Two into one just won&#39;t go, says ANZ
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Australian banking group ANZ has watered down its plan to combine the National Bank with the New Zealand arm of ANZ. The ANZ, which bought the National Bank from Britain&#39;s Lloyds TSB for
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THE nation&#39;s regional political, economic and security interests were threatened by the Federal Government&#39;s refusal to sign a non-aggression pact with its Asian neighbours, Labor said today.
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Embattled Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Tuesday refused to bow out of this year&#39;s election despite discontent in his party caused by falling opinion poll ratings suggesting it will lose.
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Air New Zealand and Qantas Airways have lost their bid to get their proposed alliance approved in New Zealand. New Zealand&#39;s High Court declined the airlines&#39; appeal against a NZ Commerce Commission decision to block the alliance.
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Australians try to tame the giant.
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Citing anticompetitive concerns, New Zealand&#39;s High Court rejected on Monday a proposed alliance between the country&#39;s flagship carrier and Australian rival Qantas.
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IF AUSTRALIA again thumps New Zealand in Friday&#39;s second Test in Adelaide, another famous rivalry will become more myth than reality.
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Rumors that the Swiss banking giant is set to divide in two are unlikely to be true.
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Air New Zealand and Qantas will try to find new ways of working together to reduce costs, after the High Court upheld a Commerce Commission decision not to allow an alliance between the two.
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THE pay dispute between Australia&#39;s players and cricket Australia has become deadlocked over the method of payment. Australian Cricketers Association chief executive Tim May claims there is no point continuing
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The Australian government will not move to block a foreign takeover of  airline Qantas, the prime minister says.
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SYDNEY: Australian regulators have lifted objections to a proposed alliance between Qantas Airways and Air New Zealand, although New Zealand authorities remain a stumbling block to the trans-Tasman deal.
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Qantas has decided that it will not appeal against a New Zealand High Court decision stopping it from forming an alliance with Air New Zealand.
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New Zealand kept an eye on the weather to save them as they frustrated Australia&#39;s efforts to wrap up another fast-tracked victory in the second cricket Test at the Adelaide Oval on Monday.
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MARK COLVIN: Melbourne - Australia&#39;s home of Rugby Union. Doesn&#39;t sound quite right, does it? And indeed this afternoon the Australian Rugby Union decided that the AFL-mad Victorian capital was not ready to
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PRIME Minister John Howard today said Australia was unlikely to sign a non-aggression pact with its Asian neighbours. The issue is reportedly causing tension ahead of Mr Howard&#39;s visit to Laos for the ASEAN leaders&#39; summit next week.
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This is a math problem that voters or hard drives can&#39;t solve. It sounds so simple, but in the 2004 college football season, three into two won&#39;t go.