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• Darwin Airport blames runway works for Air Asia deal falling over

  26-11-2024 22:40 via abc.net.au
  
  A deal which would have brought more international flights to the Northern Territory has fallen through, with Darwin Airport blaming its ongoing major runway works.
  
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• 'How are we surviving?’: Parents struggle to feed children, keep them in school amid cost-of-living crunch

  26-11-2024 22:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Researchers and frontline charities are seeing a growing number of Australian children going hungry and missing school, as the twin pressures of a cost-of-living crisis and housing shortages push families to the brink.
  
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• Aussie kids going hungry, missing school amid national cost-of-living crisis

  26-11-2024 22:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Researchers and frontline charities are seeing a growing number of Australian children going hungry and missing school, as the twin pressures of a cost-of-living crisis and housing shortages push families to the brink.
  
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• Business owners uncover dozens of times they were overcharged by Australia Post AI

  26-11-2024 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Owners of a Queensland business say they were overcharged dozens of times by an automated system, including being charged more than $700 for a single 300-gram parcel.
  
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• Business owners uncover dozens of times they were overcharged by Australia Post

  26-11-2024 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Owners of a Queensland business say they were overcharged dozens of times by an automated system, including being charged more than $700 for a single 300-gram parcel.
  
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• Business owners uncover 58 times they were overcharged by Australia Post AI

  26-11-2024 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Owners of a Queensland business say they were overcharged dozens of times by an automated system, including being charged more than $700 for a single 300-gram parcel.
  
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• Australia Post apologises to business owners repeatedly overcharged by automated parcel measuring system

  26-11-2024 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Owners of a Queensland business say they were overcharged on 58 occasions by an automated system, including being charged more than $700 for a single 300-gram parcel.
  
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• Struggling Australians being forced into poverty with 'nowhere affordable to live'

  26-11-2024 09:37 via abc.net.au
  
  More than 20 per cent of Australian renters are living in poverty after their rent has been paid, a new study has found. 
  
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• One in five Australian renters living below the poverty line, new study finds

  26-11-2024 09:37 via abc.net.au
  
  More than 20 per cent of Australian renters are living in poverty after their rent has been paid, a new study has found. 
  
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• 'Nowhere affordable to live': Study finds struggling Australians being forced into poverty

  26-11-2024 09:37 via abc.net.au
  
  More than 20 per cent of Australian renters are living in poverty after their rent has been paid, a new study has found. 
  
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• 'Food a discretionary item': For Australians most at risk in cost-of-living crisis, life is getting tougher

  26-11-2024 09:37 via abc.net.au
  
  More than 20 per cent of Australian renters are living in poverty after their rent has been paid, a new study has found. 
  
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• More than 150 dairy workers to be made redundant after Beston Global Food Company fails to find buyer

  26-11-2024 08:02 via abc.net.au
  
  The workers and 22 dairy farmers have been in limbo since the company went into voluntary administration, and 41 farmers owed more than $10 million for milk supplied pre-administration will not be paid.
  
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• 'Unprecedented theft': Senators say generative AI stole from creators, and must be forced to pay for their work

  26-11-2024 08:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Generative artificial intelligence tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT should be deemed "high-risk" under dedicated legislation that could enable the most dangerous technologies to be banned, a bipartisan committee recommends. It says AI companies have also committed "unprecedented theft" against creative workers and a fair compensation system should be developed.
  
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• Senators say generative AI represents 'unprecedented theft' and must be forced to pay creators for their work

  26-11-2024 08:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Generative artificial intelligence tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT should be deemed "high-risk" under dedicated legislation that could enable the most dangerous technologies to be banned, a bipartisan committee recommends. It says AI companies have also committed "unprecedented theft" against creative workers and a fair compensation system should be developed.
  
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• ChatGPT, Meta and Google generative AI should be designated 'high risk' under new laws, bipartisan committee recommends

  26-11-2024 08:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Generative artificial intelligence tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT should be deemed "high risk" under dedicated legislation that could enable the most dangerous technologies to be banned, a bipartisan committee recommends. It says AI companies have also committed "unprecedented theft" against creative workers and a fair compensation system should be developed.
  
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• Drake takes Kendrick Lamar rap beef into courtroom, alleging Spotify plays were inflated

  26-11-2024 07:15 via abc.net.au
  
   Drake launches legal action against Univeral Music Group, claiming the music giant had falsely pumped up the popularity of Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us.
  
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• Drake alleges Universal Music falsely inflated popularity of Kendrick Lamar diss track

  26-11-2024 07:15 via abc.net.au
  
   Drake launches legal action against Univeral Music Group, claiming the music giant had falsely pumped up the popularity of Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us.
  
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• 'Phenomenal' people power saves coastal green space and halls from council auction

  26-11-2024 06:39 via abc.net.au
  
  A regional Queensland council under financial pressure backtracks on its decision to sell community assets after backlash from local residents.
  
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• Chatime Australia fined by Federal Court after 'vulnerable workers' paid as little as $7.59 an hour to make bubble tea

  26-11-2024 05:28 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian franchise and director of the bubble tea retailer are fined a combined $132,000 after the Federal Circuit and Family Court found it had underpaid migrant workers through "ignorance and inattention". 
  
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• US shuts border to Mexican cattle after detection of pest that infests live animals

  26-11-2024 03:43 via abc.net.au
  
  An industry analyst says the ramifications for the global beef trade could be significant if the ban is prolonged.
  
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• Anger as SA government approves desalination plant before release of water security report

  26-11-2024 03:17 via abc.net.au
  
  The decision to go ahead with a $330-million desalination plant on the Eyre Peninsula has been met with backlash from long-term opponents of the plan.
  
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• Forrest-backed investor retracts default notice against rare earths miner, but the damage may have been done

  26-11-2024 00:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Efforts have been made to smooth tensions between junior miner Hastings Technology Metals and Andrew Forrest's Wyloo Metals over the financing of the Yangibana rare earths and niobium mine in WA.
  
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• Another $320m still needed to build rare earths mine in WA

  26-11-2024 00:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Efforts have been made to smooth tensions between junior miner Hastings Technology Metals and Andrew Forrest's Wyloo Metals over the financing of the Yangibana rare earths and niobium mine in WA.
  
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