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• Breaking: Headline inflation stable at 2.4pc while RBA's preferred measure drops within target

  30-04-2025 03:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Headline inflation has remained steady but the Reserve Bank's preferred measure of consumer prices has fallen within the RBA's target band for the first time in more than three years.
  
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• 'Not OK': Oldest regional art gallery in New South Wales left in lurch

  17-12-2025 22:33 via abc.net.au
  
  Malyangapa Baaka Wiimpatja artist Leroy Johnson says the axing of an arts grant, which he is the last recipient of, has left the Broken Hill arts community feeling unsupported. 
  
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• Live: More than $100m compensation to be paid to First Guardian investors

  17-12-2025 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Netwealth will pay out more than $100 million to First Guardian investors after it struck a deal with the corporate watchdog. Follow the day's events and insights as they happen with our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: AI worries drive Wall Street tech down, ASX to open flat

  17-12-2025 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Bellwether AI stocks trade significantly lower on Wall Street, sending the tech-heavy Nasdaq down 1.4 per cent. Follow the day's events and insights as they happen with our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Mining exploration heads underground in Victoria amid gold 'renaissance'

  17-12-2025 21:01 via abc.net.au
  
  The Victorian government approves two companies to drill deep underground exploration tunnels amid a gold "renaissance" driven by high gold prices.
  
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• Mother of three to spend second Christmas in outback home-town motel

  17-12-2025 20:59 via abc.net.au
  
  When Leylanie moved her family back to her home town a year ago, she did not expect to be spending this Christmas still living out of a motel.
  
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• Workforce shortages could 'escalate costs' ahead of Brisbane 2032

  17-12-2025 20:34 via abc.net.au
  
  The Queensland auditor-general says there will be a higher risk of delays and cost escalations for infrastructure projects ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games due to shortages in key trade occupations.
  
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• Warner Bros rejects rival $163bn bid from Paramount

  17-12-2025 14:40 via abc.net.au
  
  In a letter to shareholders, the board wrote that Paramount had "consistently misled" Warner Bros shareholders that its $US30-per-share cash offer was fully guaranteed, or "backstopped," by the Ellison family,
  
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• Miner refuses to revive rail line from world's biggest lithium mine

  17-12-2025 08:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Talison Lithium rules out reopening a century-old rail line from the world's biggest lithium mine, despite ongoing complaints about truck traffic and dust.
  
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• Short-term spending rises despite overall budget improvement

  17-12-2025 02:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher hand down their first budget update since the 2025 federal election.
  
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• Push to recognise home of 70-metre-tall 'world champion' spotted gum

  17-12-2025 02:09 via abc.net.au
  
  Thought to be 500 years old, a 70-metre-tall spotted gum is almost hidden in the middle of a South Coast state forest. Conservationists want the "world champion" tree and the forest it lives in recognised and celebrated.
  
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• Court win for traders seeking compensation over Sydney light rail

  17-12-2025 01:04 via abc.net.au
  
  The move clears the way for businesses to seek compensation from the NSW government after the project hampered traders in the city's CBD for four years.
  
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• Apex predator returns to major river system, 100 years after extinction event

  16-12-2025 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  An important apex predator died out 100 years ago due to overfishing and land clearing. Now, a close relative is bringing balance back to the habitat.
  
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• 'Scandal waiting to happen': Powerful new development laws pass WA parliament

  16-12-2025 06:56 via abc.net.au
  
  The powers allow WA Premier Roger Cook and a bureaucrat to sign off on projects with "strategic or economic significance", sparking concerns about the wide-ranging powers and potential environmental impact.
  
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• Rob Reiner's classic films and the lines that have endured

  16-12-2025 05:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Rob Reiner directed some classic films, many of which contained quotable lines that stuck around long after he yelled "cut!"
  
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• Trump sues BBC for $US10 billion over documentary edit

  16-12-2025 03:21 via abc.net.au
  
  US President Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against the BBC in Miami federal court, seeking at least $US10 billion ($15.1 billion) in damages.
  
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• HelloFresh and Youfoodz sued by ACCC over allegedly misleading consumers

  16-12-2025 01:35 via abc.net.au
  
  The consumer watchdog is suing home meal delivery providers HelloFresh and Youfoodz for allegedly misleading consumers over subscriptions. 
  
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• How NSW's consent laws now protect sex workers against fraudulent clients

  16-12-2025 00:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Victims say NSW Police's frontline officers are still catching up with the changed legislation, which makes non-payment for sexual services a criminal offence.
  
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• Gelignite blasts, overfishing, habitat destruction decimated Mary River cod numbers

  15-12-2025 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Mary River cod were fished to the brink of extinction, their habitat destroyed, even blasted with gelignite, but a recovery plan is being updated.
  
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• ASX wilts as sentiment turns against miners and banks — as it happened

  15-12-2025 21:44 via abc.net.au
  
  The ASX slipped into the red after a positive start to the session, dragged down by energy stocks, miners and the banks
  
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• WA firefighters lose 'life and death' mobile services in power outage

  15-12-2025 07:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Firefighters are left without communications while battling emergency-level bushfires as an extended power outage sees mobile phone towers fail.
  
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• Shares in stock exchange operator ASX fall after damning inquiry

  15-12-2025 07:29 via abc.net.au
  
  ASX bosses say they are committed to reform after the corporate regulator lashes the operator's failings in a report, saying it underestimates long-term problems, is insular and defensive with deficiencies in culture and leadership.
  
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• Beetaloo Station sold in historic $300m deal to CPC

  15-12-2025 05:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Consolidated Pastoral Company spends more than $300 million to buy the Beetaloo aggregation of stations in the NT.
  
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• NSW inquest told how exploding lithium-ion batteries turned deadly

  15-12-2025 05:36 via abc.net.au
  
  A NSW inquest has been told exploding lithium-ion batteries caused volatile fires killing three people in separate blazes within minutes.
  
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• Inquest to probe death of miner at central Queensland site

  15-12-2025 04:01 via abc.net.au
  
  The veteran miner died when the bulldozer he was operating rolled off an embankment into a pool of mud. 
  
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• Karratha residents hopeful as council bids for international airport

  14-12-2025 22:32 via abc.net.au
  
  The City of Karratha has applied to the federal government for international airport status in a move that has been welcomed by residents.
  
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• Gold Coast builder gobsmacked as alleged scammer claims to be his nephew

  14-12-2025 19:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Police say a warrant has been issued for the man's arrest in relation to the matter.
  
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• Super funds accused of delaying insurance claims

  14-12-2025 19:39 via abc.net.au
  
  The regulator has found that while some superannuation funds have improved insurance claims response times, others are still falling short, with long delays in relation to mental health claims. 
  
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• AI on a Triple Zero call? Australians are open to that

  14-12-2025 06:54 via abc.net.au
  
  Could artificial intelligence speed up emergency responses by receiving a caller's video or smartwatch data and capturing words like "knife" and "collision"? Most people think so and welcome the technology's potential, a survey finds.
  
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• Coles and Woolworths hit back at government's price gouging ban

  14-12-2025 02:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Lower grocery bills are being promised within this new ban on price gouging, but giant retailers say they are the ones feeling the pinch.
  
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