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Business News tagged with Australia

QANTAS to Sack 500 Managers, May Lose 1250 Other Staff
Business  (tags: qantas, airline, managers, economy, finances, australia, jobs )

Jenny
- 222 days ago - money.ninemsn.com.au
The airline has announced it will make a five percent cut to international and domestic routes and attempt to sell ten planes as well as sacking the 500 managers after cutting its profit forecast by $300 million.
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Pay for Your Own Tea and Coffee, IBM Tells Staff - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, ibm, cost cutting, coffe, tea, cut backs, home, world, staff, office )

Chrissy
- 224 days ago - australianit.news.com.au
FREE tea and coffee are necessities in an office, but if new cost-cutting measures get the nod at IBM Australia, staff will be paying for their own. IBM worldwide has begun cost cuts that will scrap office amenities such as tea and coffee, and even compan
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Made in Oz Label Big After Bonds - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, australian made, australian owned, goods, business, consumers, pacific brands, bonds )

Chrissy
- 243 days ago - brisbanetimes.com.au
APPLICATIONS for the Australian Made, Australian Grown logo have more than doubled, since Pacific Brands' decision to move offshore, with almost 100 companies obtaining the tick of approval. The organisation has already processed 80 applications
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King Island Brand Concern - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, king island, food, job losses, cows, cream, milk, cheese )

Chrissy
- 245 days ago - themercury.com.au
KING Island fears its world-renowned fine food brand is under threat after the shock closure of its biggest employer. King Island abattoir, which was taken over by JBS Swift less than 12 months ago, employs 98 of the Bass Strait island's population of jus
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Australians to Blame for Pacific Brands Jobs Demise: Sue Morphet - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, job losses, bonds, pacific brands, consumers, berlei, king gee )

Chrissy
- 246 days ago - news.com.au
AUSTRALIAN consumers are partly to blame for the demise of 1850 jobs at Pacific Brands, the company's chief executive says. Sue Morphet last month announced the job cuts at the clothing company, which makes iconic brands Bonds, Berlei and King Gee, and th
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Secret Telstra Service to Speak With An Australian Revealed - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, business, india, phillipines, telco, telstra, outsourching, fees )

Chrissy
- 252 days ago - news.com.au
TELSTRA is secretly offering customers a messaging service that charges them extra if they want to speak to "an Australian" instead of being diverted overseas. The move follows a growing public backlash over the use of foreign call centres in countries
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US Giant Costco Takes on Coles, Woolies With First Australian Store at Docklands - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, competition, melbourne, cosco, woolworths, coles, shops )

Chrissy
- 256 days ago - news.com.au
SUPERMARKET giants Coles and Woolworths will have have a new kid on the block to go up against later this year with cut-price international grocery warehouse Costco set to open in Melbourne. Costco will open its first Australian outlet at Melbourne's
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List of Known Scams/Report a Scam
Business  (tags: scams, consumers, australia, society, bizarre, crime, dishonesty )

Michael
- 260 days ago - fairtrading.nsw.gov.au
Recognise the scams that the Office of Fair Trading is aware of. Be scam smart. Help beat the cheats!
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Bonds Tries to Disguise Damage Over Job Cuts - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, bonds, pacific brands, job losses, jobs, offshore )

Chrissy
- 262 days ago - news.com.au
PACIFIC Brands has changed its story yet again on how many workers it is keeping in Australia, telling customers only 1200 jobs are going offshore instead of the 1850 announced. The Daily Telegraph can also reveal only about 4000 Pacific Brands employees
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Investors Bank on Rudd Recovery
Business  (tags: economy, Australia, news )

Michael
- 263 days ago - smh.com.au
sold $1.1 billion worth of federal treasury notes to investors yesterday - the first such sale since 2003. Investors, mostly Australian banks and local arms of foreign investment banks, snapped them up, collectively lodging bids to buy about nine times
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Rudd Wants Pacific Brands Money Back - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, bonds, pacific, kevin rudd, taxpayer, millions, government, economy, business )

Chrissy
- 263 days ago - news.com.au
THE Federal Government will try to retrieve taxpayer money given to Pacific Brands in view of the company's decision to slash 1850 jobs, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said. Public outrage over the sackings, to be carried out over the next 18 months, is ......
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Australian Banks to Make $5 Billion in Fees in 2009 - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, banks, fees, millions, society, ethics, economy, consumers )

Chrissy
- 263 days ago - news.com.au
AUSTRALIAN banks will collect more than $5 billion in fees in the year ahead as they aim to survive the global economic crisis, a researcher forecasts. In its annual bank fee benchmark report, Fujistu Consulting found Australian households on average pay
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Treasurer Wayne Swan Flags Cap on 'Sickening' Executive Salaries - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, salary, fat cats, executive, salaries, wayne swan, gaovernment, treasurer )

Chrissy
- 270 days ago - news.com.au
EXECUTIVE salaries had reached "sickening" levels, Wayne Swan said today, as he warned the Government is considering a cap on bosses' pay. The Treasurer said the Government was exploring all options when it came to high salaries for executives in business
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Sol Trujillo to Leave Telstra in June - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, telstra, american, sol trujillo, profits, jobs, telephone, company )

Chrissy
- 271 days ago - news.com.au
TELSTRA (tls.ASX:Quote,News) has announced the departure of chief executive Sol Trujillo, after the group reported a 1 per cent dip in first half profit. And the telco said more job losses are on the way, with more than 10,000 Telstra jobs gone during Mr
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Business Bins 'Buy Australia' Campaign as Thousands of Jobs Are Axed - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, business, jobs, unemployment, bonds, pacific, buy australian, china, consumers, money )

Chrissy
- 271 days ago - news.com.au
AS thousands of jobs disappear on a single day, business leaders warn of worse to come and dismiss calls for a Buy Australia campaign to save what's left. Some of Australia's biggest corporations, including Telstra, Pacific Brands and Lend Lease have anno
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