Underdog out to topple Target and Big W and other top stories.

• Underdog out to topple Target and Big W

  

  New look Rundle Mall2:46Take a virtual walk through the $385 million development of the Harris Scarfe site in Rundle Mall. Big W and Target are in the sights of Harris Scarfe.TARGET, Big W and Myer better watch out. Another retailer is planning on bringing them down.Already reeling from an onslaught of overseas retailers such as H & M and Zara, a competitor has emerged much closer to home as Harris Scarfe prepares for an “aggressive” all-out battle with the department store stalwarts.Yet despit..

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• NSW push for electricity interconnector with South Australia

  

  The Baird government will push for a high-voltage interconnector to be built between NSW and South Australia following South Australia's blackout, convinced the incident has highlighted the need for national energy security.NSW Minister for Energy Anthony Roberts will attend an emergency meeting of COAG's Energy Council on Friday, where the South Australian government is expected to seek to speed up a proposal to build the new interconnector between South Australia and the east coast. Ener..

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• Oil price: Is OPEC back in charge?

  

  Image copyright Getty Images Image caption All smiles: OPEC ministers after reaching agreement at the meeting in Algiers OPEC, the oil producers' group is back in the driving seat.Well perhaps it is. It certainly took the commodities markets (and me) rather by surprise when it agreed to cut production at a meeting in Algiers. In fact the group has a lot of work to do before it has a real and sustained impact on the price.But that decision was not what..

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• NSW weather: Evacuation order for Condobolin as Lachlan River flood moves downstream

  

  NSW weather: Evacuation order for Condobolin as Lachlan River flood moves downstream Updated October 01, 2016 14:16:08 An evacuation order has been issued for low-lying areas of Condobolin in the central west of New South Wales, as flood peaks in the Lachlan River move downstream. The river is expected to peak near 7.2 metres on Wednesday and with more rain forecast, the order for residents to evacuate was put out at 9:00am. It comes as the flooded waters of the Lachlan..

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  IF YOU’RE going to pay close to $1 million for a new home, you’d expect it to have four walls and a roof, right? Maybe not in Sydney.A half-constructed home in Newtown, in Sydney’s Inner West, is currently listed on the market with a price guide of $900,000. Well, that price guide is more like a price floor, according to selling agent Michael Harris of Raine & Horne Newtown, who told news.com.au that the property attracted strong interest in its first open home last weekend.“We had 18 groups thr..

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• Deutsche Bank surges on $US5.4b settlement report

  

  Deutsche Bank jumped the most in almost six months after a media report that the lender is nearing a $US5.4 billion ($7 billion) settlement with the US Department of Justice, less than half the amount initially requested.The shares closed at 11.57 euros, up 6.4 per cent, the biggest gain since April. Agence France-Presse reported that the lender is nearing a settlement with the DOJ in a probe tied to residential mortgage-backed securities, citing an unidentified person familiar. Spokesmen for t..

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• Power blackout a $30m blow for Whyalla steelworks sale

  

  Why did South Australia black out? The man trying to save the Whyalla steelworks and the fortunes of the town of 23,000 people who depend on it has been handed a new $30 million problem. And that is in the short term, with full power not likely to return for up to a week, costing the plant and a related mining operation a total of $4 million a day.And the power blackout which shut down the entire South Australian electricity network on Wednesday may also have darkened the prospe..

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• New submarines could ultimately be nuclear, say experts

  

  The Collins class submarines will eventually be replaced by the Shortfin Barracudas. James Brickwood by Mark Abernethy As far as government spending goes, it could be the largest capital project ever undertaken in Australia. The Future Submarines Program (FSP) aims to build 12 submarines at a cost of what could be more than $36 billion, taking the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's estimate of each sub costing ..

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• The timezone terror begins

  

  Daylight saving myths busted0:30When it comes to that time of the year we all have our own feelings on the subject but here are some of the best myths about turning your clock around for daylight saving. Confusion reigns in much of Australia when the clocks go forward. Picture: Tim MarsdenIF THE Melbourne Cup is the race that stops a nation, then surely daylight saving is the topic that divides it.The biannual changing of the clocks is, in equal measure, loved and loathed.For every office worke..

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