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4:00 AM | SYDNEY _ The battle for the flying dollar is set to heat up after Qantas Airways announced plans to pour almost 900,000 extra seats across Australia from July.
Temco energy  deal 'part of solution'
24 May 12 | Temco has played down any purported impact of the carbon tax on its operations as well as the new electricity arrangement with Hydro Tasmania.  | CommentsComments (11)
Shop in touch with customers
24 May 12 | KATE Gibson believes the personal touch will win over customers in her new store Cloth. The Launceston businesswoman opens her own fashion boutique today; bringing a personally selected range of Australian and European designs to the city.
Legal fight over Gunns mill sale
23 May 12 | Gunns Limited is confident its legal dispute with the company buying its Victorian hardwood sawmill will be settled so that the sale can proceed.  | CommentsComments (11)
Fullers is the best in the  region
23 May 12 | Fullers Bookshop is officially the best of its kind in regional Australia.
Boral boss Selway on his way
23 May 12 | MELBOURNE _ Boral boss Mark Selway has been pushed from his post a month after the building products company issued a surprise profit warning.
Qantas to split into two divisions
23 May 12 | SYDNEY - Qantas is splitting its domestic airline business from its loss-making international operations, but says customer benefits such as its popular frequent flyer scheme won't be put at risk.
Turmoil hits Retravision stores
22 May 12 | Some of Tasmania's Retravision stores could be in for a name change after their buying network - Retravision Southern - was placed into voluntary administration yesterday.
Sandors sale deal falls through, but still trading
22 May 12 | Launceston's Sandors on the Park remains on the market after a deal to buy the hotel fell through yesterday.
Orica presses ahead
22 May 12 | MELBOURNE - Orica is shrugging off doubts about iron ore demand by pressing ahead with the construction of a $US800 million ($A815 million) ammonium nitrate plant in Western Australia.
Soft market for housing may be drag on Hardie
22 May 12 | SYDNEY - Building products maker James Hardie fears that Australia's soft housing market will be a drag on the company's earnings this year.
Retravision stores face name change
21 May 12 | SOME of Tasmania's Retravision stores could be in for a name change after their buying network - Retravision Southern - was placed in to voluntary administration today.
21 May 12 | THE Tasmanian budget was not unfriendly to business and involved some distribution of the carbon tax windfall to capping household power bill increases. The tax increases announced on property transfers and motor vehicles is understandable in light of the size of the budget deficit.  | CommentsComments (1)
WA to distance itself if GST  share declines
21 May 12 | PERTH - West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says the state will distance itself from the rest of Australia if its share of GST revenue continues to fall.   | CommentsComments (1)
'Business as usual' in North as Retravision nears collapse
19 May 12 | Northern Tasmania's Retravision stores say it is "business as usual'' despite the electrical retailer's buying arm being on the brink of collapse.
Coffee operation scores national award
19 May 12 | LAUNCESTON'S Hudsons Coffee owners, Ray and Donna Heald, have won the national CBD franchise of the year award.
18 May 12 | SYDNEY _ Greece's exit from the euro zone would not have the same impact on the world as the events that led to the global financial crisis, the head of Commonwealth Bank says.
Decline in mining industry denied
18 May 12 | SYDNEY - The head of mining products company Boart Longyear has disputed claims by BHP Billiton that commodity price falls and global economic uncertainty are causing miners to scale back.
Toll deal `not source of inefficiency'
17 May 12 | INFRASTRUCTURE Minister David O'Byrne says a deal that encourages freight company Toll to use the Burnie port is not the reason other ports are inefficient.
Greece sinks stocks most in six months
17 May 12 | MELBOURNE - Australian stocks have plunged to two-month lows led by the resources sector, with Greece's problems keeping investor confidence at depressing lows.
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