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• 'It has tested me': Rebel Wilson responds to defamation case win

  22-07-2026 06:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Hollywood actor Rebel Wilson successfully defends a defamation case brought against her by the star of her directorial debut.
  
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• Investors gave Capital Guard $17 million for a bond scheme that didn't exist

  29-07-2026 09:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Everyday Australians who invested their retirement savings and inheritances with a wealth management company fear they have lost everything after the company's licence was cancelled for selling bank bonds that didn’t exist.
  
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• Investor swindled into buying $750,000 of corporate bonds that never existed

  29-07-2026 09:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Everyday Australians who invested their retirement savings and inheritances with a wealth management company fear they have lost everything after the company's licence was cancelled for selling bank bonds that didn’t exist.
  
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• How a wealth management firm swindled older Australians

  29-07-2026 09:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Everyday Australians who invested their retirement savings and inheritances with a wealth management company fear they have lost everything after the company's licence was cancelled for selling bank bonds that didn’t exist.
  
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• Taiwan to stop buying PNG gas on spot market over 'One China' spat

  29-07-2026 09:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Taiwan suspends some liquefied natural gas purchases from Papua New Guinea as part of an escalating diplomatic dispute over the future of its representative office in Port Moresby.
  
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• Inflation lower than expected in June but still 'uncomfortably high'

  29-07-2026 07:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Headline inflation was lower than expected in June, and some economists say the Reserve Bank is now unlikely to lift interest rates next month.
  
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• Motorists to lose fuel discount from Monday

  29-07-2026 05:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Drivers will lose the fuel excise discount as planned despite escalating pressure on global oil prices and warnings the world has depleted reserves.
  
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• What belongs in your FOGO bin? Definitely not Ozempic needles

  29-07-2026 05:21 via abc.net.au
  
  A north-west Tasmanian waste management company says it has a $700,000 per year problem, and council ratepayers are picking up the tab.
  
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• Hunter transmission line approved after rerouting around homes, frogs

  29-07-2026 05:06 via abc.net.au
  
  The Hunter Transmission Project will see more than 100 kilometres of large transmission lines built from the NSW Upper Hunter to Lake Macquarie, with the route amended to minimise impacts to private landholders and an endangered frog.
  
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• Australia's biggest gold miner called to help stabilise WA's power issues

  29-07-2026 05:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's biggest gold miner is being asked to carry a bigger load to resolve decades of power capacity and reliability woes on what WA Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson has described as the "largest and most isolated grid in the world". 
  
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• Judge slams law firm over delayed $120m payout to sacked Qantas workers

  29-07-2026 04:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Maurice Blackburn Lawyers has been handling a $120 million payout that Qantas agreed to pay its illegally sacked workers in 2024, with a judge rebuking the delayed compensation.
  
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• Judge slams law firm over delayed $120m payout to sacked Qantas staff

  29-07-2026 04:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Maurice Blackburn Lawyers has been handling a $120 million payout that Qantas agreed to pay its illegally sacked workers in 2024, with a judge rebuking the delayed compensation.
  
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• Without more oil a new refinery makes no sense

  29-07-2026 04:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Experts say a new refinery would still need to use imported oil and question how it would be competitive.
  
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• Without more oil, a new refinery makes no sense

  29-07-2026 04:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Experts say a new refinery would need to use imported oil and question how it would be competitive.
  
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• How much are you prepared to pay for fuel security?

  29-07-2026 04:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Experts say a new refinery would need to use imported oil and question how it would be competitive.
  
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• Queensland nightlife tsar recommends liquor law overhaul

  29-07-2026 02:15 via abc.net.au
  
  The government says changes to Christmas and Easter trading are off the table, as Queensland prepared to reinvigorate its nightlife ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 
  
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• Queensland night-life tsar recommends liquor law overhaul

  29-07-2026 02:15 via abc.net.au
  
  The government says changes to Christmas and Easter trading are off the table, as Queensland prepares to reinvigorate its nightlife ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 
  
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• PM's data centre plan may hit roadblock as energy debate heats up

  29-07-2026 01:14 via abc.net.au
  
  As two energy ministers oppose the prime minister's plan for national AI rules for data centres, the question over how to power the facilities intensifies. 
  
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• ASX rallies as chance of August rate hike tumbles — as it happened

  29-07-2026 00:29 via abc.net.au
  
  The ASX rallies after annual inflation eased back to 3.8 per cent in June, according to the ABS. 
  
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• 'Dead quiet' shops struggle after bridge's failure closes highway

  29-07-2026 00:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Jenolan, Oberon and Lithgow businesses cling on after Sydneysiders stop visiting due to the failure of a convict-built bridge and closure of the Great Western Highway.
  
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• Mural paints story of community's hope of turning tide on crime

  28-07-2026 22:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Police and young people work side-by-side on a large mural to build hope and connection in a town striving to reduce crime through a $13 million community alliance.
  
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• Marathon 24-hour Qantas flight tracked by 3.6 million internet users

  28-07-2026 17:15 via abc.net.au
  
  The specially-modified aircraft will be one of 12 used by Qantas to fly between Australia's east coast and Europe.
  
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• Home loan borrowers missing out on millions in offset savings

  28-07-2026 16:01 via abc.net.au
  
  The corporate regulator found Australian banks paid more than $55 million in compensation in just two years, for failures with mortgage offset accounts, warning customers could be paying more interest than they should.
  
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• Banks slammed for failing to pick up mortgage offset problems

  28-07-2026 16:01 via abc.net.au
  
  The corporate regulator found Australian banks paid more than $55 million in compensation in just two years, for failures with mortgage offset accounts, warning customers could be paying more interest than they should.
  
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• New Pacific aid map shows 'striking' shift away from China

  28-07-2026 14:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia supplants China as the dominant lender and infrastructure investor across the Pacific as the government ploughs billions of dollars into the region through both foreign aid and loans.
  
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• Australia supplants China as Pacific's biggest lender

  28-07-2026 14:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia supplants China as the dominant lender and infrastructure investor across the Pacific as the government ploughs billions of dollars into the region through both foreign aid and loans.
  
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• Body pulled from landslide at Solomon Islands gold mine

  28-07-2026 08:39 via abc.net.au
  
  A man's body has been recovered from the site of a landslide at Solomon Islands's only large-scale gold mine.
  
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• Body pulled from landslide at Solomon Islands gold mine

  28-07-2026 08:39 via abc.net.au
  
  A man's body has been recovered from the site of a landslide at Solomon Islands's only large-scale gold mine.
  
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• Transporter vessel arrives in Hobart ahead of 'complex' ship lift operation

  28-07-2026 08:38 via abc.net.au
  
  One of the world's largest heavy-lift ships has made anchor in Hobart's River Derwent, as it awaits its role in "one of the most complex maritime events" in Tasmania's history.
  
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• Big ship to be lifted onto even bigger ship in 'complex' operation

  28-07-2026 08:38 via abc.net.au
  
  One of the world's largest heavy-lift ships has made anchor in Hobart's River Derwent, as it awaits its role in "one of the most complex maritime events" in Tasmania's history.
  
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