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GAMBLING REPORT, new mesures : 4.11.2009
The Productivity Commission says Australians are addicted to gambling and it says tough action is needed to wean people away from poker machines in particular. The Commission has released its draft report into gambling, proposing strong new harm minimisation measures.The report shows Australians spend about 18-billion dollars a year on gambling, which includes 12-billion dollars a year on poker machines alone...
Feature by AMANDA CAVILL
Produced by Darko Kotevski
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Great Depression anniversary: 4.11.2009
It all started 80 years ago on Thursday, when investors on the NEW YORK Stock Exchange panicked at falling stock prices, sold out all at once and sent WALL STREET crashing down.
Black Tuesday, it was called ... October the 29th, 1929.
Within three years, six-thousand U-S banks would close ... nine-million savings accounts would vanish ... two-million men would be homeless ... 13-million workers would be unemployed....
Feature by RON SUTTON
Produced by Ivana Bacic Serdarevic
30/10/2009 5:16:44 PM IVANAS -> RTB
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Lovre Gobin from Port Lincoln on Blue fish tuna quota reduction: 31.10.2009
Doubts expressed about the validity of scientific arguments for the necessity of a drastic quota reduction of BueFin tuna. Still Lovre Gobin fom Port Lincoln is not expecting grave consequences for employment or income.
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ATO - Changes to income tests: 1.10.2009
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Australian Taxation Off. - Busines tax break: 3.9.2009
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WORKING WOMEN AND RECESSION : 2.9.2009
Working women face high levels of under-employment, chronic low pay and new research shows the global recession is making it worse.
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Australia`s 50 Billion Dollar Project: 22.8.2009
AUSTRALIA has signed its largest ever trade deal, worth 50 billion dollars.
It's to provide CHINA with more than two-million tonnes of liquified natural gas (LNG) a year for 20 years, from the yet to be developed GORGON project in WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
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Promising JOBS FIGURES, beginning of August: 8.8.2009
AUSTRALIA's unemployment rate has remained unchanged at 5.8 percent. The Bureau of Statistics says the July figure is despite the loss of 16-thousand full-time jobs. The figures reveal employers created 32-thousand part-time positions, in a further sign that companies are hoarding labour as long as possible by cutting hours rather than positions....
Summary by Andrew Bolton
Produced by Darko Kotevski
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National Broadband Inquiry: 22.7.2009
The federal government is being warned that its proposed national broadband network will fail unless the telecommunications industry is significantly reformed.
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PETROL PRICE WAR : 15.7.2009
There are widespread calls for AUSTRALIA's consumer watchdog to investigate plans by Coles and Woolworths, to offer petrol discounts of up to 40 cents a litre.
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