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• Hundreds of dollars on offer in rebates for Queenslanders buying e-scooters and e-bikes

  20-09-2024 23:47 via abc.net.au
  
  Queenslanders will be able to access a rebate of $500 for e-bicycles and $200 for e-scooters under the state government scheme launched ahead of next month's election. 
  
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• In an unpredictable live music industry, queer venues are fighting to keep their doors open

  20-09-2024 23:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Venue managers say the cost of operating is making it harder for small, diverse businesses to exist in Brisbane, putting the safe space they provide to vulnerable communities at risk. 
  
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• In a unpredictable live music industry, queer venues are fighting to keep their doors open

  20-09-2024 23:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Venue managers say the cost of operating is making it harder for small, diverse businesses to exist in Brisbane, putting the safe space they provide to vulnerable communities at risk. 
  
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• Sri Lanka's 'social contract is in pieces'. How will they vote in the presidential election?

  20-09-2024 21:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Two years since thousands of protesters swarmed the presidential palace in Sri Lanka, voters are heading to the polls, where three presidential candidates have emerged as frontrunners for the first time.
  
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• After Nixon's protests, the Sri Lankan president fled. Who will he vote for at tomorrow's election?

  20-09-2024 21:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Two years since thousands of protesters swarmed the presidential palace in Sri Lanka, voters are heading to the polls, where three presidential candidates have emerged as frontrunners for the first time.
  
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• The world reaches a historic tipping point thanks to 'the most rapid change since the Industrial Revolution'

  20-09-2024 21:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Renewable technologies are gathering speed, putting the world within reach of falling greenhouse gas emissions. Climate experts say they "struggle to wrap their heads around" the sheer size, scale and speed of the current transition.
  
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• The world is on the cusp of pushing emissions into decline. The driving force? Simple economics

  20-09-2024 21:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Renewable technologies are gathering speed, putting the world within reach of falling greenhouse gas emissions. Climate experts say they "struggle to wrap their heads around" the sheer size, scale and speed of the current transition.
  
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• There was a 'staggeringly quick' rise in sugar prices this week. Here's why

  20-09-2024 09:23 via abc.net.au
  
  The world sugar price surged by about 15 per cent this week, which was easily the industry's sharpest rally of the year.
  
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• Sydney's weekend of free train travel to cost taxpayers up to $3.5m

  20-09-2024 08:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Government pay negotiations with the Rail, Tram and Bus Union broke down earlier this week and the union threatened to disrupt services on one of the busiest weekends of the year.
  
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• Mining and Energy Union and officials fined more than half a million dollars for 'intimidating and threatening' conduct

  20-09-2024 05:00 via abc.net.au
  
  The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured a total of $657,105 in penalties in court against the Mining and Energy Union and five then union officials over conduct including verbal abuse of workers at the Oaky Creek North coal mine in central Queensland.
  
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• Telstra registers uptick in calls to helplines from public phones since service became free

  20-09-2024 04:17 via abc.net.au
  
  The telco says emergency calls from public phones have risen by about 20 per cent, and the anonymity they provide for people experiencing mental health crises and domestic violence could be a driving factor.
  
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• In a void of detail, two reports attempt to spell the challenge for Peter Dutton to go nuclear

  20-09-2024 04:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Two reports that suggest nuclear power would push up power bills by hundreds of dollars and leave as much as half of Australia's energy demands unmet are being used by the government to tighten the screws on the Coalition over its nuclear proposal.
  
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• Why fishers, farmers and miners should care about the price of houses in China

  20-09-2024 02:50 via abc.net.au
  
  With the Chinese economy slowing and authorities cracking down on "gratuitous" spending, Australia's export industries are being exposed and impacted in different ways.
  
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• How a push to end 'gratuitous' spending in China could make Australian exporters nervous

  20-09-2024 02:50 via abc.net.au
  
  With the Chinese economy slowing and authorities cracking down on "gratuitous" spending, Australia's export industries are being exposed and impacted in different ways.
  
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• Farmer walks away from his dream location as major renewables project looms over town

  20-09-2024 01:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Jock Hansen has dedicated the last decade of his life to growing fruit in north Queensland, but he has sold his land due to fears about the "industrialisation" of the area.
  
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• Sewage from burst pipe under Brisbane River contained, kilometre-long temporary fix to funnel waste

  20-09-2024 00:26 via abc.net.au
  
  A pipe which carries about 150,000 people's waste has burst about 60 metres beneath the Brisbane River, but Urban Utilities says all untreated effluent was contained in an underground tunnel and did not leak.
  
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