Tiny fruit fly sours Australia's big ambitions in agriculture and other top stories.

• Tiny fruit fly sours Australia's big ambitions in agriculture

  

  The Queensland fruit fly is causing headaches for would-be fruit exporters. Pic of Queensland fruit fly supplied by DPI victoria ... A tiny fruit fly is undermining Australia's efforts to grow its $4 billion fruit and vegetable exports, despite the country reaching a series of free trade agreements with its largest trading partners in Asia.Australia sealed trade agreements with China, Japan and Korea last year - deals that guaranteed a significant reducti..

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• Telstra warned on impact of network outages

  

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• Asian shares up, US dollar firm on US data

  

  Asian shares up, US dollar firm on US data

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• Egg labelling standard may be cracked

  

  The carton may say free range, yet a growing number of Australian consumers don't know if that's "eggs-actly" what they're getting.But the confusion over egg labelling could soon be over, with state and federal ministers meeting on Thursday in a bid to crack a national information standard. There has been growing uncertainty about the definition of free range, despite the variety costing twice as much as caged ones. Photo: Craig Sillitoe The meeting comes nine months after the ministers..

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• Australia vulnerable to debt crisis, says Forbes

  

  Australia, like the other six countries on the list, fill the two key prerequisites, a high level of private debt to GDP, and a rapid growth of that ratio in the last few years, the report says. Photo: Penny Stephens Australia is one of seven countries that Forbes magazine says is the "most likely to suffer a debt crisis" within the next three years. China, whose economy has faltered in the past two years, comes No. 1 on the list of seven, but Australia is No..

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• Post-Easter property listings, sales unlikely to bounce ahead

  

  Pushed $1 million above reserve to sell at $5 million: 26 Sargood Street, Toorak Kay & Burton Tougher credit rules and economic uncertainty mean residential property markets will get less of a post-Easter bounce this year.While in past year the auction numbers have jumped following the Easter long weekend, agents say fewer investors, along with ongoing affordability challenges in Sydney and concerns about commodity prices and overseas demand wi..

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• Aussie market tipped for modest rise

  

  Aussie market tipped for modest rise

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