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Car dealers bailed out

Sydney :: Australia | about 9 hours ago | Business News

Source: The Courier-Mail

Car dealers drive off with $2 billion credit line Kerrie Sinclair December 05, 2008 11:00pm THE Federal Government has created a $2 billion credit line for an Australian car sales industry that it says is in danger of running on...

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Receivers delay announcement on ABC Learning

Sydney :: Australia | about 11 hours ago | Business News

Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

More than 600 centres have already been judged to be capable of making a profit and will operate next year. But the receivers have had to spend much longer assessing the financial viability of the remaining 386 centres. ABC Learning...

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Lyle, Goggin lead Australian PGA

Perth :: Australia | about 12 hours ago | Sports News

Source: Taiwan News

Jarrod Lyle equaled the course record with a 9-under-par 63 Friday to take a share of the second-round lead with fellow Australian Mathew Goggin at the Australian PGA championship. Lyle and Goggin, who shot 68 Friday, have 9-under totals of...

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Investment trusts doing it tough

Sydney :: Australia | about 15 hours ago | Business News

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

IT HAS been the hardest year for the real estate-investment trust sector in a decade. The market value of the sector is down by as much as 60 per cent on the previous year...To raise cash, many have put assets...

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Doubts over Qantas deal with BA

Sydney :: Australia | about 17 hours ago | Business News

Source: The Daily Telegraph (Australia)

British Airways even as growing competition concerns threaten to block the runway. Analysts and industry observers describe the deal as the "second best" option. The better alternative, according to aviation analysts, would have been to partner up in a joint...

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Murdoch's world of opportunity

Melbourne :: Australia | about 14 hours ago | Entertainment News

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Wolff, the author of an authorised biography of the media mogul, found a confounding and difficult subject, writes Ian Munro in New York. Constantly in motion and alert to possibility, voracious and instinctive, unthinking and remorseless: by Michael Wolff's...

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Couple deny manslaughter charges

Adelaide :: Australia | about 13 hours ago | No category

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

A couple has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of their baby daughter who died after allegedly being treated with homeopathic remedies. The husband and wife appeared in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday, responding to an ex-officio indictment filed...

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Rate cut creates 43,000 losers

Brisbane :: Australia | about 8 hours ago | Business News

Source: The Age

The costs of exiting an average fixed rate mortgage jumped to $18,000 because break fees for the loan rise as interest rates fall. Banks charge break fees to exit fixed-rate home loans so they can meet interest payment obligations to...

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Reds crushing Phoenix 5-1

Adelaide :: Australia | about 3 hours ago | Sports News

Source: Adelaide Now

United has crushed Wellington Phoenix 6-1 in an aggressive, powerful display at Hindmarsh Stadium tonight. Defender Sasa Ognenovski scored his third goal in as many weeks before Cristiano doubled the score two minutes before the break as the Reds cruised...

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Blockbuster to Help Australian Tourism Through Crisis

Canberra :: Australia | about 18 hours ago | Business News

Source: Epoch Times

The movie Australia will help the tourism industry break through the global financial crisis in a stronger position than ever, the federal government says. Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson has appealed to the industry not to pocket its advertising dollars during...

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