Battle for Australian pubs heats up
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Australian regulators intervened on Monday in the escalating fight for control of the pub operator Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality Group, thwarting an attempt by the retailer Woolworths to trump its larger rival Coles Myer by presenting shareholders with
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Business & money: Bidders begin stalking Mitchells & Butlers after pub operator announces Â£422m of losses
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Australian politicians set off on a marathon campaign Monday for an election that will focus on the way forward for one of the world's strongest economies, the credibility of candidates and support for the Iraq war.
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Shares of Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality Group, the nation&#39;s biggest pubs owner, may rise after Coles Myer Ltd. increased its takeover offer to A$1.
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SYDNEY: Australian supermarket giant Woolworths raised its bid for pubs chain ALH to A$1.2bn ($898m) on Monday, but rival Coles Myer played for time by winning a deadline extension.
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Australia&#39;s biggest supermarket group, Woolworths Ltd, has won a fierce Aust. $1.33 billion ($1 billion) battle for pubs chain ALH on Tuesday, beating out rival Coles Myer Ltd which has conceded defeat.
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Paul Collingwood and Kevin Pietersen were leading the resistance as England battled to save the first Ashes cricket Test against Australia at the Gabba here.
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By Helen Archer  RESIDENTS are fighting to save a playpark which has been earmarked for the building of an office block as part of a massive redevelopment around the site of the Fountainbridge brewery.
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Fosterâs, Australiaâs largest beer and wine maker, has been trying to sell Lensworth, aiming to focus on its beverage business.
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THE fiercely-fought national election campaign in Australian has reached a turning point. This week the 13 million voters in the country are being presented with the final appeals by conservative
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Beverages giant Foster's Group has launched a 3.1 billion dollar (2.35 billion US) bid for Southcorp in what is likely to be the opening shot in a drawn-out takeover war for Australia's biggest wine producer.
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Reports suggest Punch Taverns has made an offer to buy troubled pub chain rival Mitchells & Butlers.
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Australian food critics were left spluttering into their napkins today after a court decision opened the way for restaurant owners to claim damages for bad reviews.
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ALICE SPRINGS, Australia  - Five times a week the "Night Patrol" winds through the darkness of the 18 squalid aboriginal camps in Alice Springs trying to prevent the alcohol-fuelled violence that is destroying lives.
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Thousands of Australian firefighters are battling to save three small towns from bushfires that have ravaged an area larger than Luxembourg and destroyed 18 homes.
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Australia's prime minister launched a  campaign on Sunday against homelessness, saying it was  unacceptable an estimated 100,000 Australians were homeless  each night in a country where the economy is booming.
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A political row has broken out in Australia over election campaign suggestions that Australia would consider a &quot;pre-emptive strike&quot; against terrorist operations in neighboring countries.