G-7 Warns on Global Growth Outlook as Japan Bristles Over Yen and other top stories.

• G-7 Warns on Global Growth Outlook as Japan Bristles Over Yen

  Finance chiefs from the world’s biggest developed economies meeting in Japan underscored concerns that global growth is flagging and reaffirmed a pledge not to deliberately weaken their currencies, even as Japan again warned on the yen’s surge.At the end of two days of talks, Group of Seven central bank governors and finance ministers highlighted risks from terrorism, refugee flows, political conflicts and the potential for a U.K. exit from the European Union.While officials agreed not to targe..

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• Bass Strait ferry plan aims for two new ships in 10 years' time

  

  Bass Strait ferry plan aims for two new ships in 10 years' time Updated May 21, 2016 14:19:45 The Tasmanian Government will call in two special dividends of $40 million from TT-Line in the next two financial years to help fund new Bass Strait ferries. Key points: Government confident TT-Line can afford ship-funding dividendsFerries fund expected to benefit from any state budget improvementsPlan to buy new ships within the next decade The $80 million from the ferry ope..

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• Herd mentality: why the dairy industry will do it tough for another three years

  

  Dairy Farmer John Keely with son Harrison near Cohuna, northern Victoria. John Keely says the industry is facing a "perfect storm". Ken Jenkins John Keely, a dairy farmer in Victoria's Cohuna region, describes the situation confronting the dairy industry as "the perfect storm".He's worked on the family farm since leaving school in 1982, and his youngest son Harrison recently joined the family business, becoming the fifth generation to run the ..

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• Brazil's Bento Rodrigues mine spill residents agree on new town

  

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• Federal election 2016: budget in poor shape for a crisis

  

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• RBA's John Edwards says lower inflation target 'wildly premature'

  

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• Sea Shepherd sends Steve Irwin ship to SA waters to stop BP drilling for oil in Great Australian Bight

  

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