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Melburnians told to cut water use
SMH 12:00am 02 Jan 2009 Recent rainfall and cooler days mean Melbourne households should be consuming much less water than they have been, water utilities say.
Households told to cut water use
TheAge 12:00am 02 Jan 2009 Recent rainfall and cooler days mean Melbourne households should be consuming much less water than they have been, water utilities say.
Shares probe brings sacking
TheAge 12:00am 26 Dec 2008 Senior executive with BG Group sacked following internal investigation into conflict of interest involving shares bought in company months before it joined utilities giant.
Uni squatters rail at utilities disconnection
TheAge 12:00am 16 Dec 2008 Student squatters have accused Melbourne University of "playing dirty" after its maintenance staff turned off the water and gas at the university-owned property occupied by the students since August.
Toro says uranium spot price on the up
SMH 12:00am 26 Nov 2008 The spot price for uranium is on the road to recovery after nuclear power utilities snapped up stockpiles, Toro Energy Ltd says.
One-shop stopping for regular payments
SMH 12:00am 15 Nov 2008 SWITCHING banks can be a time-consuming hassle. There are the payments to electricity, gas, water utilities and to insurers and mobile phone companies, and then there are the payments such as share dividends that go into our accounts.
Babcock buys US gas utilities
SMH 12:00am 03 Jul 2008 Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Fund North America to buy gas utilities in the US for $944m.
Ausdrill mulls unit sale
SMH 12:00am 13 Jun 2008 Ausdrill, a mining and utilities contractor fighting an unsolicited takeover bid, has entered talks on a possible sale of its Diamond Communications business.
Security hole exposes utilities to Internet attack
SMH 12:00am 11 Jun 2008 Attackers could gain control of water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other critical utilities because of a vulnerability in the software that runs some of those facilities, security researchers reported Wednesday.
Ausdrill rejects Macmahon bid
SMH 12:00am 06 Jun 2008 The board of mining and utilities contractor Ausdrill has advised shareholders to reject a $436 million all-share takeover offer from Macmahon Holdings.
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