Military aircraft ferry supplies to a town slowly sinking beneath swollen rivers as flooding in the country’s north-east severs roads and ports, curtailing coal exports and devastating farmland View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage
Australia hit by devastating floods
Large parts of Australia’s coastal northeast disappeared under floodwaters in a spreading disaster that has brought some of the highest floods on record and forced thousands from their homes View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage
Gillard clinches power in Australia
Julia Gillard’s Labor government has won the Australian election after securing the support of ‘kingmaker’ independent parliamentarians more than two weeks after the tightest national election in decades View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage
Australia heading for hung parliament
Australia looks set for its first hung parliament in 70 years after the ruling centre-left Labor government suffered a backlash in a poll that nevertheless failed to allow the opposition conservative coalition to take office in its own right. View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage
Australia looks set for hung parliament
Australia’s parliamentary election is heading for a photo finish with final opinion polls giving Julia Gillard’s Labor government the narrowest of margins over Tony Abbott’s opposition conservative coalition View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage
Xstrata threatens Australia over tax
The Anglo-Swiss miner has ‘suspended’ A$586m in spending on coal and copper projects after reviewing operations in Australia in the weeks since Canberra announced plans for a new 40 per cent resources ‘super profits tax’ View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage
Australia to cut credit card fee?
Australia to cut credit card fee? SYDNEY – AUSTRALIA’S central bank has not yet decided whether to regulate a further reduction in the transaction fees charged by credit card companies, a top official said on Monday. Reserve Bank of Australia Assistant Governor Malcolm Edey told a payments conference it was not yet clear whether competition [...]
(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-14 22:15 Australia not yet decided on credit card fee cut
(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-14 22:15 Australia not yet decided on credit card fee cut SYDNEY, March 15 (Reuters) – Australia’s central bank has not yet decided whether to regulate a further reduction in the transaction fees charged by credit card companies, a top official said on Monday. Reserve Bank of Australia Assistant Governor Malcolm Edey [...]