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• 'It's someone else's turn': Glebe Markets owner on why he's packing it in after 30 years

  03-02-2023 22:09 via abc.net.au
  
  David McCumstie says he gave stall owners at the famous Sydney market adequate notice, despite some saying they felt blindsided by the announcement this week.
  
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• The history of EVs is long and weird. This rusty Porsche, parked in Melbourne, sums it up

  03-02-2023 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Converted from petrol in the 1950s, the world's first electric Porsche is parked in a Melbourne workshop. Here's how it got here — and the forgotten history of early EVs.
  
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• The history of EVs is long and weird and this rusty Porsche, parked in Melbourne, sums it up

  03-02-2023 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Converted from petrol in the 1950s, the world's first electric Porsche is parked in a Melbourne workshop. Here's how it got here — and the forgotten history of early EVs.
  
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• What the heck was that radioactive capsule emergency in Western Australia all about?

  03-02-2023 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  It began as the scarcely believable tale of a very tiny and very lost radioactive "Tic Tac" in the Australian desert, and ended up a planet-sized news story.
  
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• Move over Hollywood. Japanese anime and manga are experiencing an 'explosion of growth'

  03-02-2023 20:50 via abc.net.au
  
  The secret to the success of Japanese animation. Why your kids are obsessed with it. And what climate change has to do with its popularity. 
  
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• Reserve Bank letters reveal decisions behind dropping King Charles from $5 note

  03-02-2023 11:50 via abc.net.au
  
  Letters from the Reserve Bank to some of the government's most senior ministers have shed light on this week's decision not to show the monarch on Australia's $5 note.
  
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• Supermarket giants told to clean up three Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of soft plastics

  03-02-2023 07:41 via abc.net.au
  
  The Environment Protection Authority warns the enormous stockpiles of soft plastics are sitting in warehouses from "floor to the ceiling, blocking entry ways and preventing adequate ventilation".
  
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• Taxpayer-funded review that found 'flaws' in Robodebt scheme was discontinued

  03-02-2023 06:02 via abc.net.au
  
  In a deal worth almost $1 million, the Department of Human Services engaged a consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to review the budget savings program, but then declined to see the end result.
  
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• The eureka moment WA's tiny radioactive capsule was found along an outback highway

  03-02-2023 05:10 via abc.net.au
  
  The potentially deadly device is being held in a secure location in Perth as the team who found it reveal the somewhat "daunting" moment they realised they were standing near the capsule.
  
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• Authorities tight-lipped on secret location of radioactive capsule, as team who found it unveiled

  03-02-2023 05:10 via abc.net.au
  
  The potentially deadly device is being held in a secure location in Perth as the team who found it reveal the somewhat 'daunting' moment they realised they were standing near the capsule.
  
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• PEP-11 project revived after Labor refuses to defend Scott Morrison's secret ministry action

  03-02-2023 04:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Former prime minister Scott Morrison's decision to reject a controversial offshore gas exploration licence off the New South Wales coast is set to be overturned.
  
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• Federal government teases strategy on battery storage and power prices

  03-02-2023 03:50 via abc.net.au
  
  The federal government will spend the next few weeks talking to energy storage companies before revealing what it will do to help build more big batteries around the country. 
  
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• Here's why hardly anyone is registering their Airbnb on the Gold Coast

  03-02-2023 03:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The secret short-term rental market is cheating councils out of millions and exacerbating the housing shortage.
  
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• Gold Coast cracks down on the rogue Airbnb operators making the housing crisis worse

  03-02-2023 03:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The secret short-term rental market is cheating councils out of millions and exacerbating the housing shortage.
  
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• Twiggy Forrest's FFI reports signing contracts with 'more than 50' Esperance landowners

  03-02-2023 02:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Fortescue Future Industries' global campaign to become a green hydrogen superpower will continue its push into Esperance where it claims to have signatures from "more than 50" owners willing to lease it land.
  
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• Independent MP Monique Ryan and chief of staff Sally Rugg agree to mediation in work hours dispute

  03-02-2023 02:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Federal independent MP Monique Ryan and her chief of staff, Sally Rugg, put their legal dispute on ice, agreeing to go to mediation after their lawyers front the Federal Court.
  
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• Investing in preparation rather than payouts would push insurance premiums down, industry body says

  03-02-2023 00:33 via abc.net.au
  
  The peak body for insurers wants the Victorian government to invest in preparing communities for natural disasters instead of relying on insurance payouts.
  
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• As premiums rise, insurers call for disaster preparation rather than recovery

  03-02-2023 00:33 via abc.net.au
  
  The peak body for insurers wants the Victorian government to invest in preparing communities for natural disasters instead of relying on insurance payouts.
  
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• Virgin Australia owes this WA town more than $500k and may not pay it all back

  03-02-2023 00:27 via abc.net.au
  
  The local council expects to get about 10 per cent of what it is owed from accrued airport fees, but the vast majority of the debt is likely to be written off.
  
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