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Strong oil prices have underpinned a solid production report from Woodside, which achieved a better oil and gas output result in 2011 than forecast.
Santos has predicted a lift in production this year after falls in 2011 were offset by higher oil-gas prices.
Oil and gas producer Beach Energy says the renegotiation of a royalty agreement with Esso for assets in central Australia is of mutual benefit.
Australia's jobs market is still weakening, official figures show, adding to the case for an interest rate cut next month, economists say.
Shares in Lynas Corporation jump 3.8 per cent as investors expect the company will be granted a license to operate its contested Malaysian facility.
EBay's net profit more than tripled in the fourth quarter in part due to the sale of its remaining stake in Skype.
