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• Resignations roll out from the NBN board Video

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  The Business

   3min 44sec
  Posted Mon 23 Sep 2013, 9:52pm AEST
  Australia's biggest infrastructure project could soon be rebuilding from the top. The ABC understands six out of seven board members of the National Broadband Network have offered to resign amid speculation they do not have the confidence of the Coalition government. The NBN has been dogged by costly blowouts and huge delays and just 2 percent of the network has been built.

• Outlawing green boycotts, the Government is targeting market based protestersVideo

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  The Business

   2min 50sec
  Posted Mon 23 Sep 2013, 9:43pm AEST
  The Federal Government's moving to clamp down on environmental groups who lobby for company boycotts overseas. That has been welcomed by forest workers in Tasmania who accuse green groups of spreading half-truths in key markets like Japan. But activists and the Greens see the move as an attack on free speech.