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• Shepherd to rake over his national audit

  Colin Brinsden, AAP Economics CorrespondentAustralian Associated PressThe fanfare over the former Abbott government's national commission of audit back in 2014 was quickly overshadowed by its response in the ill-fated 2014/15 budget.However, businessman Tony Shepherd who led the audit has decided it's time to review the report's findings and draw people's attention to the challenges Australia faces."Things have changed but the problem hasn't gone away," Mr Shepherd told Sky News on Sunday.The in..

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• Victorians tipped to spend $2 billion in lead up to Christmas as analysts predict bumper Boxing Day sales

  

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• City told to brace for cruise boom

  

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• Chinese travellers to Qld up 34 per cent

  

  Australian Associated PressThe number of Chinese tourists arriving in Queensland has climbed 34 per cent in the past 12 months and is expected to grow further next year, according to the state government.Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says 485,000 Chinese travellers visited Queensland in the past year and a new service from China Eastern Airlines is expected to bring in an additional 18,000 in 2017.The new four-times-a-week service between Brisbane and Shanghai made its inaugural flight on Saturd..

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• AAA credit rating hanging in the balance as government delivers mid-year budget update

  

  Treasurer Scott Morrison has urged Australia to confront the "air of unreality" about the size of its budgetary problems which could see the country lose its prized AAA credit rating as early as Monday following the release of the mid-year budget update. A downgrade from the AAA rating, now regarded as all but inevitable by government officials, would be the first since the 1986 currency plunge and "banana republic" crisis. It took until 2011 for Australia to win back its AAA rating from the th..

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• Most Australians still prefer shopping in a store instead of online: survey

  

  Most Australians still prefer shopping in stores instead of online, according to a new survey.The national survey of 1254 people aged 18 to 64 by Galaxy Research shows that 94 per cent identified more as "in-store" rather than "online" shoppers.  Xero's pop-up retail space in Federation Square, Melbourne. Its first tenant is fashion accessories and homewares retailer Squeak. Photo: Paul Jeffers The main reasons included wanting to try clothes, shoes and accessories on for size and being a..

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• Homes saved as grass fire extinguished

  

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• Spit plan: ASF boss wants 'clarity ASAP'

  

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• Portland fears Alcoa smelter closure and job losses after damage from power outage

  

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