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• 'How much further can I be gutted?': Donald hopes the government will deliver on Youpla's broken promises

  12-05-2023 23:15 via abc.net.au
  
  For decades, funeral insurer ACBF Youpla sold policies to First Nations Australians despite attention for regulators. Now, two years after it collapsed, the government is still wrestling with how to compensate the company's customers.
  
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• Rio's favelas needed a sewerage network. Instead, they got a cable car — that no longer works

  12-05-2023 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  How Rio de Janeiro's defunct cable car became a symbol of the city's extreme social inequality and its disappointing Olympic legacy. 
  
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• Rio's favelas needed a sewage network. Instead, they got a cable car — that no longer works

  12-05-2023 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  How Rio de Janeiro's defunct cable car became a symbol of the city's extreme social inequality and its disappointing Olympic legacy. 
  
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• An 'Olympic ruin': The sad story of Rio de Janeiro's defunct cable car

  12-05-2023 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  How Rio de Janeiro's defunct cable car became a symbol of the city's extreme social inequality and its disappointing Olympic legacy. 
  
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• 'No retreat, no surrender': Zaira community leader vows to fight Australian man's plans to log 'precious relic'

  12-05-2023 21:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Villagers in Solomon Islands say they'll fight to prevent an Australian-owned company from logging in their pristine rainforest.
  
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• AustralianSuper's 'alarming' $70m double-up on customer accounts sparks calls for wider probe

  12-05-2023 09:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's biggest superannuation fund reveals that it has been double charging some customers, and will refund around $70 million in fees and insurance costs to about 100,000 people.
  
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• AustralianSuper's 'alarming' $70m double-up on customer accounts sparks calls for wider investigation

  12-05-2023 09:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's biggest superannuation fund reveals that it has been double charging some customers, and will refund around $70 million in fees and insurance costs to about 100,000 people.
  
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• Trade Minister Don Farrell given surprise Forbidden City tour, China's foreign minister to visit Australia

  12-05-2023 09:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Senator Farrell says he is "very privileged to be invited here to this iconic site" as a former Chinese diplomat describes the unexpected invitation as a "very high-level welcome from Beijing".
  
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• Calls for answers after recycling company that promised a 'revolution' collapses

  12-05-2023 07:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Bioelektra Australia has entered into voluntary administration after it was engaged to use Polish technology to divert 90 per cent of a NSW council's waste from landfill.
  
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• New coal mine in central Queensland set for approval — if a vulnerable snake can be protected

  12-05-2023 06:51 via abc.net.au
  
  The Isaac River Mine in central Queensland has been flagged for approval if a vulnerable snake can be protected, but an environmental group says people who voted in favour of climate action have a right to feel betrayed. 
  
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• Federal government gives provisional approval to first new coal mine in Bowen Basin

  12-05-2023 06:51 via abc.net.au
  
  A metallurgical coal mine in Central Queensland has been flagged for approval by the federal government, but an environmental group says people who voted in favour of climate action have a right to feel betrayed. 
  
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• 'A right to feel betrayed': New coal mine flagged for approval by federal government

  12-05-2023 06:51 via abc.net.au
  
  The Isaac River Mine in central Queensland has been flagged for approval if a vulnerable snake can be protected, but an environmental group says people who voted in favour of climate action have a right to feel betrayed. 
  
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• Murray Bridge abattoir looking for hundreds of workers as it reopens after fire

  12-05-2023 06:50 via abc.net.au
  
  Thomas Foods International is looking for hundreds of workers for its new Murray Bridge facility, five years after the previous one was destroyed by fire. 
  
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• Elon Musk says he has hired a woman to replace him as Twitter chief executive, but won't say who

  12-05-2023 02:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Elon Musk says he has found a woman to replace him as chief executive officer of Twitter and its newly named parent company, X Corp.
  
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• 'They need to be protected at all costs': Traditional owners fear for cultural sites at $1.5 billion industrial hub

  12-05-2023 01:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Larrakia traditional owners raised concerns with federal and territory ministers about the potential impact of a major industrial hub planned for Darwin before $1.5 billion of Commonwealth funding was confirmed.
  
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• FOI documents show ministers were told of risks to cultural sites at industrial hub near Darwin

  12-05-2023 01:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Larrakia traditional owners raised concerns with federal and territory ministers about the potential impact of a major industrial hub planned for Darwin before $1.5 billion of Commonwealth funding was confirmed.
  
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• First Nations tourism plan will 'reduce crime rate', promote ancient knowledge, leaders say

  12-05-2023 01:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Young people will be "so busy" working in tourism that there'll be no time for crime, an Indigenous leader says as Far North Queensland's First Nations tourism plan is launched.
  
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