Grandstand's Stephanie Brantz about Karrie Webb's great win at the Women’s Australian Open at Victoria Golf Club. He then welcomes today's Cricket Councillors Brydon Coverdale from cricinfo.com and The Drum's Adam Collins to take in an extraordinary first test at Centurion and look forward to the 2nd test in Port Elizabeth and finally, Daniel Norcross from testmatchsofa.com joined us for the 'Norcross Report' and the gents discussed the highs and lows of the Winter Olympics, including the 'Men's Spooning' event.
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| UpdatedRabbitohs star Sam Burgess will leave the NRL for English rugby club Bath after the teams agreed to a three-year deal.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, rugby-union, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, england, united-kingdom
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You could forgive Esther Glasgow for having trouble acclimatizing to the heat.
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During his injury lay-off Shane Watson has been mentoring fellow all-rounder Moises Henriques in South Africa.
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| UpdatedRegional lender Bendigo and Adelaide Bank is blaming a low-growth environment for a slide in profit.
Net profit for the six months to the end of December came in at $180.7 million, which is down 4.6 per cent on the prior corresponding period.
Cash earnings though, which is the bank's preferred measure, rose 9.5 per cent to $185.9 million.
The company's managing director Mike Hirst says the mixed result is due to a reluctance by households to borrow money.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, banking, australia, adelaide-5000, bendigo-3550