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• Rex grounds two routes 10 months after $60m rescue package

  14-10-2026 07:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Less than a year after Rex was sold with the aid of a federal government rescue package, the embattled airline has suspended services to Orange and Port Macquarie.
  
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• Scheduling a 4.55pm meeting on Friday should be a workplace offence

  15-10-2026 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  If you want to work 10 or 12-hour days, go for it. But don’t force it on others and, for goodness’ (and your own) sake, leave Friday exempt.
  
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• Priscilla star Marney McQueen sells Wyong’s Royal for $22m, heads to Melb

  15-10-2026 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Actress and pub owner Marney McQueen and her husband Frank Arangio are moving to Melbourne after selling their Central Coast pub for a whopping $22 million.
  
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• Is Karl Stefanovic now Australia’s most famous small business owner?

  15-10-2026 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  In this week’s On Background, Karl Stefanovic’s love fest at the CPAC Australia conference, ABC’S latest recruit gets a taste of what he is up against at the public broadcaster and News24 goes gaga for MAGA.
  
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• Eisen family spend chunk of Afterpay billions on swanky $12m Armadale shop

  15-10-2026 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The couple moved to Melbourne around 2020 and paid $26 million for a Toorak mansion. They also splashed out $13 million on a “modest” Byron Bay pad.
  
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• Sailors missing as two ships set ablaze in Romanian Black Sea

  15-10-2026 12:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Rescuers were searching for seven missing crew members from one of two chemical tankers that caught fire in Romanian territorial waters.
  
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• Corporate cop makes explosive claims about former Super Retail boss’ ‘intimate’ relationship

  15-10-2026 10:27 via smh.com.au
  
  ASIC claims the retailer’s former boss pleaded with his ex-wife to keep quiet about the secret workplace relationship which led to his sacking and a lawsuit alleging he misled the market.
  
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• ACCC takes Kmart to court over nail glue burns and button battery safety

  15-10-2026 09:09 via abc.net.au
  
  The consumer watchdog has taken legal action against Kmart, alleging it breached Australian consumer law by selling millions of bottles of nail glue that caused burns.
  
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• Corporate cop says former Super Retail boss misled market over ‘romantic or intimate’ relationship

  15-10-2026 08:29 via smh.com.au
  
  ASIC has made explosive claims about an alleged undisclosed relationship between the company’s former CEO and HR boss.
  
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• China 'dumped' aluminium windows and doors in Australia, report finds

  15-10-2026 08:23 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's international trade monitor has found the Chinese exports aluminium windows and doors were "dumped" here, heavily undercutting local prices and damaging the local industry.
   
  
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• Golden Dragon sniffs out 2.2km gold footprint in WA

  15-10-2026 07:56 via smh.com.au
  
  Golden Dragon Mining has outlined a 2.2km gold anomaly at its Stella Range project in WA, just 12km south of Brightstar Resources’ 267,000-ounce Lord Byron deposit.
  
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• Broken Hill lines up drill bit on huge copper-gold target in SA

  15-10-2026 07:46 via smh.com.au
  
  Broken Hill Gold has launched 3000m of drilling to test a massive geophysical target beneath high-grade copper-gold hits at its White Dam project in South Australia.
  
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• Augustus circles giant PNG gold prize in Porgera backyard

  15-10-2026 07:15 via smh.com.au
  
  Augustus Minerals is chasing a massive gold prize in PNG, lodging an application for the Mt Kare project, a geological cousin to the nearby 32-million-ounce Porgera giant.
  
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• The three factors driving NSW unemployment to a five-year high

  15-10-2026 07:12 via smh.com.au
  
  The NSW unemployment rate hit 4.7 per cent last month, the highest level since November 2021.
  
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• Kmart sold fingernail glue that burnt without safety warnings, watchdog says

  15-10-2026 06:58 via smh.com.au
  
  The fingernail glue led to customers complaining of burns, reporting to hospital and even requiring skin grafts, the consumer watchdog has alleged.
  
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• Kmart sold fingernail glue that burned without safety warnings, watchdog says

  15-10-2026 06:58 via smh.com.au
  
  The fingernail glue led to customers complaining of burns, reporting to hospital and even requiring skin grafts, the consumer watchdog has alleged.
  
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• Ferry fight heads to court as Kangaroo Island shutdown confirmed

  15-10-2026 06:58 via abc.net.au
  
  The operator of Kangaroo Island's "lifeline" ferry has launched legal action to get the second of two long-promised new ferries delivered to Australia. 
  
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• Starlink’s growing influence has one big point of failure

  15-10-2026 06:57 via smh.com.au
  
  Starlink’s futuristic premise – satellite-delivered broadband – brings with it the thoroughly un-modern prospect of our access being controlled by one man: Elon Musk.
  
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• Gateway reshuffles top brass for WA Yandal gold push

  15-10-2026 06:55 via smh.com.au
  
  Gateway Mining has reshuffled its board, appointing a new MD and Chairman to drive aggressive gold exploration at its well-funded Yandal project, 85km northeast of Wiluna in WA.
  
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• Expert says trust use to avoid tax 'bordering on a joke'

  15-10-2026 06:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Small business advocates say it is a misconception that trusts are only used by wealthy families to minimise tax, but one expert says the current system is "bordering on a joke" and in urgent need of reform.
  
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• NT Opposition leader calls for moratorium on 'hyper-scale' data centres

  15-10-2026 06:42 via abc.net.au
  
  The Territory Labor opposition says a moratorium on "hyper-scale" data centres should be imposed until July next year, while a review into them is undertaken.
  
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• NT Labor backflips, supports 'hyper-scale' data centre moratorium

  15-10-2026 06:42 via abc.net.au
  
  The Territory Labor opposition says a moratorium on "hyper-scale" data centres should be imposed until July next year, while a review into them is undertaken.
  
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• Abundance or extinction? We can still influence AI’s outcome, but not for long

  15-10-2026 06:00 via smh.com.au
  
  There are two very distinct narratives emerging about AI right now, and they’re both getting more extreme.
  
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• Adelaide University to offer staff early retirements as financial woes grow

  15-10-2026 05:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Less than a year after a $500 million state government-backed merger, the new Adelaide University is already looking to cut staff numbers by offering early retirement packages. 
  
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• Zenith hits 14 from 14 in WA gold drilling campaign

  15-10-2026 05:04 via smh.com.au
  
  Zenith Minerals has hit more gold at its Dulcie project in WA, including 6m at 4.14g/t gold. All 14 holes assayed at Dulcie Central have now returned gold mineralisation.
  
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• Industrial relations minister could terminate strikes under proposed Qld laws

  15-10-2026 04:23 via abc.net.au
  
  Protected industrial action could be terminated if it would threaten to endanger the life, personal safety, health or welfare or cause significant damage to the state's economy.
  
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• Iron Bear retakes full control of generational Canadian iron ore giant

  15-10-2026 04:11 via smh.com.au
  
  Iron Bear Resources has regained full control of its giant Canadian iron ore project, leaving it holding a US$9B NPV prize and the freedom to chase heavyweight funding partners.
  
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• Yass Valley Council residents facing possible 76pc rate rise

  15-10-2026 03:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Independent consultants have found the council would need to generate an extra $8.3 million from operations each year by 2027-28 to maintain its financial and infrastructure position.
  
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• 'Not a lot we can do': Yass council region faces 76pc rate hike

  15-10-2026 03:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Independent consultants have found the council would need to generate an extra $8.3 million from operations each year by 2027-28 to maintain its financial and infrastructure position.
  
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• Locksley fires up copper growth push across NSW heartland

  15-10-2026 03:04 via smh.com.au
  
  Locksley Resources has unveiled a copper growth strategy at its Greater Tottenham district in NSW. The plan combines its 9.86Mt Tottenham resource with the newly optioned Iron Duke project, covering 1000sqkm.
  
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