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Communications Minister Mitch Fifield faces hostile questioning about why he did not know the specifics of Ahmed Fahour's multi-million-dollar salary as chief executive of Australia Post.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, transport, management, regulation, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia Post chairman John Stanhope admits it was a mistake to try and hide its director's $5.6 million pay packet from the public to avoid media scrutiny and reputation damage.
Topics: federal-government, business-economics-and-finance, public-sector, australia
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| UpdatedA surge in commodity prices and exports, as well as reasonable government and household spending, are almost certain to keep Australia out of recession.
Topics: economic-trends, australia
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A media war is set to break out between the union movement and employer groups in the wake of last week's decision to lower Sunday penalty rates for some workers.
Topics: government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, work, unions, australia
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Nationals MP Andrew Broad and Labor MP Pat Conroy are launching a new inquiry into modernising the power grid.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, business-economics-and-finance, federal-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedA failure of the National Broadband Network's Sky Muster satellite leaves about 65,000 consumers across regional, rural and remote Australia without internet access just one day before a secondary satellite is decommissioned.
Topics: internet-technology, telecommunications, regional, rural, brisbane-4000, qld
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Japanese auto parts maker Takata pleads guilty to fraud and agrees to pay a $1.3 billion penalty for concealing a deadly defect in millions of its air bags.
Topics: automotive, corruption, united-states
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| UpdatedFormer New South Wales premier Mike Baird is moving back to banking, as the National Australia Bank's chief customer officer for corporate and institutional banking.
Topics: banking, management, corporate-governance, business-economics-and-finance, states-and-territories, australia, nsw
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Investors keep their powder dry overnight, ahead of an eagerly anticipated speech by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday night.
Topics: stockmarket, currency, futures, markets, united-states, united-kingdom, european-union, australia
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A tourism and "wellbeing centre" project on the Tasman Peninsula looks likely to go ahead, almost a decade after its developer, entrepreneur Dick Smith, shelved the proposal due to local opposition.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, tourism, environmental-impact, port-arthur-7182
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump proposes a $US54 billion ($70 billion) increase in military spending to be funded by cuts elsewhere in government, including in foreign aid, the White House says.
Topics: budget, government-and-politics, world-politics, defence-and-aerospace-industries, defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, donald-trump, us-elections, united-states
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| UpdatedPenalty rates and politicians' entitlements were hot topics on Monday's Q&A as the panel show hits the road and broadcasts from Melbourne this week.
Topics: government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, work, television, melbourne-3000, australia
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| UpdatedThe Australian Workers Union is urging Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to "act decisively and rationally in the national interest" to ensure a portion of Australia's natural gas is quarantined for domestic use.
Topics: oil-and-gas, industry, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, australia
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A slanging match breaks out over a proposal for Tasmania's water and sewerage system to be taken out of the hands of local councils.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, government-and-politics, water-management, water, water-supply, tas
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| UpdatedWestpac says it will compensate customers "who have experienced a financial loss as a direct result of the branch system issue" due to a major outage that disrupted transactions at a majority of its branches today.
Topics: banking, consumer-finance, money-and-monetary-policy, haymarket-2000, australia
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Official data show wages going backwards while company profits surge, with mining and construction leading the trend.
Topics: economic-trends, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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Two weeks from the state election, the Barnett Government is yet to submit its full business case or receive any of the promised Commonwealth funding for its priority road project, the $1.9-billion Perth Freight Link.
Topics: elections, road-transport, urban-development-and-planning, fremantle-6160, melville-6156, beeliar-6164
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| UpdatedDonald Trump is bypassing mainstream media outlets, which he calls "fake news", and giving favour to conservative news organisations. So how should the media respond?
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, media, united-states
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| UpdatedWestpac, one of Australia's big four banks, investigates a major outage that has hit services at branches around the country.
Topics: banking, consumer-finance, money-and-monetary-policy, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia can build an affordable and secure electricity network with 100 per cent renewable energy, using existing technologies, according to research by the Australian National University.
Topics: energy, alternative-energy, electricity-energy-and-utilities, australia, australian-national-university-0200
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| UpdatedTroubled law firm Slater and Gordon admits it is effectively broke and operating at the mercy of its lenders.
Topics: company-news, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedInsurer QBE reports a 23 per cent rise in profit to $US844 million ($1.1 billion) and plans to hand it back to shareholders through a billion-dollar share buyback.
Topics: insurance, company-news, australia
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| UpdatedIn Moscow's souvenir shops, Donald Trump memorabilia is selling not just to tourists but to locals, as his appeal outlives the fervour over his election win.
Topics: community-and-society, tourism, russian-federation
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| UpdatedDespite being warned of "potential conflicts of interest", the Queensland Government appointed an Adani company director to chair the authority overseeing the Abbot Point coal port.
Topics: mining-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, coal, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, bowen-4805, weipa-4874, mackay-4740, qld
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| UpdatedSunday penalty rates will be a major issue as MPs head to Canberra for a new sitting week, with Bill Shorten asking Malcolm Turnbull to support a Labor push to keep them.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, hospitality, industry, australia