Saturday, October 1, 2016

State of excitement as Victoria's population passes the six million mark and other top stories.

  • State of excitement as Victoria's population passes the six million mark

    State of excitement as Victoria's population passes the six million mark
    Victoria's population has swollen to six million people, meaning Melbourne is well on its way to overtaking Sydney to become Australia's biggest city.The "education state" grew by 1.9 per cent from March 2015 to 2016, fuelled by a surge in overseas and interstate migration. Melbourne's population is on the up and up.  Photo: Jessica Shapiro While overseas migrants are the biggest contributors to Australia's growth, demographers say Victoria's population surge has been helped by a spike i..
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  • Premier Investments cracks $1b sales as profits surge 18pc

    Premier Investments cracks $1b sales as profits surge 18pc
    Premier Investments' CEO Mark McInnes (left) and chairman Solomon Lew have ambitious expansion plans for Smiggle. . Pat Scala Premier Investments retail chief Mark McInnes says Smiggle, the children's stationery brand acquired eight years ago, could eventually become as well known as Lego or Disney, fuelling years of sales and profit growth.Smiggle stores and sales have more than doubled over the last five years and Mr McInnes believes they ..
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  • BBY chairman told psychic of insolvency fears prior to stockbroker's collapse, court hears

    BBY chairman told psychic of insolvency fears prior to stockbroker's collapse, court hears
    BBY chairman told psychic of insolvency fears prior to stockbroker's collapse, court hears Posted September 22, 2016 21:05:49 Chairman of stockbroking firm BBY Glenn Rosewall wrote to his psychic advisor in 2011 saying he was concerned the company faced insolvency, shortly before $12 million was stripped from clients' trust accounts.The NSW Supreme Court has been presented emails and text messages between Mr Rosewall and Nevine Rottinger, where Mr Rosewall appeared to..
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  • How Radhika Oswal crushed ANZ's will to litigate

    How Radhika Oswal crushed ANZ's will to litigate
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  • Grand final eve public holiday likely to be dumped by Coalition government: Guy

    Grand final eve public holiday likely to be dumped by Coalition government: Guy
    The new grand final eve public holiday would be dumped by a Matthew Guy-led government, with any replacement holiday only granted to something that represents "all Victorians".Next Friday marks the second ever grand final eve public holiday and, since Labor promised to establish the day-off during its time in opposition, it has been widely condemned by the Coalition and business groups. Opposition Matthew Guy says a public holiday should be for everyone, not just football fans. Photo: Dani..
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  • Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe urges government to invest in infrastructure

    Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe urges government to invest in infrastructure
    Incoming Reserve Bank chief Philip Lowe has appealed to the Turnbull government to help him out with economic management by borrowing big for infrastructure, saying there's only so much that further cuts in interest rates can do.In what amounted to a plea to the Prime Minister and Treasurer to take advantage of near-record low interest rates and borrow now that the Reserve Bank's cash rate was close to zero at 1.5 per cent, he told a parliamentary hearing that monetary policy was "not working a..
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  • Melbourne train congestion: One in five commuters squeezing on to overcrowded trains every morning

    Melbourne train congestion: One in five commuters squeezing on to overcrowded trains every morning
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  • Vocus to expand fibre and undersea cable network after regulator green lights NextGen purchase

    Vocus to expand fibre and undersea cable network after regulator green lights NextGen purchase
    Vocus can buy NextGen Networks for $807 million after the competition watchdog gave the deal the green light. The purchase includes 17,000 kilometres of internet cables and the Australian Singapore Cable and North West Cable System, assets that let Vocus transfer data traffic overseas much cheaper than if it had to buy capacity off another operator.  Vocus Communications raised $652 million to buy Nextgen and two development projects.  Photo: Fairfax Management also provided a trading up..
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  • Bulldog Tim Pallas has $9.7b burning a hole in his pocket

    Bulldog Tim Pallas has $9.7b burning a hole in his pocket
    Victorian Treasurer and Western Bulldogs fan Tim Pallas has $9.7 billion reasons to smile. Pictured in his East Melbourne office ahead of the weekend of AFL preliminary finals. Josh Robenstone Tim Pallas would love to be flying to Sydney on Saturday afternoon to see his Western Bulldogs crash-tackle the Greater Western Sydney Giants in an AFL preliminary final.But the Victorian Treasurer – who banked a bumper $9.7 billion for the Port of Melbou..
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  • Gandel eyes life after charter

    Gandel eyes life after charter
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Defqon.1 Festival Australia: Police arrest 77 for drug offences .Researchers have observed individual atoms interacting for the first time .
Wealthy to dump billions into superannuation .Ecstasy making a comeback as purity rises in MDMA form, experts warn .

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