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• Got a sweet-tooth craving? The sugar in your biscuits and cakes has a sordid history

  05-09-2024 23:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Sugar is a relatively new addition to our diet. Like many of the world's resources, the discovery and widespread uptake of sugar led to the exploitation of millions of people.
  
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• This year's ski season ended far earlier than usual, prompting soul-searching among operators

  05-09-2024 22:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Tourism operators and the broader Snowy Mountains region are looking to summer tourism options as they face the prospect of warmer winters and shorter ski seasons.
  
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• Why farms in Australia's most valuable dairy region are being sold to foreign timber companies

  05-09-2024 22:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Residents say a "corrosive" trend to sell fertile farmland to make way for foreign-owned wood plantations is ruining communities and threatening Australia's food security. 
  
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• Victorian dairy community warns national food security at risk as foreign timber giants snap up farms

  05-09-2024 22:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Residents say a "corrosive" trend to sell fertile farmland to make way for foreign-owned wood plantations is ruining communities and threatening Australia's food security. 
  
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• 'Not enough anymore': Workers turn to food charity as Australians go without bare essentials

  05-09-2024 22:21 via abc.net.au
  
  As Australian households struggle with cost of living, charities are feeling the pressure — with food relief services in particular saying demand has never been greater.
  
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• Food spending is being crunched by the cost of living, and households are at the coalface

  05-09-2024 22:21 via abc.net.au
  
  As Australian households struggle with cost of living, charities are feeling the pressure — with food relief services in particular saying demand has never been greater.
  
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• When it comes to same-sex or co-ed schooling, there's not necessarily 'a right answer'

  05-09-2024 21:35 via abc.net.au
  
  When it comes to deciding between single-sex and co-education, it's a debate that invokes deeply held beliefs about which type is "better".
  
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• Principals weigh in over whether single-sex or co-educational schools are 'better'

  05-09-2024 21:35 via abc.net.au
  
  When it comes to deciding between single-sex and co-education, it's a debate that invokes deeply held beliefs about which type is "better".
  
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• Thanks to Oasis, dynamic pricing has come under fresh scrutiny in the UK. Live Nation says Australia is next

  05-09-2024 20:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Uber, Qantas, Virgin and more all use price surging to help their ticket prices match demand. It's a completely legal practice, and Live Nation says it plans to roll it out for concert tickets here in Australia.
  
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• It's a legal practice that leaves customers feeling ripped off, and it's coming to Australia

  05-09-2024 20:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Uber, Qantas, Virgin and more all use price surging to help their ticket prices match demand. It's a completely legal practice, and Live Nation says it plans to roll it out for concert tickets here in Australia.
  
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• China to build first-ever thorium molten salt nuclear power station in Gobi Desert

  05-09-2024 20:55 via abc.net.au
  
  China plans to build the world's first-ever nuclear power station using molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant, and thorium as the fuel — revealed in a since-deleted report posted on the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics website.
  
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• 'Threatened, harassed': Aboriginal elders break silence on Regis mine protection order

  05-09-2024 10:26 via abc.net.au
  
  The Indigenous elders who were successful in their bid to protect a culturally important site from a proposed gold mine say they have been slandered.
  
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• Major union votes to split from ACTU over CFMEU handling, wants to set up rival grouping

  05-09-2024 09:57 via abc.net.au
  
  A union representing 100,000 workers has voted to split from the Australian Council of Trade Unions and set up a rival body, in an escalating response to the CFMEU being pushed into administration. 
  
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• Volvo ditches 2030 all-electric target amid slowing global demand for EVs

  05-09-2024 09:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Luxury automaker Volvo now aims for at least 90 per cent of its cars sold by 2030 to be electric or hybrid, instead of the initially anticipated 100 per cent.
  
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• Queensland may need to re-think power grid to accommodate all-EV 2036 goal, inquiry hears

  05-09-2024 08:21 via abc.net.au
  
  The state government sets an ambitious goal of electric vehicles making up 50 per cent of new car sales by 2030, and 100 per cent by 2036. 
  
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• Young fans say cost-of-living pressure is the biggest barrier to attending live music in Australia

  05-09-2024 08:16 via abc.net.au
  
  A survey has found attending live music is still important to young people but they are struggling to afford it against a rising cost of living.
  
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• First month of 50-cent fare trial sees public transport patronage surpass pre-COVID levels

  05-09-2024 07:10 via abc.net.au
  
  More than 15 million trips have been taken on public transport across south-east Queensland in the first month of the trial, bringing use of the system above pre-pandemic levels.
  
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• RBA governor warns some households may have to 'sell their homes' amid cost of living crisis

  05-09-2024 05:24 via abc.net.au
  
  RBA governor Michele Bullock says more people are seeking help from community organisations as the economy slows down, but the fight against inflation must be won.
  
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• More people are seeking help as Australia's economy slows down, RBA governor acknowledges

  05-09-2024 05:24 via abc.net.au
  
  RBA governor Michele Bullock says more people are seeking help from community organisations as the economy slows down, but the fight against inflation must be won.
  
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• Mango lovers get ready, Darwin is forecast to produce 2.4 million trays this season

  05-09-2024 02:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Mango season in the Northern Territory is starting to heat up, with 24,000 trays sent to markets last week and future yields looking good.
  
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