Liz Hobday
Liz Hobday has reported for the ABC since 2004. She was the ABC Melbourne's radio court reporter (2008-2009) and worked at ABC Gippsland in 2006.
Energy retailers making millions off solar feed-in rates
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Energy retailers are buying electricity from homeowners with solar panels at lower prices than what they would pay on the wholesale market.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, consumer-finance, consumer-protection, economic-trends, emissions-trading, markets, alternative-energy, solar-energy, environment, australia
Local retailers feel fashion pain as global brands expand
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With discount clothes and fast fashion, Australian shoppers have never had it so good. But it's sending local retailers to the wall, with the collapse of half a dozen brands this summer, and predictions of more to come.
Topics: retail, business-economics-and-finance, company-news, economic-trends, australia
'Vulnerable' caravan park residents face eviction
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About 200 residents of the Wantirna caravan park in Melbourne's east are facing eviction after a developer bought the site to build townhouses.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, local-government, wantirna-3152
Investors give thumbs down to executive pay packets
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More of Australia's top companies than ever before have seen investors give the thumbs down to executive pay packets, and the company AGM season still has weeks left to run.
Topics: company-news, corporate-governance, business-economics-and-finance, australia
Government initiative easing way for veterans into employment
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The Government follows the lead of the United States and United Kingdom, announcing a new initiative designed to ease the way for veterans into skilled employment in the private sector.
Topics: government-and-politics, defence-forces, defence-industry, veterans, australia
Top financial minds say Trump presidency means short-term volatility
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Some of Australia's top financial minds say a Donald Trump administration in the United States means greater short-term volatility, and the likelihood of reduced financial regulation.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, markets, government-and-politics, australia, united-states
Court orders forcible eviction of squatters living in vacant houses in Melbourne
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The Supreme Court in Victoria makes orders to enable the forcible eviction of squatters living in vacant houses at Collingwood that had been acquired for the failed East West Link road project.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, collingwood-3066, melbourne-3000
CFMEU bosses to fight blackmail charges in Victorian Supreme Court
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Two senior Victorian CFMEU bosses will take their fight against blackmail charges to the Victorian Supreme Court, after failing to have them thrown out at a hearing this morning.
Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, corruption, building-and-construction, courts-and-trials, business-economics-and-finance, australia
Fresh coronial inquest to be held into 1991 Portland double murder
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Victoria's coroner will re-examine the murder of two women at a Portland hair salon and consider Robert Penny, who is now deceased, as a suspect.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, portland-3305, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
New South Wales economy continues to lead Australia: CommSec
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New South Wales remains Australia's top-performing state economy, while the Northern Territory is growing faster than anywhere else.
Topics: economic-trends, australia, nsw, nt, wa
Share market ends lower for fourth straight week
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The local share market finishes its fourth week of losses, as the All Ordinaries Index closes 0.8 per cent lower at 5,440.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, industry, markets, australia
Uber driver 'tried to eject two older Melbourne women on deserted road'
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Two older Melbourne women will make a formal complaint against ride-booking service Uber after they say a driver tried to force them out of the car in a deserted street, late at night.
Topics: internet-technology, road-transport, older-people, government-and-politics, travel-health-and-safety, melbourne-3000
Uber opposes Victoria's planned $2 levy on taxi and ride-booking fares
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Uber says it will not support a proposed $2 levy on taxi, ride-booking and hire car trips in Victoria, saying it will "only have the effect of reducing demand".
Topics: state-parliament, government-and-politics, internet-technology, road-transport, melbourne-3000, vic
ASX closes lower amid US rate hike concerns
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The local market closes three-quarters of a per cent lower, ending a week of losses, as investors wait for key US jobs data.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, stockmarket, currency, oil-and-gas, iron-ore, australia
7-Eleven playing 'statistical tricks' in worker compensation scheme
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The former head of the disbanded compensation panel for underpaid 7-Eleven workers says the company is wrong to claim it is dealing with repayment claims faster internally.
Topics: industrial-relations, retail, work, australia
Market close: Share market slips on resources fall
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Falling resources stocks lead the local share market to close just less than 1 per cent lower.
Topics: stockmarket, currency, markets, australia
Australian shares post modest fall ahead of Jackson Hole
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Australian shares post a modest decline as investors largely stick to the sidelines ahead of the key Jackson Hole meeting of central bankers.
Topics: stockmarket, currency, markets, australia
Stabbing victim a 'raging bull' on day he died, court told
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A Melbourne barber accused of fatally stabbing his neighbour denies ever touching his alleged victim, who the defence lawyer says was a "raging bull" on the day he died, the Victorian Supreme Court is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, melbourne-3000, preston-3072
Banks help share market close slightly higher
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Banking shares were in the red this morning after Moody's downgraded its outlook for the industry, but they regained ground, leading to a slight uptick in markets by close of business.
Topics: stockmarket, business-economics-and-finance, markets, gold, currency, australia
Foreign student's swimming pool death preventable, coroner finds
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Lifeguard regulations in Victoria are criticised by a coroner who found the drowning of an Indian student at a public swimming pool in Melbourne was avoidable.
Topics: death, states-and-territories, disasters-and-accidents, melbourne-3000, vic
Unemployment expected to have remained steady in July: Economists
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Economists are predicting a steady jobless rate of 5.8 per cent in the July employment figures to be released by the Bureau of Statistics.
Topics: unemployment, economic-trends, work, australia
Local shares close flat as ex-dividend CBA offsets mining gains
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Australian shares close flat as gains in the mining sector are offset by a large fall for the Commonwealth Bank as it goes ex-dividend.
Topics: stockmarket, currency, markets, australia
Early intervention turning my life around, Indigenous teen says
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There is much debate about how to deal with young Aboriginal people caught up in youth detention, but one Melbourne teenager credits early intervention from youth workers with getting him off drugs and away from the justice system.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, preston-3072
Australian shares end higher as Wall Street, banks boost
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The Australian share market closes modestly higher for the week, as a record high on Wall Street helps boost the market, though weak economic data from China tempered gains.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, markets, currency, futures, stockmarket, australia
Australian shares slip as CBA profit disappoints
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Australian shares have slipped as investors sold out of the banking sector after Commonwealth's profit report disappointed.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, markets, currency, futures, stockmarket, australia
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