Business
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Great Barrier Reef To Be Moved To Tasmania
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef will be broken down into small pieces and re-assembled off the east coast of Tasmania, in a bid to minimise the...
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Aesop’s New Hand Cream Made From Melted Down $50 Notes
Boutique cosmetics brand Aesop today released a new range of hand creams and moisturisers made from only the finest $50 notes.
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Facebook Announces New ‘Boring’ Tag For Boring News Feed Items
Facebook will begin the introduction of a ‘boring’ tag to help users distinguish between items on their newsfeeds that are genuinely interesting and those that...
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80% Of All Objects To Be In ‘Keep Calm’ Style Within 3 Years: Report
Four-fifths of all manufactured goods will use ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ style messaging by the year 2017, it has been revealed.
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Manager Selflessly Offers To Help Clean Up Giant, Stinking Mess He Created
Saying it was important to pitch in and work together, Operations Manager Andrew Jenkins offered to help staff clean up a massive, steaming shit he...
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Google+ Still Going, Researchers Claim
A small community of Google+ users has been discovered in northern California, years after they were assumed to have died out.
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‘Strategic’ And ‘Innovative’ To Be Part Of All Mission Statements By 2020
A leading marketing body has called for all company mission statements to include the words ‘strategic’, ‘innovative’ and ‘solutions’ within six years.
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Qantas To Charge Extra For Smiles
Under increasing pressure to halt declining revenues, Australia’s national carrier Qantas today announced the introduction of an optional ‘smile surcharge’ on all international flights.
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Woman’s Phone Call Is Important To Large, Soulless Organisation
A large multinational utility provider that outsourced its call centre facilities last year, values Mary Roberta from Prospect’s phone call. The news was delivered to...
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New ‘Tech Bra’ Only Unhooks When Man Has Taken Bins Out
In a long-awaited fusion between hot-blooded hormones and cold, hard practicality, a new bra designed by Australian scientists will only unlock after the potential suitor...
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US Private Equity Firm Buys Last Remaining Piece Of 1997
US firm Platinum Equity this morning bought Australia’s ‘Yellow and White Pages’ for a reported $454 million. It is believed to be a new record...
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Rupert Murdoch Divorce Settlement: Wendi To Get Kids, Australia
Rupert Murdoch’s recently estranged third wife Wendi Deng will take over control of the couple’s children and Australia as early as next week, after the...
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When We Said We Wanted The Australian Dollar To “Go Down”, We Actually Meant “Stay The Same”
Australians have come to the realisation that life will be an absolute misery with a lower Australian dollar. It comes just months after Australians came...
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New Department Store Innovation Enables Customers To Send Christmas Gifts Directly To Land-fill
A major low-cost department store says it is ‘cutting out the middle man’ by allowing customers to send its range of cheap plastic toys, low-quality...
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Nokia relives glory days with 1998-themed party
While Apple was celebrating the launch of its new iPhone yesterday, the once popular mobile phone company Nokia was having a party of its own....
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