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• 'The writing's on the wall': Australia's largest mortgage lender sets the tone after ditching climate culprits

  16-08-2024 21:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's biggest bank is blacklisting fossil fuel companies that can't show genuine efforts to reduce emissions, putting pressure on other finance institutions to follow suit.
  
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• NSW silver mine project approval overturned, deemed 'void'

  16-08-2024 09:56 via abc.net.au
  
  A community group fighting against the Bowdens silver mine project near Mudgee has won in the NSW Court of Appeal. The mine's approval has been deemed "void" and its future is now in doubt.
  
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• Can your boss stop you from resigning if you want to quit your job?

  16-08-2024 09:31 via abc.net.au
  
  You are working long hours, being repeatedly rostered to work weekends and are increasingly anxious and unhappy in your job. You decide to quit, but your boss won't let you. But can an employer actually reject a resignation?
  
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• 'Fun is not silent': Live entertainment noise limits in city relaxed significantly

  16-08-2024 08:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Changes to noise restrictions which will allow sounds of up to 75 decibels until 1am over the weekend in the city have been wholeheartedly embraced by the live music sector in Canberra.
  
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• Liquidator alleges insolvent trading, bank payments to director of tiny home company that took Aussies for millions

  16-08-2024 08:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The liquidator of a tiny home business believes the company may have been trading insolvent for almost one year, saying the director had "no real prospect" of supplying the product he sold.
  
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• 'Foolish' business model led to collapse of tiny homes company that owes Australians millions, liquidator says

  16-08-2024 08:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The liquidator of a tiny home business believes the company may have been trading insolvent for almost one year, saying the director had "no real prospect" of supplying the product he sold.
  
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• Alleged gold thieves walk free, awarded more than $22K in costs as forensics bungle sees trial abandoned

  16-08-2024 08:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Two alleged West Australian gold thieves have walked free with all charges against them dismissed, following a police forensics bungle which a defence lawyer argued would have "undermined public confidence in the justice system".
  
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• Australia's national reef education centre thrown $100 million lifeline by 'annoyed' council

  16-08-2024 05:40 via abc.net.au
  
  The country's largest living coral aquarium and national centre of reef education has been thrown a lifeline with the reallocation of $100 million in federal funding.
  
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• Offshore wind needs a future workforce. Will coal workers make the move out to sea?

  16-08-2024 03:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Coal-fired power plants are retiring in Victoria, and workers are considering their options. But as the offshore wind industry is developing in Gippsland, some coal workers are showing an interest in retraining in renewables.
  
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• Alannah's home was destroyed, but her water company refused to stop charging her

  16-08-2024 01:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Alannah Lewis-Stafford hasn't lived in her wreckage of a home for two years, but her water company has continued to send her bills.
  
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• International travel has rebounded to pre-COVID levels. Here are the most popular destinations

  16-08-2024 00:53 via abc.net.au
  
  Trips to Indonesia are outpacing trips to New Zealand "four to one" according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. 
  
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