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• Live: US fights off recession fears as economy grows, local market opens lower as investors await retail sales data

  27-07-2023 23:49 via abc.net.au
  
  The US economy has grown at a faster rate than economists predicted, warding off concerns it may fall into a recession this year, while Australian investors await retail sales data ahead of next week's RBA meeting. Follow live.
  
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• Live: US economy fights off recession fears, local market set for weak start ahead of retail sales data

  27-07-2023 23:49 via abc.net.au
  
  The US economy has grown at a faster rate than economists predicted, warding off concerns it may fall into a recession this year, while Australian investors await retail sales data ahead of next week's RBA meeting. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Retail spending slides as cost-of-living pressures mount, US fights off recession fears, ASX lower

  27-07-2023 23:49 via abc.net.au
  
  The US economy has grown at a faster rate than economists predicted, warding off concerns it may fall into a recession this year, while Australian investors await retail sales data ahead of next week's RBA meeting. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Retail spending fall 'likely ensures' RBA will leave interest rates on hold, US fights off recession fears, ASX lower

  27-07-2023 23:49 via abc.net.au
  
  The US economy has grown at a faster rate than economists predicted, warding off concerns it may fall into a recession this year, while Australian investors await retail sales data ahead of next week's RBA meeting. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Chances of an RBA rate rise next week fall as retail sales dive, ASX slides

  27-07-2023 23:49 via abc.net.au
  
  The odds of the Reserve Bank increasing interest rates at its meeting next week have fallen off the back of weaker than expected retail sales figures, while the US economy grew by 2 per cent. Follow live.
  
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• Chances of a RBA rate rise next week fall as retail sales dive, ASX finishes lower — as it happened

  27-07-2023 23:49 via abc.net.au
  
  The odds of the Reserve Bank increasing interest rates at its meeting next week have fallen off the back of weaker than expected retail sales figures, while the US economy grew by 2 per cent.
  
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• Chances of a RBA rate rise next week fall as retail sales dive, ASX finishes lower

  27-07-2023 23:49 via abc.net.au
  
  The odds of the Reserve Bank increasing interest rates at its meeting next week have fallen off the back of weaker than expected retail sales figures, while the US economy grew by 2 per cent.
  
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• Victoria Cross could fetch more than $1 million as family offloads 'treasure'

  27-07-2023 22:14 via abc.net.au
  
  An auction house says the nieces of a man who was killed after destroying three Japanese machine gun posts in 1942 decided to sell his medal because there was a lot of responsibility in safeguarding it.
  
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• Queensland hairdresser's Victoria Cross sells for more than $1.4m as family offloads 'treasure'

  27-07-2023 22:14 via abc.net.au
  
  An auction house says the nieces of a man who was killed after destroying three Japanese machine gun posts in 1942 decided to sell his medal because there was a lot of responsibility in safeguarding it.
  
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• 'Succession is a real life drama': Are the patriarchal tides turning for farm daughters?

  27-07-2023 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  For a long time, the eldest son has been seen as the natural successor to a family farm. But there is change on the horizon.
  
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• 'It’s opened Dad’s eyes': Grace grew up thinking her brother would get the farm. Things have changed in her life time

  27-07-2023 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  For a long time, the eldest son has been seen as the natural successor to a family farm. But there is change on the horizon.
  
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• Answers wanted over cause of lead leaching into drinking water

  27-07-2023 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Documents show the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council raised concerns with the state government over critical infrastructure failures more than a year before lead was discovered in the community's tap water.
  
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• Presidents of Indonesia and China meet in Chengdu

  27-07-2023 21:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Indonesian President Joko Widodo meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in China's south-western city of Chengdu for talks about joint projects, including the development of Indonesia's capital.
  
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• Watchdog launches investigation into Australia's top home builder as more complaints emerge

  27-07-2023 21:08 via abc.net.au
  
  More than 60 complaints have been lodged with NSW Fair Trading since March, with Metricon listed on the regulator's complaints register for the last four consecutive months.
  
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• Investigation launched into Australia's top home builder Metricon, as more complaints emerge

  27-07-2023 21:08 via abc.net.au
  
  More than 60 complaints have been lodged with NSW Fair Trading since March, with Metricon listed on the regulator's complaints register for the last four consecutive months.
  
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• Delays in insurer claims handling and financial scams drive record rise in complaints to financial ombudsman

  27-07-2023 13:00 via abc.net.au
  
  The financial ombudsman has experienced a record rise in complaints as Australians voice their anger at scams, slow insurer claims handling, and buy-now-pay-later products.
  
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• Crackdown on 'dodgy' used car dealers selling from home, winding back odometers

  27-07-2023 09:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Second-hand car dealers operating from home under the guise of being a private seller are among the "dodgy" practises being targeted by South Australian consumer protection officials.
  
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• Victoria's environment watchdog drops charges against soft plastics recycler

  27-07-2023 09:53 via abc.net.au
  
  Victoria's environment watchdog has dropped allegations against a soft plastics recycling company, but says more serious charges could be coming.
  
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• This bridge connects Sarah with her community. But now it's broken, dividing the town

  27-07-2023 08:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Brig O'Johnstone Bridge closed to traffic a fortnight ago after an accident. The government says it will be another week before a repair plan and timeline can be finalised.
  
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• Small-time fruit growers facing 'death by paperwork' amid expensive fruit fly protocols

  27-07-2023 07:44 via abc.net.au
  
  Produce from small-time Riverland growers is disappearing from supermarket shelves as soaring treatment costs for the ongoing fruit fly outbreak risks allowing bigger businesses to muscle them out.
  
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• Expensive fruit fly protocols hit small-time growers, who face 'death by paperwork'

  27-07-2023 07:44 via abc.net.au
  
  Produce from small-time Riverland growers is disappearing from supermarket shelves as soaring treatment costs for the ongoing fruit fly outbreak risks allowing bigger businesses to muscle them out.
  
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• Steel rod fell through forklift windscreen at Brisbane construction site same day man fell 12m at Boggo Road site

  27-07-2023 07:43 via abc.net.au
  
  A heavy steel rod narrowly missed a worker at a Cross River Rail construction site in Brisbane on the same day a man fell 12 metres from another site run by the same contractor, the union claims. 
  
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• Why are power bills rising while wholesale electricity prices are falling? It's because of 'a horrible coincidence'

  27-07-2023 07:41 via abc.net.au
  
  New figures from the Australian Energy Market Operator show wholesale power prices have fallen by nearly 60 per cent in the past year, while households brace for an increase of at least 20 per cent to their power bill.
  
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• Wholesale power prices fell 59 per cent over the past year, so why did most power bills go up?

  27-07-2023 07:41 via abc.net.au
  
  New figures from the Australian Energy Market Operator show wholesale power prices have fallen by nearly 60 per cent in the past year, while households brace for an increase of at least 20 per cent to their power bill.
  
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• Residents shocked by 'railway through our back patio' as homes to be bulldozed for transport corridor

  27-07-2023 06:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Although it's been in planning for more than 20 years, a dozen families on the Sunshine Coast are reeling after the shock discovery that their homes will be acquired for a major new road and rail project, the Mooloolah River Interchange.
  
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• Popular holiday destinations are paying the price of climate change. Here's how tourists don't have to

  27-07-2023 05:00 via abc.net.au
  
  As temperatures rise and seas warm experts say there is a lot more to consider when planning your next overseas holiday.. 
  
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• Russia refuses to speak at UN meeting on Ukraine port attacks, calls meeting on religious freedom in Ukraine

  27-07-2023 03:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Russia refuses to speak at a UN Security Council meeting called to discuss Moscow's recent devastating attacks on the key Ukranian port of Odesa immediately following its exit from the Black Sea grain deal.
  
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• Road trains on renewables? Green hydrogen hub set to service heavy vehicles in WA

  27-07-2023 03:42 via abc.net.au
  
  A company building a green hydrogen plant near Perth says rubbish trucks, buses and big rigs in the state could be running on renewable energy in less than two years if the project proceeds as planned.
  
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• Nothing Compares 2 U: How the song of 1990 went from Prince to Sinéad and back again

  27-07-2023 03:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Despite being Sinéad O'Connor's most recognisable song, Nothing Compares 2 U originally came from the pen of Prince.
  
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• Tax Office privately settled with PwC before full scale of tax leak was known

  27-07-2023 03:21 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian Tax Office privately settled with PwC over its confidentiality breach in March, at a time when the consulting firm was still claiming the scandal was contained to a single former partner.
  
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• PwC reveals private settlement over undisclosed matter with Tax Office, as it contended with unfolding tax leak saga

  27-07-2023 03:21 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian Tax Office privately settled with PwC over an undisclosed matter in March, as the firm contended with a confidentiality breach within its ranks.
  
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• Maximum security prisoners 'completely invested' in state's biggest jail recycling scheme

  27-07-2023 02:04 via abc.net.au
  
  A Queensland prison that was sending 16,000 empty milk bottles to landfill each month has launched a recycling program so successful it has caught the eyes of other jail program managers.
  
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• How would another interest rate rise affect you? Tell us

  27-07-2023 01:37 via abc.net.au
  
  With interest rates high on its agenda, the Reserve Bank will reconvene on Tuesday, August 1. We want to know how a decision to hike rates again or keep them steady would affect you. 
  
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• Crew member dies as ship carrying nearly 3,000 cars catches fire off Dutch coast

  27-07-2023 01:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Owners of a cargo ship which caught fire off the coast of the Netherlands, killing one crew member, suspect an electric car may be the cause of the blaze.
  
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• Plans to revitalise NSW city's CBD turn into 'hot mess' as businesses go backwards

  27-07-2023 00:55 via abc.net.au
  
  The revamp of a street in Orange was designed to attract more people to the precinct. Instead, it has left a cafe owner taking a significant financial hit and fielding daily complaints.
  
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• Plans to revitalise NSW city centre turn into 'hot mess' as businesses go backwards

  27-07-2023 00:55 via abc.net.au
  
  The revamp of a street in Orange was designed to attract more people to the precinct. Instead, it has left a cafe owner taking a significant financial hit and fielding daily complaints.
  
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• South Korea to build fighting vehicles for Australian Army under $7 billion contract

  27-07-2023 00:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Military contractor Hanwha wins a bid to build infantry fighting vehicles for the Australian Army, beating out Germany's Rheinmetall.
  
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• South Korea to build fighting vehicles for Australian Army under $6 billion contract

  27-07-2023 00:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Military contractor Hanwha wins a bid to build infantry fighting vehicles for the Australian Army, beating out Germany's Rheinmetall.
  
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• South Korea to build fighting vehicles for Australian Army under $4 billion contract

  27-07-2023 00:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Military contractor Hanwha wins a bid to build infantry fighting vehicles for the Australian Army, beating out Germany's Rheinmetall.
  
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• Kevin Spacey was one of the biggest names hit by #MeToo. Here's why a London court cleared him

  27-07-2023 00:01 via abc.net.au
  
  The trial against Kevin Spacey was a strange mix of celebrity witnesses, tearful testimony and graphic allegations of sexual violence. WARNING: Some readers may find details in this story distressing. 
  
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• Celebrity name-dropping, tears and a grumpy Elton John: How Kevin Spacey's trial unfolded

  27-07-2023 00:01 via abc.net.au
  
  The trial against Kevin Spacey was a strange mix of celebrity witnesses, tearful testimony and graphic allegations of sexual violence. WARNING: Some readers may find details in this story distressing. 
  
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