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• Facebook surges 19pc on unexpectedly strong results, ASX snaps three-day losing streak

  27-04-2022 23:43 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market has risen in morning trade, after Wall Street recovered slightly from its heavy losses in recent days, while shares in Facebook parent Meta surged 19 per cent as it posted better-than-expected results after the closing bell.
  
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• Facebook surges 19pc on unexpectedly strong results, ASX set to snap three-day losing streak

  27-04-2022 23:43 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market is set to rise after Wall Street began to recover from its heavy losses in recent days, while shares in Facebook parent Meta surged 19 per cent as it posted better-than-expected results after the closing bell.
  
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• Coles warns grocery prices and inflation will rise through to 2023, Australian shares rebound

  27-04-2022 23:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Supermarket giant Coles warns shoppers to expect higher prices at its stores for at least another year, while the Australian share market rebounds after a three-day losing streak.
  
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• Coles warns grocery prices and inflation will rise through to 2023; ASX rebounds

  27-04-2022 23:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Supermarket giant Coles warns shoppers to expect higher prices at its stores for at least another year, while the Australian share market rebounds after a three-day losing streak.
  
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• ASX snaps three-day losing streak, Facebook surges 19pc on unexpectedly strong results

  27-04-2022 23:43 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market has risen in morning trade, after Wall Street recovered slightly from its heavy losses in recent days, while shares in Facebook parent Meta surged 19 per cent as it posted better-than-expected results after the closing bell.
  
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• ASX set to snap three-day losing streak, Wall Street recovers from sharp losses

  27-04-2022 23:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares are set to rise on opening, after US markets recovered slightly overnight from their heavy losses in recent days.
  
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• North-west gets eco-tourism boost as state allocates $500k for adventure trail

  27-04-2022 23:41 via abc.net.au
  
  The Victorian government has allocated $500,000 to plan and design a new rail trail in the state's north-west.
  
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• 500k to transform old supply route to eco-tourism adventure trail

  27-04-2022 23:41 via abc.net.au
  
  The Victorian government has allocated $500,000 to plan and design a new rail trail in the state's north-west.
  
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• The world is using sand faster than it can be replaced

  27-04-2022 23:14 via abc.net.au
  
  A United Nations report is calling for urgent action to avert a sand crisis as population growth and urbanisation triple demand for the world's most exploited natural resource after water. 
  
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• Access all areas: High hopes for Perth's hospitality and events industries as COVID fears fade

  27-04-2022 23:08 via abc.net.au
  
  With most of WA's COVID restrictions ending tomorrow, hospitality and events businesses gear up for what they hope will be a bumper winter of revellers returning to Perth's CBD.
  
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• From today, fruit pickers can't earn less than $25.41 an hour and you might see that price in your basket

  27-04-2022 22:44 via abc.net.au
  
  Shoppers are being warned cost of living pressures may get worse from today as pay changes on farms across the country have the potential to make fruit and vegetables more expensive.
  
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• The $250 Cost Of Living payments are going out today. Here's who gets one

  27-04-2022 21:03 via abc.net.au
  
  The one-off bonus will be paid to eligible concession card holders and people on certain Centrelink and Department of Veterans Affairs payments.
  
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• 'Unsuited for Australia's needs': Former navy chief calls for nation to back out of $45b frigate deal

  27-04-2022 16:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Vice Admiral David Shackleton says Australia's troubled $45 billion future frigate program should be scrapped, arguing the British-designed warships "won't give the government a range of military options it could need for managing a conflict".
  
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• 'Unsuited for Australia's needs': Former navy chief calls for nation to back out of $45 billion frigate deal

  27-04-2022 16:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Vice Admiral David Shackleton says Australia's troubled $45 billion future frigate program should be scrapped, arguing the British-designed warships "won't give the government a range of military options it could need for managing a conflict".
  
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• Retired navy chief says warships planned to replace Australia's ageing fleet not powerful enough

  27-04-2022 16:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Vice Admiral David Shackleton says Australia's troubled $45 billion future frigate program should be scrapped, arguing the British-designed warships "won't give the government a range of military options it could need for managing a conflict".
  
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• Call for help as burials delayed for months after collapse of rogue funeral insurance group

  27-04-2022 10:03 via abc.net.au
  
  More than 100 organisations write to the federal government requesting compensation for Indigenous families affected by the collapse of funeral insurance provider Youpla Group.
  
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• Russia halts gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria

  27-04-2022 09:23 via abc.net.au
  
  It is the Kremlin's toughest response yet to the crippling sanctions imposed by the West for the invasion of Ukraine.
  
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• Russia ceases gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria

  27-04-2022 09:23 via abc.net.au
  
  It is the Kremlin's toughest response yet to the crippling sanctions imposed by the West for the invasion of Ukraine.
  
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• 'Gas blackmail': Russia ceases gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria

  27-04-2022 09:23 via abc.net.au
  
  It is the Kremlin's toughest response yet to the crippling sanctions imposed by the West for the invasion of Ukraine.
  
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• Europe says it will not bow to 'blackmail' after Russia ceases gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria

  27-04-2022 09:23 via abc.net.au
  
  The European Union accuses Russia of using gas to blackmail member states as Poland looks elsewhere and Russia issues a denial of the EU accusation.
  
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• Kate is living in a tent across from a landslip so she can get her children to medical appointments

  27-04-2022 09:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Kate Buckman's home is cut off from town by a road damaged by floods earlier this year. She needs to access the town's services, so she's set up camp on the other side of a landslip.
  
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• Coroner's urgent call for new mental health unit in Kalgoorlie after 20yo's death

  27-04-2022 08:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Jordan Williams died after escaping from Kalgoorlie Hospital's mental health unit where, a coroner says, conditions were so poor some psychiatrists refused to work there. 
  
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• Treasurer blames grim inflation figures on COVID-19, war in Ukraine

  27-04-2022 07:10 via abc.net.au
  
  The Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is blaming international volatility for today's inflation figures, which show the sharpest rise in cost of living pressures in more than two decades.
  
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• 'Australians are getting absolutely smashed': Labor hits out at government's plan to tackle inflation

  27-04-2022 07:10 via abc.net.au
  
  The Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is blaming international volatility for today's inflation figures, which show the sharpest rise in cost of living pressures in more than two decades.
  
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• Labor promises crackdown on tax loopholes for multinationals

  27-04-2022 04:47 via abc.net.au
  
  Labor has laid out its economic plan for the next term, saying it will focus on lifting wages, cutting wasteful spending and a crack down on multinational tax avoidance that would add almost $2 billion to government coffers.
  
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• Robo advice vs digital advice: what is the difference?

  27-04-2022 04:25
  Robo advice vs digital advice: what is the difference? The Government’s Quality of Advice Review is one of the most important financial services policy reviews to be held in recent years. It will consider improvements to the regulatory framework to reduce complexity and better enable accessible and affordable advice for consumers, so they can access quality advice when they need it and in a form they want. 
  Included in the Review’s terms of reference is consideration of the oppo
  
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• Axing of remote timber nursery plan casts doubt on Victoria's shift away from native logging

  27-04-2022 03:37 via abc.net.au
  
  It was meant to be the engine room of the state's move towards hardwood plantation timber, but after two years of delays, plans for a nursery at Nowa Nowa have been abandoned.
  
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• May 'in play' for a rate hike as cost of living surges by most in 20 years

  27-04-2022 03:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Consumer prices jump by the most since the GST was introduced, with the cost of living up 5.1 per cent over the past year, prompting increasing speculation of an interest rate rise as early as next week.
  
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• Cost of living surges most since 2001, may trigger interest rate rise next week

  27-04-2022 03:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Consumer prices surge by the most since June 2001, with the cost of living up 5.1 per cent over the past year.
  
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• Russia has cut gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria because they won't pay in roubles. Here's why

  27-04-2022 02:42 via abc.net.au
  
  Russia's energy giant halts gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland and threatens more European countries relying on it will follow if they don't bend to one specific demand.
  
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• Here's why Russia has suspended gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria

  27-04-2022 02:42 via abc.net.au
  
  Vladimir Putin says countries "unfriendly" to Russia will have to pay for natural gas in roubles rather than euros or dollars.
  
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• Gold Coast to host major air show from 2023, in 'one of the biggest shows it has ever seen'

  27-04-2022 02:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Organisers hope the event will attract hundreds of thousands of people to the Gold Coast.
  
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