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David Ross is a Sydney-based journalist at The Australian. He previously worked at the European Parliament and as a freelance journalist, writing for many publications including Myanmar Business Today where he was an Australian correspondent. He has a Masters in Journalism from The University of Melbourne.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 6, 2020: A pedestrian walks past closed shops along Swanston Street. Melbourne's retail heart has been closed after the Coronavirus pandemic forced the city into lockdown. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

Defaults rising as recession hits hard

Australia’s business bankruptcies have jumped for the first time since June.

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China influencePolitics

29/6/20: NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane holds a press conference at NSW Parliament. He said that he is not a suspect in AFP espionage probe. John Feder/Thje Australian.

MP must hand over documents

NSW parliamentarian Shaoquett Moselmane will be forced to hand over to police 107 documents seized in a raid in June.

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Legal affairsFinancial Services

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 13, 2020 - Disgraced financial planner Sam Henderson with his partner leave the Downing Centre in Sydney on Tuesday, October 13, 2020.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Christian Gilles

Financial planner awaits sentence

Financial planner Sam Henderson misrepresented his qualifications for seven years.

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QandAMedia

PM is not an inclusive leader: Albo

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has sharpened his attack on the government for failing to control national borders in a wide-ranging appearance on QandA on Monday.

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SUPERANNUATIONFinancial Services

Entertainment at the Greg Medcraft, chairman of ASIC, is speaking at Financial Services Council function. Also a top exec at the banking regulator, APRA, Helen Rowell is speaking too.Pic Annette Dew

Shape up, APRA tells trustees

Australia’s prudential regulator has warned superannuation trustees major changes are in store for the industry.

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Politics

7/10/20: CEO Paul O'Brien with food technologist Sabine Yang. Paul runs a successful food production business that makes sauces, dressings and relishes and recently invested in a state of the art research and development kitchen at his Marrickville site. He says the budget boost to business investment comes at the right time for his business. John Feder/The Australian.

Write-offs build food firm’s appetite for growth

Manufacturers have welcomed the government’s measures to boost business investment by expanding instant asset write-off.

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HOTEL INQUIRYNation

Emergency Management Victoria Commissioner Andrew Crisp has corrected evidence he gave on hotel quarantine to a parliamentary inquiry.

Push for Crisp to face inquiry again

Victoria’s emergency tsar could face the hotel quarantine inquiry again after he retracted evidence he provided six weeks ago.

Remy Varga

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Calls for distressed kids grow by half

The number of times Kids Helpline has called an ambulance, police, or child protection on behalf of a Victorian child has jumped by more than 50 per cent in the pandemic.

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QandAMedia

Health expert and former head of Australia’s Finance Department Jane Halton.

‘$40 a day is not enough’

The pre-budget QandA showdown has seen mud thrown from all sides around the future of economic support and the failure of the government to help those hardest hit.

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LIVE: CORONAVIRUS CRISISNation

Daniel Andrews' chief of staff Lissie Ratcliff, left, may be asked to appear before the hotels quarantine inquiry, but the Premier, right, wouldn't be drawn on the issue today. Pictures: Supplied/NewsWire

Push for Premier’s staffer to front inquiry

Daniel Andrews’ chief of staff could be questioned on bungled hotel quarantine as Victoria confirms Melbourne school students can return by the end of October.

Rachel Baxendale, Richard Ferguson and David Ross

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