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The Just Group, which owns Just Jeans, Smiggle, Peter Alexander, Portmans and Dotti, says it needs a way around having to charge customers GST
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Iron ore producer hit by falling global price and a sea wall collapse, forcing it to cut production targets and flag writedowns
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Victoria’s court of appeal has upheld the judgment made in the supreme court, awarding compensation to Tatts and dismissing Tabcorp’s claim
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Palmer United party leader refuses to answer questions relating to legal case involving Chinese-owned Citic Pacific
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Shoppers tell of being jostled and even stripped of their bargains as stores open at midnight offering discounts
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A clique of Australian restaurateurs are riding a tourist wave to riches in Indonesia – but business in Bali is not for the faint-hearted
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Australian ‘gender equality scorecard’ found more than a third of companies have no women in key management positions
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Federal government raises $5.7bn from sell-off, all the money to be tipped into asset recycling fund
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Finance minister Mathias Cormann said it was appropriate ‘mums and dads across Australia’ got majority of shares
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A UN report says Australia and just three other nations will not meet their pledge to reduce emissions by 2020
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Signed deal is set to leverage the Primo Group’s growing export operations across Asia, including China
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Grocon Victoria Street guilty of one count of failing to ensure a safe workplace over the 2013 accident that killed three people
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Clothing and textiles company will focus on its leading businesses: Bonds underwear and Sheridan manchester
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Business leaders show little gratitude for wage restraint and productivity increases under our IR system, preferring instead to believe there is some magic fairy of greater competitiveness
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Qantas venture also losing pilots as regulators holding back its licence, apparently due to opposition from Cathay Pacific
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Agreement also opens China’s services sector to Australian businesses, but fails to reduce tariffs on other agricultural commodities including rice, wheat, cotton, sugar and oilseeds
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The man who produced Nirvana, Pixies and wrote the 1993 essay, The Problem with Music, has always been an industry outsider. In 2014, it’s his optimism that sets him apart
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The ABC is pulling out of business coverage with the end of Ticky Fullerton’s The Business, while tempers flare at 7.30 over a skit that fell flat, writes Amanda Meade
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Shrinking of economy surprises analysts and spells trouble for Shinzo Abe, who is expected to call election for next month
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Falling iron ore prices are the immediate culprit but a longer-term analysis must focus on labour productivity and participation
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With home building figures stalled, unemployment high and mining investment in freefall due to falling commodity prices, Australia’s transition economy remains a work in progress. So what is the Reserve Bank’s next move?
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The state’s economy has limped along in the past year, GSP per capita going backwards and employment growth a lousy 0.2%
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Based on old and irrelevant modelling, the figure trumpeted as ‘extra revenue’ is reported as fact, rather than properly questioned
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Business leaders show little gratitude for wage restraint and productivity increases under our IR system, preferring instead to believe there is some magic fairy of greater competitiveness
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Prices have surged 31.9% since 2011, but the boom this time hasn’t flowed on to household spending
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The transition from the mining boom is occurring at the same time the baby boomers are transitioning to retirement. We have a smaller percentage of the population working than in the past
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Australia avoided the EU and US bank meltdowns thanks in part to government regulation and deposit guarantees, but now a recommendation to raise capital ratios is being fiercely resisted
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For the past few years the political fight over the cost of living has been focused on power prices and the carbon tax, but if the Reserve Bank decides to lift rates it will have a far greater impact, writes Greg Jericho
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The government would have us believe they would redress any social burdens resulting from a change in the GST
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Collapsing iron ore prices are set to smash the Western Australian budget. But the premier can’t blame the miners when the state’s forecasts were too high
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While standard theory suggests the Australian LNG boom will be a win for our economy, the reality suggests the benefits may not be as big – or evenly shared – as might be hoped
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The EU economy is roughly the same size as the United States. When something that big hits the wall, it has reverberations
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Research suggests that a sizeable proportion of people working on a freelancers and casual basis are doing so out of choice
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The study by the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling found that in this financial year, 99.8% of households are worse off after the budget
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IMF cutting projections for 2015 world GDP growth from 4.0% to 3.85% is more of a reversion to previous expectations
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Infrastructure Australia’s project reviews ensure a robust estimate of costs and benefits. Unfortunately, there has been no assessment of the East West Link
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The ‘reserve our gas’ campaign may have populist appeal, but if it were successful it would only have a marginal impact on gas prices in Australia
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The ABS job vacancy figures aren’t terrible, but they offer little comfort for the 764,000 Australians without work
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Qantas venture also losing pilots as regulators holding back its licence, apparently due to opposition from Cathay Pacific
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Flora division to get separate management to counter tough markets as consumers shun spreads
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The woman who launched the US farmers market movement is in Australia to stir things up ahead of the G20, with supermarket monopolies, fancy chefs and school meals in her sights
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Company to team up with Telstra to fly 20 balloons over western Queensland in project designed to help connect remote regions of the world
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Nouriel Roubini: Monetary policy has borne the burden of supporting faltering growth via weaker currencies and higher net exports
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BG’s board should have realised the original policy-busting deal would have triggered a shareholder rebellion
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Why the collapse in the Russian rouble matters to the global economy
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Business leader: The UK still lags behind the OECD for spending on R&D. If our industrial sector is to grow, it must be nurtured with more funding
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Nils Pratley: If Lund waived BG’s £12m golden hello, he could still earn up to £14m a year – not bad, even by the standards of big UK oil companies
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The oil cartel has been weakened by non-cartel producers and alternative energy sources such as shale
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Katie Allen: The ECB is eager to warn teenagers about inflation. But as price growth slows, that looks like yesterday’s scare story
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Larry Elliott: George Osborne talks of investing in transport to carry people out of poverty, but the money has to be made available, and not just in the south-east
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The death of the beer tie – if it happens – seems an intelligent way to proceed, whatever the uncertainties
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Inadequate risk management caused problems that led to Royal Bank of Scotland being fined £56m for its 2012 IT cock-up
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We need economic institutions that somehow promote the concerted creative actions of a wide swath of the world’s people, writes Robert Shiller
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In a rare phenomenon, the prices of completely unrelated commodities are falling. Is another global recession coming? Not quite
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Nils Pratley: Anything is possible in a pharma-land still gripped by deal-fever, but it’s odds against a repeat attempt by the US company
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Why early-stage investing works for people and technology
Lucy P. MarcusThe temptation to cut long-term investment in economic hard times stalks the private and public spheres, writes Lucy P. Marcus -
Business leaders show little gratitude for wage restraint and productivity increases under our IR system, preferring instead to believe there is some magic fairy of greater competitiveness
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Disclosure by the 80% taxpayer-owned bank shows the 10 received £1.9m of these allowances for the last four months of 2014
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Analysts await next move to turn around ailing supermarket chain and expect gloomy trading update in January
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More than 100 customers say they’ve been contacted by callers quoting their personal details
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All the latest business and economic news, as the US Non-Farm Payroll shows the biggest monthly increase in almost three years
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Discount clothing store’s overall sales remain higher than a year ago because of the rapid expansion of the chain
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Trio will likely stand trial alongside two other former brokers who pleaded not guilty to similar charges last year
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Toymaker has won the international licence to sell Corgi and Scalextric-branded James Bond products ahead of the release of Spectre next year
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The entrepreneur and immigrant is a woman in her 40s in a business that favors young men, but she shrugs it off: ‘Anything with power, guys are there first’
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Unemployment rate stays at 5.9% and 9 million still out of work as Thanksgiving storms appear not to have hampered figures
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Carolyn McCall’s £665,000 salary, £1.15m annual bonus and £5.9m share award reflects performance and profits, says firm
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Women’s clothing chain ‘moved quickly to block attack’ in which cardholder names, account numbers and verification codes may have been exposed
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Songbird investors have two months to consider £2.6bn cash bid from Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Brookfield
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Suppliers say Ambrosia custard maker requested hefty payments in order to continue doing business with them
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International Labour Organisation finds in three years to 2013 UK wages fared worse than most of the eurozone’s crisis hit economies
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Construction company says public-private partnership business worth far more than offer from John Laing Infrastructure Fund
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Building industry activity slowed in November, new survey shows, as Westpac changes tack and forecasts cheaper borrowing
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Nils Pratley: Behind the verbal gymnastics, the eurozone economy sinks to its knees.
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Financial support for seismic surveys welcomed by oil industry but criticised by environmental campaigners
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A week after riots and unrest in Ferguson, small business owners with destroyed property find themselves at the center of the city’s attempts to move on
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