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LFG declares substantial interest in Challenger: report

... family's private investment vehicle, LFG Holdings, emerging as a substantial shareholder of the group, according to a newspaper report today. The Sydney Morning Herald reported LFG revealed it owns 141 million shares worth $62.2 million in Challenger ...

ASX refuses to confirm talk it is lobbying for News Corp index

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2004
The Australian Stock Exchange today refused to confirm reports it was lobbying for an index that included News Corp shares once it shifts its base to the United States. Index operator Standard & Poor's has indicated it might not be able to include Rupert ...

ASX moves to keep News Corp in the top 200: report

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2004
... indices, one including News Corp and the other excluding, allowing it to be added to the United States S&P 500. The newspaper said it understood that the head of S&P's global index committee, David Blitzer, thought the plan was overly complex and would ...

ATO to review deductions for commercial property: report

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2004
... property sector. The review is expected to reduce the short-term tax deductions claimed against plant and buildings, the newspaper said. The tax office is already targeting depreciation and capital allowances for residential investments, a measure that ...

Optus planning to buy Commander for $250 mln: report

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2004
... small business telco provider Commander Communications, according to a report in The Australian Financial Review. The newspaper said Optus was negotiating the $250 million acquisition as the sector was undergoing rationalisation as the major telcos vied ...

News Corp in talks with Liberty ? Now clearer and muddier

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2004
... talks? Are they not? Apparently they are. A fortnight ago Liberty Media's John Malone told the UK's Financial Times newspaper he was in "fairly active" talks with Rupert Murdoch about buying some of News Corp's media businesses. Mr Malone, a major shareholder ...

Murdoch raises News Corp forecast, hints at higher dividend

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2004
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has pumped up its full-year forecast after a surge in DVD sales and strong results from newspaper and TV operations lifted the media conglomerate's third quarter profit 30%. Murdoch, News Corp's chairman, said an increased ...

$1 billion public service wage bill blow-out

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2004
... commonwealth public service has blown out by more than $1 billion under the Howard government, it was claimed today. Newspaper reports claimed the total annual wage bill for the sector was almost $1 billion higher now that it was when the government ...

Australia newspaper job ads fall for first time in 4 months in April: ANZ

... newspapers fell for the first time in four months, a jobs series showed. The ANZ job advertisements report for April showed newspaper job ads fell by 0.7%, seasonally adjusted, to an average of 22,038 a week, following three consecutive monthly increases. ...

Voters prefer Government spending to tax cuts: poll

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2004
... cuts, according to a new poll. Tax cuts are expected to be the centrepiece of the May Federal Budget. But the Sun-Herald newspaper reported today that the poll, conducted by Roy Morgan for the National Welfare Rights Network, showed almost 90% of people ...