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Harvey Fresh expands east

1:00 AM | PROMINENT western Riverina fruit processing business Nugan Quality Foods (NQF) has been sold to Western Australian juice, wine and dairy foods company, Harvey Fresh. | Carbendazim scare in Brazilian ...

Agribusiness and General - Finance

$620m NBN satellites to connect remotest towns

08 Feb 12 | The Gillard government has announced that the National Broadband Network will spend $620 million on two new satellites to connect some of Australia's most remote towns. |

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Problems flare as solar tender reopened

08 Feb 12 | THE federal government was yesterday forced into reopening the tender process for public funding of its $1.5 billion solar flagship project as doubts mounted over whether the project could ever be financially viable. | Audit finds errors on emissions | Solar power: the dark side of ...

Agribusiness and General - Political

Liberals oppose truckie pay rise

08 Feb 12 | THE transport industry has won support for its campaign to stop a federal law that would raise pay rates for truck drivers amid Coalition accusations that it is a pay rise presented as a safety measure. | Quiet opportunity on AAco front | AACo's 'green' abattoir punt

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Gunns shoots up after billionaire takes stake

08 Feb 12 | BILLIONAIRE investor Richard Chandler will inject $150 million into revamping forestry company Gunns, as part of a $280 million capital raising. |

Comments (1) | Gunns bid for more capital | Gunns shares crash to 10.5c

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Solar power: the dark side of the sun

08 Feb 12 | IT'S one of our most plentiful natural resources, and it costs us nothing. So why can't Australia, or any other country for that matter, convert rays from the sun into electricity on a mass scale with any degree of success? |

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Audit finds errors on emissions

08 Feb 12 | JUST months before the carbon tax is introduced, an auditor's report has found that more than one in six major polluters has made ''significant errors'' when reporting its greenhouse emissions and energy use to the government. | AACo's 'green' abattoir punt | Carbon tax only a good start: ...

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Katter's power plan still on table

08 Feb 12 | THE Gillard government is keeping open the prospect of a $335 million grant for Queensland independent Bob Katter's CopperString power project, even though it has failed a key requirement for the funding.

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Don't give Gillard free kicks, says Abbott

08 Feb 12 | TONY ABBOTT has told his MPs that only Coalition ill-discipline can save Labor and Julia Gillard, urging his side to avoid unnecessary fights over principle. | Rudd leads Gillard but voters ... | Carbon tax only a good start: ...

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The Russians aren’t coming

08 Feb 12 | A COMMONWEALTH Bank foreign exchange analyst has hosed down recent speculation that the Russian Central Bank views the Australian dollar as a potential safe-haven currency in the long-term.

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Hawker makes a splash for MS

07 Feb 12 | TOMORROW the community of tiny outback town Hawker will get behind one of its own and a worthy cause as locals hit the pool to raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society of South Australia and the Northern Territory. |

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Gunns bid for more capital

07 Feb 12 | GUNNS is set to announce a capital raising and equity investment in a further restructure of the company still pitching to build a $2 billion-plus pulp mill.

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ICAP enters local ag, soft commods scene

07 Feb 12 | INTERDEALER broker ICAP has announced that it is entering the Australian agricultural and soft commodities market in February with a new team. The team of three brokers, led by Garry Booth, was formerly at MF Global.

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Canberra scuttling solar 'flagships': Greens

07 Feb 12 | THE Greens have accused the government of creating a solar energy scheme that was ''designed to fail'' after it emerged that two major solar projects set to receive $750 million in government funding have failed to find investor backing.

Agribusiness and General - Political

Australia key for food price stability

07 Feb 12 | AUSTRALIA, as a world agricultural leader, must do more to help protect farmers in developing countries from aggressive foreign investors, according to international economist and World Food Prize laureate Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen. |

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Dairy suffers while govt 'dithers': ADF

07 Feb 12 | AUSTRALIAN Dairy Farmers (ADF) President Chris Griffin has expressed his disappointment in the Government’s responses to the Senate Economics References Committee’s 2011 final report of the Inquiry into the impacts of supermarket price decisions on the dairy industry and Milking it for all it’s worth – competition and pricing in the Australian dairy industry. |

Comments (3) | SunRice a takeover target

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Bush backlash saves unleaded fuel

07 Feb 12 | A SUCCESSFUL campaign by petrol retailers across the State resulted in a backflip by Premier Barry O’Farrell on banning regular unleaded petrol from July 1. |

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Tesco dumps 'green' label

07 Feb 12 | UK SUPERMARKET giant Tesco will no longer feature a carbon reduction label, which the chain launched to great fanfare four years ago. |

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Cloudy outlook for solar rebates

06 Feb 12 | BUYERS of solar panels and hot-water systems are being warned they face at least a 12-month wait if they want the full rebate to which they're entitled under the government's renewable energy scheme. |

Comments (1) | US tie-up a boost to solar | US energy plans pinned on gas

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Katter the younger no fan of dad's style

06 Feb 12 | Rob Katter confesses he feels like ''a bit of a copout'' because he doesn't go in for the theatrics of his famous father, the maverick north Queensland MP Bob Katter.

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