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• Paediatricians sound alarm over fracking-related health risks

  06-06-2023 23:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Forty-five medical specialists, supported by federal independent MP Monique Ryan, have outlined their concerns of both the direct and indirect health risks of fracking in a letter addressed to the NT Chief Minister.
  
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• Live: Your questions answered as economic growth stalls while RBA governor defends rate hike, ASX treads water

  06-06-2023 23:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's economy is close to stall speed, with growth disappointing in the March quarter. RBA governor Philip Lowe defends the bank's decision to raise rates yesterday. Follow the day's events and send your questions to our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.
  
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• Live: RBA governor Philip Lowe defends rate rise, ASX makes gains

  06-06-2023 23:28 via abc.net.au
  
  RBA governor Philip Lowe says yesterday's interest rate rise was needed despite the pain it will cause households because inflation is too high.  Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: RBA boss speaks on why rates were raised, ASX set to open higher

  06-06-2023 23:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Investors are awaiting the latest economic growth figures in the wake of the Reserve Bank raising interest rates. Meanwhile, US stocks have increased. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: Philip Lowe set to speak on why RBA delivered another rate rise

  06-06-2023 23:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Investors are awaiting the latest economic growth figures in the wake of the Reserve Bank raising interest rates. Meanwhile, US stocks have increased. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: Philip Lowe defends rate rise, ASX opens higher

  06-06-2023 23:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Investors are awaiting the latest economic growth figures in the wake of the Reserve Bank raising interest rates. Meanwhile, the ASX has opened higher. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: GDP figures in focus as ASX set to open higher, Wall Street rises

  06-06-2023 23:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Investors are awaiting the latest economic growth figures in the wake of the Reserve Bank raising interest rates. Meanwhile, US stocks have increased. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: Economic growth stalls as RBA governor defends latest rate rise, but ASX makes gains

  06-06-2023 23:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's economy is close to stall speed, with growth disappointing in the March quarter. RBA governor Philip Lowe defends the bank's decision to raise rates yesterday. Follow the day's events and send your questions to our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Economic growth stalls as RBA governor Philip Lowe defends latest rate rise, and ASX ends lower — as it happened

  06-06-2023 23:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's economy is close to stall speed, with growth disappointing in the March quarter. RBA governor Philip Lowe defends the bank's decision to raise rates yesterday.  The ASX reversed course and ended lower. 
  
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• Major copper mine's life extended to 2040 to meet demand from construction renewable energy and construction sectors

  06-06-2023 23:12 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian critical minerals will be more important than ever to fuel growing renewables demand amid dwindling supplies, according to Evolution Mining, which just extended its mine life 17 years.
  
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• Major copper mine extends life to 2040 as global renewables demand rises, supply issues loom

  06-06-2023 23:12 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian critical minerals will be more important than ever to fuel growing renewables demand amid dwindling supplies, according to Evolution Mining, which just extended its mine life 17 years.
  
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• Retail giants threatened with mandatory levy after new sustainability scheme attracts just six members

  06-06-2023 23:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's biggest fashion retailers are being threatened with a mandatory levy on garment sales, after many big names failed to sign up to a new scheme to tackle the 200,000 tonnes of old clothes going into landfill each year. 
  
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• Just six Australian fashion giants sign up to a scheme to tackle their industry's waste problem

  06-06-2023 23:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's biggest fashion retailers are being threatened with a mandatory levy on garment sales, after many big names failed to sign up to a new scheme to tackle the 200,000 tonnes of old clothes going into landfill each year. 
  
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• Fashion has a waste problem, and retailers in Australia are reluctant to sign up to a possible solution

  06-06-2023 23:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's biggest fashion retailers are being threatened with a mandatory levy on garment sales, after many big names failed to sign up to a new scheme to tackle the 200,000 tonnes of old clothes going into landfill each year. 
  
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• A new scheme aims to make clothing more sustainable. Only six Australian brands have signed up

  06-06-2023 23:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's biggest fashion retailers are being threatened with a mandatory levy on garment sales, after many big names failed to sign up to a new scheme to tackle the 200,000 tonnes of old clothes going into landfill each year. 
  
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• Canberra rape support centre says journalists contacted it for information on Brittany Higgins

  06-06-2023 22:43 via abc.net.au
  
  The Canberra Rape Crisis Centre has called out the Australian media for its reporting surrounding sexual assault and says journalists have been contacting it about Brittany Higgins.
  
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• Westpac launches new cards for visually impaired

  06-06-2023 21:34 via abc.net.au
  
  The bank launched the cards to help those who have vision impairments.
  
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• How these new bank cards could make the lives of vision-impaired people easier

  06-06-2023 21:34 via abc.net.au
  
  The bank launched the cards to help those who have vision impairments.
  
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• Same job, same pay: A matter of fairness or a 'dangerous' attack on business?

  06-06-2023 21:30 via abc.net.au
  
  A campaign has been launched to try and kill off the government's proposed "same job, same pay" changes. What do we know about what the government is looking to achieve? 
  
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• Mortgage borrowers have never done it tougher, while renters are back to where they were in 2019

  06-06-2023 20:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Research shows that mortgage borrowers are paying the highest share of their income on housing costs in at least four decades, but the current situation for renters is not historically unusual.
  
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• Whitehaven pushes for nine-year extension to coal mine David Pocock protested

  06-06-2023 10:05 via abc.net.au
  
  The mine where former Wallaby David Pocock chained himself to plant equipment when construction started nearly a decade ago wants to extend its operations.
  
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• Markets surprised by June rate call

  06-06-2023 08:21
  
  Markets surprised by June rate callrnathTue, 2023-06-06 16:21 Rhea Nath Rhea L Nath is a journalist at Money Management. She has previously worked as a business reporter with Dynamic Business and journalist in the multicultural media with Indian Link Media Group. In 2022, she was named Young Journalist of the Year at the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Communications Awards. Rhea's social profiles: E-mail AuthorMore articles by Rhea:View articles on Money ManagementPrint0SaveNo votes have been
  
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• Property developer apologises, vows to fix 'design issues' in NSW south coast homes after residents complain of leaks

  06-06-2023 07:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Frasers Property Australia says 12 remedial teams are fixing "design issues" in some of the 3,500 homes being built in Shellharbour, but some residents are critical of the slow pace.
  
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• Convicted paedophile tells bankruptcy hearing cancer diagnosis prompted asset shed

  06-06-2023 07:24 via abc.net.au
  
  A court hears paedophile John Wayne Millwood transferred more than $800,000 to his former partner and daughter the same day he was sentenced for sexually abusing a person who is now in a legal fight to claim a $6 million compensation payout.
  
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• Rates rise smashes business owner already working two jobs

  06-06-2023 06:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Mia De Rauch says she has "no more time to give" as she runs a video production business and works hospitality shifts to keep up with increasing mortgage repayments and bills. 
  
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• How much extra could mortgage repayments be, now that the cash rate is 4.1 per cent?

  06-06-2023 06:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Tell us your loan size, term and interest rate, and our mortgage repayment calculator will work out how much extra you may have to pay on your loan. 
  
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• 'The risk of a hard landing has grown today': Economists warn latest rate rise may go too far

  06-06-2023 06:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Interest rates climb above 4 per cent for the first time in more than 11 years, as the Reserve Bank moves aggressively to clamp down on inflation.
  
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• Property analyst warns of 'panicky selling' as RBA pushes interest rates past breaking point

  06-06-2023 06:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Interest rates climb above 4 per cent for the first time in more than 11 years, as the Reserve Bank moves aggressively to clamp down on inflation.
  
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• Cash rate surges past 4 per cent as RBA hikes again

  06-06-2023 06:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Interest rates climb above 4 per cent for the first time in more than 11 years, as the Reserve Bank moves aggressively to clamp down on inflation.
  
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• Advisory firms best able to weather fee pressures

  06-06-2023 06:29
  
  Advisory firms best able to weather fee pressures
  Laura DewTue, 2023-06-06 14:29 Laura Dew Laura Dew is editor at Money Management. Prior to joining MM, she spent five years working at Investment Week in the UK, covering asset and wealth management. Laura's social profiles: E-mail Author Twitter More articles by Laura:View articles on Money ManagementPrint0SaveNo votes have been submitted yet.
  
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• Unreliable access taxis 'compromise safety' of people with disabilities, advocate says

  06-06-2023 04:26 via abc.net.au
  
  A disability advocate's call for all Adelaide taxis to be made fully accessible is being considered by the SA government — but it says a solution will not be in next week's state budget.
  
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• Access taxi 'roulette' is leaving people with disabilities waiting for hours, advocate says

  06-06-2023 04:26 via abc.net.au
  
  A disability advocate's call for all Adelaide taxis to be made fully accessible is being considered by the SA government — but it says a solution will not be in next week's state budget.
  
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• Pilot of plane that flew over Washington DC and crashed appeared slumped over, officials say

  06-06-2023 03:37 via abc.net.au
  
  US investigators trudge through rugged terrain to reach the site where a private plane slammed into a mountain, killing four people, after earlier flying over the nation's capital, prompting officials to scramble fighter jets. 
  
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• NT government to permit additional pokies in Alice Springs while lowering territory cap

  06-06-2023 02:20 via abc.net.au
  
  The Northern Territory has lowered its cap on pokies to 1,659, but applications for 20 additional gaming machines at two of Iris Capital's Alice Springs venues "remain in train".
  
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• Updated China-Australia trade list welcomed by citrus industry

  06-06-2023 00:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's citrus industry welcomes an administrative milestone, the publication of a new list of orchards, packhouses and treatment facilities allowed to export to China.
  
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• Growers to benefit from updated China-Australia citrus and stone fruit trade list

  06-06-2023 00:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's citrus industry welcomes an administrative milestone, the publication of a new list of orchards, packhouses and treatment facilities allowed to export to China.
  
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• 'Strangest debate': Burke says business launched campaign against laws government is not proposing

  06-06-2023 00:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Mining, construction and farming and other business groups have mounted a campaign over changes the Employment Minister Tony Burke says the government is not proposing to make.
  
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• We fact checked Angus Taylor on Australia's core inflation compared to the G7. Here's what we found

  06-06-2023 00:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor says Australia has higher core inflation than all of the countries in the G7. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
  
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• Fact check: Is Australia's core inflation higher than all countries in the G7?

  06-06-2023 00:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor says Australia has higher core inflation than all of the countries in the G7. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
  
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