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The Greater Building Society is joining a large number of Australian businesses big and small in using Twitter as another way to communicate with its customers.

Australia’s unemployment rate decreased 0.2 percentage points to 5.1 percent (seasonally adjusted) in August, the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced today.

Revolution IT, today announced their acquisition of the Adelaide based specialist software testing firm Independent Test Services Pty Ltd.

Liquor Stax Australia, the independent network of alcohol retailers and hotels is through the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission hoping a proposal to authorise Liquor Stax Australia to collectively bargain with a range of wholesale suppliers gets the green light.

Optus broadband is in the ACCC’s sights once more over the telco’s broadband advertising, this time for Optus’ ‘think bigger’ and ‘supersonic’ broadband promotions, taking the issue to the Federal Court Sydney.

Telstra’s T-Suite cloud computing platform has signed its biggest deal after realestate.com.au came to terms on an agreement to move the company’s Microsoft exchange email online with T-Suite.

Broadband will be as essential as electricity in 10 years time, according to futurist Mike Walsh who says Australia lags the rest of the world with the 10 year time frame put on the National Broadband Network

Now that it’s been decided which party will govern Australia, it’s important for the Gillard Government to support this drive forward with some strong business policies.

A few months ago, when her partner Rich was having trouble finding work, Jasmine Costello encouraged him to learn chess as a way of taking his mind off the constant flow of job rejections he was getting.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) made the right decision to keep interest rates on hold at it’s September board meeting yesterday, says the Housing Industry Association (HIA).

Domino’s Pizza and Crust Pizza have both issues statements confirming that Crust Pizza is not a takeover target for larger rival Domino’s.

Rob Oakeshott’s crusade for tax reform with Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been welcomed by the Taxation Institute of Australia as the Institute congratulated Prime Minister Julia Gillard on her election win.

Julia Gillard has become the first elected female PM after independent MP’s Rob Oakeshot and Tony Windsor threw their support behind Labor in a press conference in Canberra today.

The Reserve Bank of Australia at it’s September board meeting today has decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 4.5 percent.

Woolworths has had the rezoning of its planned Woolworths hardware big-box store with US hardware giant Lowe’s rejected by Victorian Planning Minister Justin Madden.

Australia’s construction industry continues to contract, with the latest AiG/HIA Australian Performance of Construction index at 43.2 for the month of August.

Western Australia Police and Consumer Protection are warning investors to stay away from ‘Ponzi’ schemes after police charged two people with allegedly scamming investors out of $9.5 million on the promise of high returns.

ANZ Bank has announced an assistance package for Victoria flood victims, joining rival NAB in offering assistance in the wake of the Victorian floods.

The National Institute of Accountants (NIA) have welcomed Independent MP Rob Oakeshott’s proposal of a summit to address tax reform in Australia.

National Australia Bank has established a package of relief measures for both business and personal banking customers who have been affected by the Victorian floods.