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Bowen residents survey the damage after Cyclone Debbie affected the area. Picture: Wesley Monts/News Limited

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SUNCORP says it has finalised over half the claims lodged by its customers after Cyclone Debbie, and more than 1500 home repairs have been completed.

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TOKYO, JAPAN - APRIL 26: (CHINA OUT, SOUTH KOREA OUT) Parts of the Panama Paper documents, containing documents of Mossack Fonseca, are seen at the Asahi Shimbun headquarters on April 26, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. The Panama Papers, which revealed that government leaders or their relatives used tax havens to hide their assets from public scrutiny, were obtained by the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The ICIJ is scrutinizing the documents along with partner media organizations around the world, including The Asahi Shimbun. The Asahi Shimbun, which has been scrutinizing Japan-related portions of the Panama Papers, contacted Japanese companies and citizens whose names crop up in the documents to ascertain their reasons for registering in tax havens. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)

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GERMANY has stepped up its campaign against organised crime by spending $7.5 million to buy the so-called Panama Papers.

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Supermarket shopper with basket at Woolworths Rundle Mall, health professional Lea Narciso (0413377983) - pic Mike Burton

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WOOLWORTHS’ sales turnaround is likely to happen at a faster pace than the market expects, analysts at investment bank UBS say.

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Workers in Shenzhen, China, move materials at a construction site in August. The city had the world’s largest increase in apartment prices last year, a sign of China’s housing bubble. PHOTO: QILAI SHEN/BLOOMBERG NEWS

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THE cooling of the housing market in China will weigh on the economy during the second half of the year, credit rating agency Fitch warns.

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Brexit fishing boats, part of a flotilla sail up the river Thames in central London on June 15, 2016. A Brexit flotilla of fishing boats sailed up the River Thames into London today with foghorns sounding, in a protest against EU fishing quotas by the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union. / AFP PHOTO / NIKLAS HALLE'N

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BRITAIN will withdraw from an agreement that allows some other European countries to fish off its coast as it “takes back control” of fishing policy.

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A woman throws a garbage bag onto a pile of garbage in Athens, on Thursday, June 29, 2017. A strike by garbage collectors, which has lasted nearly two weeks, has left towering mounds of garbage on city streets at a time when the summer's first heatwave sent temperatures soaring. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

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HUNDREDS of striking Greek sanitation workers have ended a 10-day strike as steaming mountains of garbage piled up across the country.

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FACEBOOK is deleting about 66,000 posts a week as the social media giant cracks down on what it considers to be hate speech.

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Two Dolphins in full flight behind the trawler. Picture by Peter Lorimer.

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FISHING fleets dump about 10 per cent of the fish they catch back into the ocean in an “enormous waste” of low-value fish, scientists say.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on February 20, 2017 shows protesters wearing German and French flag face masks pose for a photograph during a

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BARNABY Joyce is telling European officials that Australia is not out to exploit Brexit or flood their markets with agricultural products.

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21/6/17. Premier of SA Jay Weatherill with Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis and the State Budget 2017-18Pic: Keryn Stevens

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THE banking lobby has slammed a surprise bank levy announced by the South Australian government, labelling it an “outrageous cash grab”.

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YOWIE Group has again slashed its full-year revenue growth forecast despite exceeding expectations in its return to Australian supermarkets.

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The auction at 27 Greycliffe St, Queenscliff, an original 1930s house with big ocean view on the market for the first time in decades, Sydney, Australia, 17 June 2017.

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HOME prices across Australia’s capital cities have risen an average of 10.2 per cent in the year to March 2017, driven by Sydney’s strong property market.

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This basic St Albans house could attract a huge price after recent rezoning for higher density living in the area. No. 80 across the street sold for $1.81 million in February after competition from nine bidders. This one has a price guide of $1.5-$1.65m and last sold for just $90,000 back in 1988.Property was passed in.Auctioneer Manny Zenalli.Picture: Richard Serong

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PROPERTY prices have ticked slightly higher across most of Australia’s capital cities, although the auction clearance rate has stayed below 70 per cent.

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THE grocery industry has been rocked by Amazon’s announcement that it will buy Whole Foods in a deal valued at about $18 billion.

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14/06/2017 Outside of Network Ten's offices after it was announced the broadcaster has been placed into voluntary administration. Renee Nowytarger/The Australian

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CREDITORS of the embattled Ten Network will meet for the first time with administrators in Sydney within a fortnight as takeover rumblings continue.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 14: A Telstra Air symbol is seen outside the Telstra Melbourne headquarters on June 14, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. Telecommunications company Telstra is expected to cut up to 1400 jobs in an effort to reduce costs, as the company prepares to deal with a $3 billion earning gap expected because of the national broadband network. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images)

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THE communications union says Telstra workers were “ambushed” by the telco’s shock announcement that it will sack 1400 employees.

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SPRINT has been fined $10,800 for allegedly tricking a consumer into believing it was an agent for Telstra and transferring them to its own service.

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FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2016, file photo, Sean

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RAPPER and music producer Sean “Diddy” Combs has been named the world’s highest-paid entertainer, ousting pop singer Taylor Swift.

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A loaded coal tanker pulls away from the completed $4.1 Billion expansion of BMA Hay Point coal terminal, south of Mackay. Photographer: Liam Kidston.

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CYCLONE Debbie caused a sharper than expected fall in coal exports in April, which is likely to weigh on Australia’s economic growth.

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A car parking stop sign for the Murray Goulburn manufacturing facilities behind houses in Rochester, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. (AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy) NO ARCHIVING

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UNITS in Murray Goulburn’s listed trust are at a fresh all-time low as investors continue to digest the dairy processor’s vaguely worded announcement.

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TOPSHOT - Mayor of London Sadiq Khan leaves after observing a minutes' silence with London ambulance staff in London on June 6, 2017, in memory of the victims of the June 3 terror attacks. Police on Monday identified two of the three London attackers as Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane, after Britain's third terror assault in less than three months, as Prime Minister Theresa May came under mounting pressure over security just days ahead of elections. / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN

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BRITISH Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson sees no reason to cancel Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain for criticising London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

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ESCAPE: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS TORONTO, ONTARIO - City skyline view of CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from the marina along Lake Ontario. Picture: Istock

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PRICE gains of Toronto homes slowed slightly in May in the wake of new housing rules aimed at cooling the market in Canada’s largest city.

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 04: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May addresses the media as she makes a statement, following a COBRA meeting in response to last night's London terror attack, at 10 Downing Street on June 4, 2017 in London, England. Prime Minister Theresa May has left the election campaign trail to hold a meeting of the emergency response committee, Cobra, this morning following a terror attack in central London on Saturday night. 7 people were killed and at least 48 injured in terror attacks on London Bridge and Borough Market. Three attackers were shot dead by armed police. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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THERESA May’s government says income tax would not rise for high earners in an apparent new promise to voters less than a week before the UK election.

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US President Donald Trump announces his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Accords in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2017.

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has challenged Australia and other nations to come up with a better climate deal than the Paris accord.

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FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2015, file photo, mixed martial arts fighter Angela Lee, of Singapore, poses wearing a Santa hat, following a weigh-in ceremony for her One Championship bout, at the Mall of Asia Arena at suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines. Lee didn't need the UFC to become one of the world's top up-and-coming mixed martial artists. Instead, the 20-year-old Canadian-born Hawaiian fights for One Championship, Asia's dominant MMA promotion. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

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SINGAPORE is now the world’s most digitally competitive country, according to an inaugural World Digital Competitiveness ranking.

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ESCAPE: Escape.com.au pointers. Scenic view of traditional cycladic houses with flowers in foreground, Oia village, Santorini, Greece. Picture: istock

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GREECE denies a German newspaper report claiming it is considering opting out of receiving more bailout money if lenders can’t not agree on debt relief.

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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at Sky studios to take part in a general election broadcast, in London, Monday May 29, 2017. Britain will hold a general election on June 8. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

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THERESA May says she’s ready to walk away from Brexit negotiations without a deal with the European Union if the agreement isn’t good enough.

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MUNICH, GERMANY - MAY 28: German Chancellor and Chairwoman of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel drinks from a beer mug at the Trudering fest on May 28, 2017 in Munich, Germany. The CDU and CSU, along with the German Social Democrats (SPD), form the current German coalition government, though relations between Merkel and Seehofer have been complicated as the two have clashed over certain issues, especially immigration. (Photo by Sebastian Widmann/Getty Images)

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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged European Union nations to stick together in the face of emerging policy divisions with the US.

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(FILES) US President Donald Trump signs an executive order to start the Mexico border wall project at the Department of Homeland Security facility in Washington, DC, on January 25, 2017. While the new US president has shown a capacity to change, both his tone and his positions, he has been unable to show the world a

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PRESIDENT Donald Trump is asking Congress for $2.1 billion to begin building a wall along the border with Mexico.

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CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 22: Al Gore attends the

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DONALD Trump may “surprise” people when it comes to acting on climate change, says former vice president and environmental crusader Al Gore.

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