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Coonan confident on Telstra sale

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2004
... rush to fully privatise Telstra, and would continue to implement recommendations from the Estens Inquiry into telecommunications services in the bush.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2004
... term, as well as the possibility that they could control both Houses of Parliament, sparked buying in media and telecommunications stocks. This buying could continue today, although profit taking remains a risk. The December share price index - a key ...

Telstra starts capital management plan with $750m buyback

... buyback today as part of its three year, $4.5 billion capital management program. In June, Australia's biggest telecommunications company said it planned to return $1.5 billion to shareholders each year for the next three years through a combination ...

Westpac tops list in corporate responsibility: survey

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2004
... although weaker in the area of assurance,\" the survey said. Some individual sector leaders were Telstra in telecommunications, Queensland rail in industrials, Minter Ellison in professional services and Cadbury Schweppes in consumer staples. The index ...

Telstra plans special dividend, share buyback

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2004
Australia\'s largest telecommunications company, Telstra Corp, has delivered a 20% rise in net profit for 2003/04 and unveiled plans for a special dividend in the first half of the current year. Telstra said it intends to pay a special dividend of six ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2004
... to lose some ground today with base metals and gold easing overnight. Investors will be watching Hutchison Telecommunications Ltd today after it surged more than 17% yesterday on an announcement that it was discussing sharing its 3G network with Telstra ...

HSBC appoints ex-Perpetual CEO Graham Bradley to board

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2004
... currently chairman of Film Finance Corporation Australia and Proteome Systems, and a director of Singapore Telecommunications, MBF Australia and Stockland Corporation. He is also Chairman of the Garvan Research Foundation and the Sydney Community Foundation. ...

ANZ appoints Rinker chairman Morschel to board

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2004
... effective from 1 October. Mr Morschel is also a director at global mining giant Rio Tinto, Optus owner Singapore Telecommunications and defence technology contractor Tenix. \"He brings with him the experience of being a director of major Australian and ...

Optus announces $226.8 million takeover bid for Uecomm

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2004
Optus announces $226.8 million takeover bid for Uecomm Singapore Telecommunications subsidiary Optus today announced it had made a 40 cents per share offer to acquire all of Uecomm's non-Alinta held shares. Optus has informed junior telco Uecomm that ...

Optus planning to buy Commander for $250 mln: report

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2004
Singapore Telecommunications subsidiary Optus is upping the stakes and planning an assault on Telstra Corp by buying small business telco provider Commander Communications, according to a report in The Australian Financial Review. The newspaper said ...