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Eric Johnston is an associate editor of The Australian. He has more than 25 years experience as a finance journalist, including a former business editor of The Australian. He has been business editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and financial services editor with The Australian Financial Review. His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

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Russian Rouble coin

Dollar hit by rouble rout

THE dollar was last night sucked into the downdraft of the collapsing rouble as fears spread Russia could dump commodities.

At a doorstop at Parliament House in Canberra today an outraged Anthony Albanese condemns the Greens for appropriating an image of the late Gough Whitlam for their own political use.

PM, Napthine ignored East West facts

INFRASTRUCTURE Australia was created to ensure that investment in infrastructure was determined by productivity, not politics.

Anthony Albanese

A poultry farmer, who did not want to be identified, pictured with young chicks in his huge, electronically controlled tunnel-ventilated chicken shed.

Bartter escapes tax net on $1.5bn

PRIVATE companies want exemption from the corporate tax list.

Reserve Bank Governor Ian Macfarlane appearing before House Economics Committee at Dallas Brooks Hall in East Melbourne 22 May 2000. p/

Distrust of politicians led to delay

AS Australia marks 31 years since the floating of the dollar, a former RBA governor says the real question is why it took so long,

Glenda Korporaal

Wall Street Journal

Hay bales. Generic hay. Hay in the paddock. Hay just baled in the paddock near Clunes in central Victoria.

US hay exports shrivel

CHINA’S tough new stance on imports of genetically modified crops is shaking up a little-noticed US industry: hay.

JESSE NEWMAN

Wall Street Journal

Japanese Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Shinzo Abe (C) and party members gesture during election campaigning in Tokyo on December 13, 2014. Heavy snow hit large swathes of Japan on December 13, the eve of a general election, fuelling speculation the ruling coalition is on course to an easy victory on low voter turnout. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI

Corporate Japan grows cautious

SHINZO Abe’s moves to lift confidence are losing their effect.

TATSUO ITO and TAKASHI NAKAMICHI

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Hockey calm amid storm

Hockey calm amid storm

GIVEN the collapsing terms of trade, the $10.6 billion blowout in the budget deficit over the past six months was to be expected.

STEPHEN BARTHOLOMEUSZ

ASX in Sydney

Malakoff tipped as Alinta suitor

THE latest speculation surrounding Alinta is that Malakoff Corporation of Malaysia could be shaping up as a suitor.

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 03: (CHINA OUT) Construction workers prepare to install the final steel beam on the 632-meter-high Shanghai's tallest building on August 3, 2014 in Shanghai, China. The final steel beam has now been installed on Shanghai's tallest building, the world's second tallest. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)

Great leap for China construction

CHINESE construction and engineering companies have emerged as major global players in recent years, overtaking their Western and Japanese rivals.

Peter Cai

Qantas Group Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce and Jeanne-Claude Strong ( wife of former Qantas CEO James Strong ) and Deanne Craig ( former personal assistant to former Qantas CEO James Strong ) welcome to Sydney a new boeing 737-800 aircraft, its QantasÕ first retro painted aircraft proudly carrying the 1971-1984 livery and bearing the name of former Qantas CEO James Strong. Picture Cameron Richardson

Mayday call is just a memory

AIRLINE chief Alan Joyce is all smiles after a huge earnings upgrade for Qantas.

Damon Kitney and Steve Creedy

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