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• Coalition plans to strip climate from energy operator's objectives

  16-11-2025 05:23 via abc.net.au
  
  The Coalition would reduce emissions "year on year" considering the "real performance" of other developed countries and strip climate from the objectives of the nation's energy operator under a plan negotiated between the Liberals and Nationals.
  
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• Government considers dramatic intervention to save Tomago smelter

  16-11-2025 04:27 via abc.net.au
  
  The federal government is considering a power-purchase agreement with Tomago to supply electricity at a stable price, after warnings the smelter may need to close because of rising power costs.
  
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• Dropping speed limits on unsigned roads 'nonsense', WA senator says

  16-11-2025 03:21 via abc.net.au
  
  A Labor senator says it's "stupidity" for the federal government to propose a reduction to the default speed limit for unsigned roads. 
  
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• Health concerns over waste incinerator planned for Sunbury

  15-11-2025 21:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Sunbury residents say they are tired of being the state's "dumping ground" after waste-to-energy facility proposed nearby a receives a cap license from Recycling Victoria.
  
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• What France's famous cave replicas can teach Australia about rebuilding lost heritage

  15-11-2025 21:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Five years after Rio Tinto destroyed a 47,000-year-old sacred rock shelter to expand an iron ore mine, an ambitious rebuild is underway drawing inspiration all the way from France.
  
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• Forestry looks for new markets after new national park cuts supply

  15-11-2025 20:50 via abc.net.au
  
  The Great Koala National Park was announced to protect koalas and forests in northern NSW, but the forestry industry has been left wondering how it can fill a shortfall in supply.
  
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• Chasing the 'middle ground' as forestry industry stumped by koala park

  15-11-2025 20:50 via abc.net.au
  
  The Great Koala National Park was announced to protect koalas and forests in northern NSW, but the forestry industry has been left wondering how it can fill a shortfall in supply.
  
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• Parents are bringing back the landline and their kids can't get enough

  15-11-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  As smartphones swallow childhood, a growing movement of parents is reinstalling landlines, hoping an old-school corded rotary phone can restore patience and connection.
  
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• How the landline is making a comeback

  15-11-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  As smartphones swallow childhood, a growing movement of parents is reinstalling landlines, hoping an old-school corded phone can restore patience and connection.
  
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• Can this 150-year-old tech save childhood from screen overload?

  15-11-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  As smartphones swallow childhood, a growing movement of parents is reinstalling landlines, hoping an old-school corded rotary phone can restore patience and connection.
  
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• Pope Leo urges Hollywood actors to resist algorithms, save cinemas

  15-11-2025 15:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Pope Leo XIV tells a group of leading Hollywood actors and filmmakers during an audience at the Vatican that more should be done to protect struggling neighbourhood cinemas, to preserve the shared experience of watching movies.
  
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• Financially embattled hospitality group plans to sell regional clubs

  15-11-2025 06:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Sydney-based Norths Collective looks to offload two Far North Coast sporting clubs to cap losses and pay down debt of about $30 million.
  
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• Trump reverses course on beef tariff as pressure builds over cost of living

  15-11-2025 01:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Hundreds of food products, including beef and oranges, are now exempted from US trade tariffs, according to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Friday.
  
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• Mona has lost $408m but David Walsh is 'completely happy'

  14-11-2025 23:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Hobart's landmark Museum of Old and New Art has racked up a staggering amount in losses since it opened in 2011, but founder David Walsh is still building.
  
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• Closure of local paper signals end of independent print media in Goldfields

  14-11-2025 23:11 via abc.net.au
  
  In a region that once boasted more than 60 newspapers, the Esperance Weekender is the last independent to shut its doors. 
  
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• Property prices 'running away' as Brisbane unit value rises $50k in six weeks

  14-11-2025 22:25 via abc.net.au
  
  A young couple bought a one-bedroom unit in inner-Brisbane using the government’s 5 per cent deposit scheme. Around the same time, a two-bedroom brick walk-up in the same suburb sold for just over $1m, highlighting soaring unit prices.
  
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• Couple who bought unit six weeks ago say they couldn't afford it now

  14-11-2025 22:25 via abc.net.au
  
  A young couple bought a one-bedroom unit in inner-Brisbane using the government’s 5 per cent deposit scheme. Around the same time, a two-bedroom brick walk-up in the same suburb sold for just over $1m, highlighting soaring unit prices.
  
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• Regulator uncovers $900k client refund fraud by regional tax agent

  14-11-2025 21:01 via abc.net.au
  
  The NSW accountant siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from clients via false ATO lodgements over three years.
  
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• Small wineries worried about 'onerous' costs of consumer recycling scheme

  14-11-2025 20:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Container Deposit Schemes are loved by consumers for getting a little cash back, but wineries say the financial and administrative burden outweighs any environmental boon.
  
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• Strapped to a wind turbine, Forrest is betting on the renewable transition

  14-11-2025 20:18 via abc.net.au
  
  At a wind farm in central Queensland, the billionaire backer and the local boilermaker offer a glimpse into how the energy transition is reshaping regional communities.
  
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• At Twiggy Forrest's wind farm, 'growing pains' of the renewable transition are laid bare

  14-11-2025 20:18 via abc.net.au
  
  At a wind farm in central Queensland, the billionaire backer and the local boilermaker offer a glimpse into how the energy transition is reshaping regional communities.
  
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• Twenty-thousand tonnes of FOGO waste to go to landfill

  14-11-2025 08:58 via abc.net.au
  
  The City of Bunbury and Shire of Harvey agree to contribute up to $1 million each to remove contaminated organic waste that caused the closure of a regional three-bin waste system. 
  
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• Councils hit with $2m bill to send contaminated FOGO waste to landfill

  14-11-2025 08:58 via abc.net.au
  
  The City of Bunbury and Shire of Harvey agree to contribute up to $1 million each to remove contaminated organic waste that caused the closure of a regional three-bin waste system. 
  
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• Fire destroys at least $3 million of NT hay

  14-11-2025 08:09 via abc.net.au
  
  A feed mill in the Northern Territory is getting back on track after a major fire destroyed more than $3 million of hay.
  
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• Bondi Sands the latest brand to recall sunscreens over SPF concerns

  14-11-2025 06:00 via abc.net.au
  
  A major Australian sunscreen brand, Bondi Sands is the latest to announce recalls over potential SPF concerns, and the first to remove products from shelves that have not been identified as using the same problematic base formulation.
  
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• Bondi Sands the latest brand to recall sunscreens over potential SPF concerns

  14-11-2025 06:00 via abc.net.au
  
  A major Australian sunscreen brand, Bondi Sands is the latest to announce recalls over potential SPF concerns, and the first to remove products from shelves that have not been identified as using the same problematic base formulation.
  
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• Tasmanian government releases draft bill for 'extremely risky' insurance venture

  14-11-2025 05:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Critics of a state-owned insurance company proposal say TasInsure has "no business case ... no financial modelling, and experts are saying it is extremely risky to the state's budget position", as draft legislation is produced for consultation.
  
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• Draft bill for 'extremely risky' insurance venture released

  14-11-2025 05:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Critics of a state-owned insurance company proposal say TasInsure has "no business case ... no financial modelling, and experts are saying it is extremely risky to the state's budget position", as draft legislation is produced for consultation.
  
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• SA Premier will prioritise saving Bedford over COP negotiations in Brazil

  14-11-2025 04:37 via abc.net.au
  
  South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas says he will "definitely not" go to Brazil for COP negotiations, and instead will prioritise saving disability employment provider Bedford. 
  
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• Breaking: SA Premier will prioritise saving Bedford over COP negotiations in Brazil

  14-11-2025 04:37 via abc.net.au
  
  South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas says he will "definitely not" go to Brazil for COP negotiations, and instead will prioritise saving disability employment provider Bedford. 
  
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• Investigators find no faults with plane involved in fatal crash

  14-11-2025 03:44 via abc.net.au
  
  An investigation into a fatal light plane crash that claimed three lives at an Illawarra Airport has so far found no mechanical faults in the aircraft. 
  
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• Medical waste destined for landfill used to nurse wildlife back to health

  14-11-2025 01:53 via abc.net.au
  
  A Victorian medical charity helps divert 15,000 tonnes of medical waste from landfill while giving wildlife carers the resources to nurse injured animals back to health.
  
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• This man's death was linked to the Optus outage, but his family still don't know how

  13-11-2025 22:38 via abc.net.au
  
  The family of a Perth man whose death was tied to the Optus Triple Zero outage claims authorities left them in the dark for weeks and are still unsure how his death was connected to the telco failure.
  
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• Family still waiting for answers on whether father's death linked to Optus outage

  13-11-2025 22:38 via abc.net.au
  
  The family of a Perth man whose death was tied to the Optus Triple Zero outage claims authorities left them in the dark for weeks and are still unsure how his death was connected to the telco failure.
  
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• Councils at the end of their tether with continued airline failures

  13-11-2025 21:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Regional councils say they want security bonds on airline carriers who use their airports to ensure stability for travellers.
  
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• Live: ASX poised to follow Wall Street falls as US stocks tumble

  13-11-2025 21:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Local stock market futures are pointing to a negative start to Friday's session. Tech stocks are leading losses on Wall Street. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• ASX drops sharply after Wall St tumbles — as it happened

  13-11-2025 21:36 via abc.net.au
  
  The ASX falls steeply in response to a sharp drop on Wall Street overnight, which was led by a big decline in tech stocks. TPG Telecom plunged 32 per cent after the stock traded without rights to the next dividend payment.
  
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• Questions raised over plan for coal and gas to bring down power bills

  13-11-2025 19:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Energy experts have cast doubt over the Liberal Party's central claim that it can bring down power prices by backing coal and gas, while questioning how the party plans to actually reduce emissions.
  
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• Doubts Liberal coal and gas push can cut prices — or emissions

  13-11-2025 19:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Energy experts have cast doubt over the Liberal Party's central claim that it can bring down power prices by backing coal and gas, while questioning how the party plans to actually reduce emissions.
  
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• Tasmanian salmon resilient to bacterial disease bred like 'stud bulls'

  13-11-2025 09:48 via abc.net.au
  
  A salmon mass mortality event caused by a bacterial outbreak has given scientists "a lot of genetic knowledge" to put to use in a selective breeding program.
  
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• Growing evidence of secret taxpayer-funded boats for illegal foreign fishers

  13-11-2025 08:45 via abc.net.au
  
  An Australian Border Force vessel has docked in Broome carrying four fishing boats, prompting anger from the fishing industry over a government scheme that gives illegal fishers boats to return home in.
  
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• 'Yes' vote on Macquarie Point as AFL stadium order sails through lower house

  13-11-2025 05:28 via abc.net.au
  
  An order to build the Macquarie Point AFL stadium on Hobart's waterfront has passed the lower house after a lengthy six-hour debate, paving the way for a deciding vote in the upper house next month.
  
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• LIVE: Debate begins for controversial Hobart stadium ahead of parliamentary vote

  13-11-2025 05:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Tasmania's lower house has started debating an "order" to build the Macquarie Point stadium.
  
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• Debate begins for controversial Hobart stadium ahead of parliamentary vote

  13-11-2025 05:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Tasmania's lower house has started debating an "order" to build the Macquarie Point stadium.
  
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• Hundreds of Qantas jobs to come to new innovation centre in Adelaide

  13-11-2025 03:36 via abc.net.au
  
  The South Australian government has entered into an agreement with Qantas for a Product Innovation Centre that is expected to create more than 420 technology jobs by the end of 2028.
  
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• Breaking: Hundreds of Qantas jobs to come to new innovation centre in Adelaide

  13-11-2025 03:36 via abc.net.au
  
  The South Australian government has entered into an agreement with Qantas for a Product Innovation Centre that is expected to create more than 420 technology jobs by the end of 2028.
  
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• Australia's unemployment rate slips to 4.3 per cent

  13-11-2025 01:39 via abc.net.au
  
  The unemployment rate fell to 4.3 per cent in October, down from 4.5 per cent in September, as the number of people in employment increased by 42,200.
  
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• Heavy metal band embarks on 16-hour round trip for 40-minute gig

  13-11-2025 00:54 via abc.net.au
  
  Heavy metal band KNAW dream of playing festivals one day. The problem is they are the only band of their kind around for hundreds of kilometres.
  
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• Queensland town fights to keep beloved caravan park

  12-11-2025 23:47 via abc.net.au
  
  Fraser Coast council is weighing whether to transform a popular tourism site into a public green space, prompting a backlash from thousands of locals.
  
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• Players in First Guardian, Shield sued after Australians lose more than $1b

  12-11-2025 23:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Corporate watchdog ASIC is suing several players involved in the collapses of Shield and/or First Guardian, which led to Australians losing more than $1 billion of their retirement savings. 
   
  
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