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Payment dates 'coincidence'

MACARTHUR Coal and Queensland Premier Peter Beattie yesterday dismissed suggestions that secret payments to a minister were tied to government decisions that enabled the expansion of Macarthur's Coppabella Mine.

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Drought to hit Qld crops hard: expert

Predictions that summer crop yields might plunge by 60 per cent look optimistic for Queensland growers, an agricultural industry expert says.Initial figures from the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource ...

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Trawler finds missing ocean monitor

An ocean monitoring device that went missing last week at Mooloolaba on Queensland's Sunshine Coast has been trawled from the bottom of the ocean by a local fisherman.

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ACCC gives a strong message about the bid for Queensland Gas

THE ACCC feels strongly about rejecting Santos' takeover bid for coal seam gas producer, Queensland Gas: not only was there wide opposition to the bid but the ACCC also had ...

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Secret deposits made after road link

THE day after the Queensland Government agreed to fund a $27 million transport corridor to extra coal reserves, Macarthur Coal founder and chief executive Ken Talbot secretly began depositing money ...

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ACCC opposes Santos bid for Qld Gas

The competition watchdog has rejected the proposed acquisition of Queensland Gas by Santos.

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Santos awards design deals for LNG plant

Foster Wheeler and Bechtel Corporation have been awarded preliminary engineering and design contracts for Santos Ltd's proposed $7.7 billion Gladstone liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Queensland.The two studies, to ...

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ACCC to oppose Santos bid for QGC

AUSTRALIA'S corporate watchdog says it will oppose Santos's proposed $910 million takeover bid for smaller coal seam producer Queensland Gas Company (QGC).

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