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• A major aged care facility underpaid its staff, but this former worker will get nothing

  30-09-2024 23:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Madeline* expected to receive thousands of dollars in backpay after discovering she had been underpaid by her employer, Aegis, but under Australian employment law she is not entitled to anything.
  
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• Virgin Australia hopes to expand international flight offerings after Qatar Airways agrees to buy 25pc stake

  30-09-2024 23:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Qatar Airways will buy a 25 per cent stake in Virgin Australia after an agreement was reached between the Australian airline's owner, Bain Capital, and the Gulf carrier.
  
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• Qatar Airways will buy a 25 per cent stake in Virgin Australia

  30-09-2024 23:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Qatar Airways will buy a 25 per cent stake in Virgin Australia after an agreement was reached between the Australian airline's owner, Bain Capital, and the Gulf carrier.
  
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• Why Australia is so far behind other nations in EV sales, and how utes are part of the problem

  30-09-2024 23:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Some manufacturers said we'd be in self-driving cars by now and that hasn't quite played out. So where do driverless, hydrogen and electric vehicles fit in Australia's driving future.
  
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• In a decade, petrol cars will be banned in some parts of Australia. So what will we be driving?

  30-09-2024 23:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Some manufacturers said we'd be in self-driving cars by now and that hasn't quite played out. So where do driverless, hydrogen and electric vehicles fit in Australia's driving future.
  
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• Australia's most generous housing grant scheme opens in the NT today. Here's what's on offer

  30-09-2024 22:33 via abc.net.au
  
  The NT government's new housing incentive program includes three different grants ranging from $10,000 to $50,000, encompassing both first home buyers and existing home owners.
  
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• Australia's most generous housing grant scheme has opened in the NT. Here's what's on offer

  30-09-2024 22:33 via abc.net.au
  
  The NT government's new housing incentive program includes three different grants ranging from $10,000 to $50,000, encompassing both first home buyers and existing home owners.
  
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• Townsville house prices growing faster than all Australian capital cities

  30-09-2024 21:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Once known for its affordable housing, the garrison city of Townsville is seeing property prices soar, as buyers report hot competition.
   
  
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• Electricity industry at war with itself as retailers unload on 'perverse, impossible' tariffs

  30-09-2024 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  A simmering row between electricity retailers and poles-and-wires companies boils over amid claims consumers are being hurt by "perverse" complex prices.
  
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• US authorities investigating whether budget airline Bonza was funded with money meant for football teams

  30-09-2024 20:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Investigators are examining why some money destined for a private investment firm's football teams instead went to Bonza. The airline collapsed barely a year after it launched.
  
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• US authorities investigating if Bonza's investors broke money laundering laws

  30-09-2024 20:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Investigators are examining why some money destined for a private investment firm's football teams instead went to Bonza. The airline collapsed barely a year after it launched.
  
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• Money-laundering investigation examining the funding of failed airline Bonza

  30-09-2024 20:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Investigators are examining why some money destined for a private investment firm's football teams instead went to Bonza. The airline collapsed barely a year after it launched.
  
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• No puppies, no long-term visitors, mandatory medical examinations: Retirement village contracts exposed

  30-09-2024 20:36 via abc.net.au
  
  No puppies, mandatory medical examinations and hard-to-understand financial consequences. Welcome to life inside some of Australia's retirement villages.
  
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• With 'borrowing capacity still pretty constrained', house price rises continue but at a slower pace

  30-09-2024 16:03 via abc.net.au
  
  National home prices rose in September, new data shows, but some of the heat continues to come out of the housing market as more owner-occupiers and investors consider selling.
  
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• With 'borrowing capacity still pretty constrained', Australia's house price rises are slowing

  30-09-2024 16:03 via abc.net.au
  
  National home prices rose in September, new data shows, but some of the heat continues to come out of the housing market as more owner-occupiers and investors consider selling.
  
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• Coles and Woolworths's alleged land hoarding comes under the microscope, as treasurers seek zoning law changes

  30-09-2024 14:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Federal and state treasurers will meet to change planning and zoning laws to end alleged "land banking" by the supermarket giants, where property is purchased and sat on to prevent competitors from entering.
  
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• Coles' and Woolworths' alleged land hoarding comes under the microscope, as treasurers seek zoning law changes

  30-09-2024 14:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Federal and state treasurers will meet to change planning and zoning laws to end alleged "land banking" by the supermarket giants, where property is purchased and sat on to prevent competitors from entering.
  
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• Nurses' union agree to 3 per cent 'good faith' wage increase to halt industrial action during NSW Health negotiations

  30-09-2024 09:54 via abc.net.au
  
  NSW Health will begin paying an interim 3 per cent wage increase to nurses and midwives from next year, with the union accepting the recommendations from the Industrial Relations Commission.
  
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• Nurses, midwives to receive 3pc backdated pay rise after union accepts government recommendation

  30-09-2024 09:54 via abc.net.au
  
  NSW Health will begin paying an interim 3 per cent wage increase to nurses and midwives from next year, with the union accepting the recommendations from the Industrial Relations Commission.
  
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• UK becomes first G7 nation to end coal power with last plant closure

  30-09-2024 04:00 via abc.net.au
  
  The last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom officially closes down today, book-ending the nearly-150-year history of British coal power.
  
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• 'End of an era' as UK's last coal-fired power plant closes

  30-09-2024 04:00 via abc.net.au
  
  The last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom officially closes down today, book-ending the nearly-150-year history of British coal power.
  
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• The pioneering program breaking the 'taboo' of female athlete menstruation

  30-09-2024 03:42 via abc.net.au
  
  They're already scoring goals on the field, but now these high-performance footballers are levelling up with a female-focused health training program.
  
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• Breaking taboos: Addressing periods and sports bra science in female athlete training

  30-09-2024 03:42 via abc.net.au
  
  They're already scoring goals on the field, but now these high-performance footballers are levelling up with a female-focused health training program.
  
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• After decades of sports science for '70kg white males', elite athlete training gets serious about women's health

  30-09-2024 03:42 via abc.net.au
  
  They're already scoring goals on the field, but now these high-performance footballers are levelling up with a female-focused health training program.
  
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• Nine train stations close as development of the Sydney Metro extension begins

  30-09-2024 03:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Tens of thousands of commuters will have their journeys disrupted as the T3 Bankstown Line between Sydenham and Bankstown was shut down on Monday morning. Nine train stations along the T3 line will be closed for at least the next 12 months to allow for the completion of the new metro.
  
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• 'Do a few simple tests' and you can be a truck driver in WA. These people want change

  30-09-2024 00:00 via abc.net.au
  
  With all road users in WA under scrutiny, veteran truck driver Michael King says more comprehensive training is needed.
  
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