Elysse Morgan
Elysse Morgan is an ABC business and finance reporter. She is presenter of The Business on ABC Radio, ABC1 & News24.
Wesfarmers considers pokies exit in bid to tackle problem gambling
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The retail group throws its weight behind gambling reform by not ruling out dumping its gaming operations unless changes are introduced to limit the social damage caused by poker machines.
Topics: gambling, retail, community-and-society, australia
Renewables the solution to rising power prices: Energy Australia
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One of the country's largest operators of coal-fired power stations warns big bills are on the way after recent extreme weather and says renewables are the key to driving down prices.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, alternative-energy, australia
Australia faces higher interest rates, stronger dollar: Ex-RBA official
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Australia faces higher interest rates and a stronger dollar in 2017 as US inflation gathers momentum, says former Reserve Bank board member Professor Warwick McKibbin.
Topics: economic-trends, money-and-monetary-policy, currency, markets, united-states, australia
Power prices could double with new coal-fired stations: experts
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Power prices for consumers could double, not fall, if new coal-fired power stations are built, according to energy experts.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, manufacturing, federal-government, australia
Trump's 'racist' immigration ban 'must be challenged'
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Global tech giant Atlassian scrambles to ensure none of its 1,800 employees will be caught up in US President Donald Trump's executive order stopping citizens from seven countries entering America.
Topics: science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, donald-trump, community-and-society, immigration, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia, united-states
QBE denies deal with Allianz after newspaper reports
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Australian insurer QBE denies it is considering selling out to rival global insurer Allianz after reports Allianz's chief executive met with QBE boss John Neal before Christmas.
Topics: insurance, business-economics-and-finance, company-news, markets, stockmarket, australia
Crown, Bellamy's and ANZ prove China ain't no Silk Road for Australian businesses
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High-profile Australian companies and their investors learn the hard way this year that the Chinese market is not all it is cracked up to be.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, markets, industry, australia, china
Five things to know about Bellamy's share price blow-up Analysis
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Baby formula maker Bellamy's was a market darling, up 133 per cent last financial year, until its share price halved after a shock earnings downgrade. What's gone wrong?
Topics: company-news, business-economics-and-finance, food-and-beverage, markets, stockmarket, multinationals, trade, australia, china, asia, tas
ANZ boss says economy showing emerging signs of stress
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ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott says there are areas of concern across the economy and when it comes to property bubbles, "smallish" city apartments are a particular worry.
Topics: housing-industry, banking, business-economics-and-finance, company-news, economic-trends, australia
Wilmar slammed over Indonesian workers' rights abuses as it tries to seal Queensland sugar deal
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Sugar giant Wilmar remains under pressure to strike a fair deal with the Queensland sugar industry, as Amnesty International raises concerns about the company's human rights record abroad.
Topics: sugar, multinationals, work, human, australia, qld, ayr-4807, indonesia
Rio executive suspended amid African payments investigation
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Mining giant Rio Tinto suspends a senior executive after an investigation finds $US10.5 million was paid to a consultant providing "advisory services" on a project in the African nation of Guinea.
Topics: mining-industry, management, regulation, fraud-and-corporate-crime, australia, guinea
Small investors still locked out of lucrative ASX floats
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Retail investors are bitterly disappointed the ASX has ignored their campaign to get greater access to stock market listings.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, markets, stockmarket, australia
Burdekin cane growers getting 'raw deal' for sugar
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Cane growers in Queensland's Burdekin say the Singapore-based conglomerate that owns every mill in the region is attempting to squeeze their livelihood from them.
Topics: sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, agribusiness, ayr-4807, giru-4809, bowen-4805, townsville-4810, home-hill-4806, qld
Miners hit the jackpot as China slashes coal production
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As get-rich-quick schemes go, coal is blowing the lights out, with the commodity also known as black gold rising in price thanks to China slashing production.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, coal, mining-industry, markets, stockmarket, australia, china
How John Dawkins' Vocation went wrong Feature
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Around 80 per cent of Vocation's total revenue came from Government contracts, and the lion's share of that was from the Victorian Government.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, education-industry, regulation, law-crime-and-justice, australia
ASIC's Dawkins case forges class action alliance over Vocation
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Former federal education minister John Dawkins' woes intensify after class action lawyers seize upon news he is facing legal action from the corporate regulator.
Topics: education, vocational, university-and-further-education, education-industry, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, australia, vic
Former minister Dawkins faces court over Vocation collapse
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Former federal education minister and treasurer John Dawkins faces legal action over his role in the collapse of private education provider Vocation.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, vocational, education, education-industry, government-and-politics, university-and-further-education, law-crime-and-justice, australia, vic
'It's an art': BBY chairman told psychic of insolvency fears
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The NSW Supreme Court is presented with emails and text messages between BBY chairman Glenn Rosewall and his psychic advisor in 2011 about concerns the company faced insolvency, shortly before $12 million was stripped from clients' trust accounts.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, consumer-protection, consumer-finance, regulation, banking, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, nsw, australia
Ken Rosewall fronts liquidators' hearing for collapsed BBY firm
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Tennis legend Ken Rosewall tells a Supreme Court hearing into the collapse of broking firm BBY he had concerns about the financial viability of the firm as far back as 2011, four years before its spectacular collapse.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, consumer-protection, regulation, banking, australia
Share market trade cut short amid technical difficulties
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The Australian share market sees trade end early, as technical problems which delayed the market open continue to plague the ASX.
Topics: stockmarket, markets, business-economics-and-finance, australia
Rosewalls to take the stand during BBY liquidators hearing
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The high-profile directors of collapsed stockbroker BBY, Ken Rosewall and his son Glenn, will take the stand during a much anticipated liquidators hearing which begins today in Sydney.
Topics: stockmarket, fraud-and-corporate-crime, corporate-governance, consumer-finance, sydney-2000, australia
Doubts in renewable energy funding leads to suspension of projects
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Doubts in continued funding to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has led to clean energy company Geodynamics placing two projects into suspension in New South Wales and Western Australia.
Topics: company-news, consumer-finance, environmentally-sustainable-business, electricity-energy-and-utilities, environment, alternative-energy, government-and-politics, human-interest, australia
Most Masters staff will get new jobs within Woolworths: CEO
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Woolworths offers hope to staff in its failed Masters hardware stores, to close before the end of the year, saying most of them can be redeployed across its other businesses.
Topics: retail, takeovers, company-news, australia
All Masters stores to shut in December, jobs to go
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Woolworths announces its exit plan from hardware, with Masters to shut by year end and Home Timber and Hardware sold to Metcash.
Topics: company-news, retail, stockmarket, takeovers, australia
Australian industry choking on gas prices twice those of exports
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Local manufacturers say they are struggling to stay afloat, with gas prices around twice as high as those charged to overseas importers of Australian gas.
Topics: oil-and-gas, manufacturing, economic-trends, australia
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