Riverfire 2016: David Bowie, Prince honoured in soundtrack to Brisbane fireworks spectacular and other top stories.

• Riverfire 2016: David Bowie, Prince honoured in soundtrack to Brisbane fireworks spectacular

  

  Riverfire 2016: David Bowie, Prince honoured in soundtrack to Brisbane fireworks spectacular Updated September 24, 2016 20:22:10 The skies over Brisbane have lit up with another successful Riverfire fireworks spectacular, drawing out crowds estimated at close to half a million people.The Australian Army's ARH Tiger and MRH 90 Taipan helicopters were early crowd pleasers, followed by the FA18 Super Hornet, which roared above the city.It returned just before the fireworks..

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• ASX fails to rule out recurrence of 'unprecedented' malfunction

  

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• 'Various assurances' from IBM: ABS

  

  'Various assurances' from IBM: ABS

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• 7-Eleven dodging payroll tax in NSW, Opposition says

  

  7-Eleven dodging payroll tax in NSW, Opposition says citing documents Updated September 24, 2016 11:41:50 The NSW Government must immediately investigate the failure of 7-Eleven's 231 stores in the state to pay payroll tax, the state Opposition has said. Labor's Daniel Mookhey said Freedom of Information documents revealed 7-Eleven and its franchisees had paid no payroll tax in NSW for at least the past three years.Mr Mookhey said the money could have gone towards nurse..

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• Tech firms talking about sale of Twitter

  

  Tech firms talking about sale of TwitterTwitter Inc has initiated talks with several technology companies to explore selling itself, a person familiar with the matter says, signalling the start of what is likely to be a slow-rolling auction of the high-profile but money-losing social media company.A sale of Twitter has been the subject of on-again, off-again rumours for many months as the company grapples with stagnant user growth, soft advertising sales and losses running at hundreds of million..

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• Jetstar drama 'the most terrifying moment of my life'

  

  Jetstar engineers are investigating after one of the airline's planes was forced to make an “emergency” landing, with the cabin filling up with smoke. The Airbus A320 was diverted to Brisbane during a flight from Sydney to Cairns after a “technical ...

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