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• Weekly rent hits $1,100 in WA city where population predicted to boom

  17-12-2024 23:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Energy projects in WA's Pilbara are predicted to drive population up 35 per cent by 2030, triggering concerns about spiralling housing costs and worsening service availability.
  
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• Swelling WA city braces for housing shortage as energy projects loom

  17-12-2024 23:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Energy projects in WA's Pilbara are predicted to drive population up 35 per cent by 2030, triggering concerns about spiralling housing costs and worsening service availability.
  
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• Bluey movie to hit cinema screens in 2027

  17-12-2024 22:04 via abc.net.au
  
  The Queensland series has become one of the most watched television shows around the world.
  
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• Government steps in to save iconic outback event

  17-12-2024 21:55 via abc.net.au
  
  With D-day looming, the Mount Isa Rodeo has been granted a lifeline, but it may not be enough.
   
  
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• Christmas gift might save the largest rodeo in southern hemisphere

  17-12-2024 21:55 via abc.net.au
  
  With D-day looming, the Mount Isa Rodeo has been granted a lifeline, but it may not be enough.
   
  
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• Live: Record profits for Australians selling property, ASX to fall

  17-12-2024 21:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians reselling their properties made record profits in the September quarter, according to CoreLogic.A fall on Wall Street is likely to send Australian stocks lower. Follow the latest updates in our live blog.
  
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• Live: Record profits for Australians selling property, ASX rises

  17-12-2024 21:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians reselling their properties made record profits in the September quarter, according to CoreLogic. Australian stocks have opened higher. Follow the latest updates in our live blog.
  
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• Live: Record profits for Australians selling property, ASX higher

  17-12-2024 21:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians reselling their properties made record profits in the September quarter, according to CoreLogic. Australian stocks are rising. Follow the latest updates in our live blog.
  
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• Live: Record profits for Australians selling property, ASX flat

  17-12-2024 21:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians reselling their properties made record profits in the September quarter, according to CoreLogic. Australian stocks have opened flat. Follow the latest updates in our live blog.
  
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• Live: Crypto firm Binance Australia sued by ASIC, ASX seesaws

  17-12-2024 21:45 via abc.net.au
  
  The corporate regulator is suing crypto firm Binance Australia Derivatives for alleged consumer protection failures. Australian stocks are swinging between gains and losses. Follow the latest updates in our live blog.
  
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• Live: ASX set to track Wall Street lower as US Fed interest rates decision looms

  17-12-2024 21:45 via abc.net.au
  
  A fall on Wall Street is likely to send Australian stocks lower, as investors turned cautious ahead of the US Federal Reserve's last policy announcement of the year. Follow the latest updates in our live blog.
  
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• Crypto firm Binance Australia sued by ASIC, ASX slips — as it happened

  17-12-2024 21:45 via abc.net.au
  
  The corporate regulator is suing crypto firm Binance Australia Derivatives for alleged consumer protection failures. Australian stocks swung between gains and losses but finished in the red.
  
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• Truckies fed up with 'major' safety issue get creative to highlight danger

  17-12-2024 21:05 via abc.net.au
  
  The Crap Loading Ramps of Australia Facebook page attracts lots of attention online, but the founder says its tongue-in-cheek posts highlight a serious issue in the livestock industry.
  
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• Fossil fuels are being 'eaten alive' by the solar rush

  17-12-2024 19:42 via abc.net.au
  
  Satellite imagery reveals the staggering rise of solar farms around the world in recent years. Can Australia get on board?
  
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• A planet-wide solar boom is beating expectations at every turn

  17-12-2024 19:42 via abc.net.au
  
  Satellite imagery reveals the staggering rise of solar farms around the world in recent years. Can Australia get on board?
  
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• Budget 'sunshine' turns cloudy as deficits return, mid-year update to show

  17-12-2024 19:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Treasurer Jim Chalmers will deliver the mid-year update this morning.
  
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• Faster and stealthier: Japan's pitch to clinch $10bn Australian warship prize

  17-12-2024 09:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Japanese officials claim their Mogami frigate is faster, stealthier and better suited to operate alongside the United States than a rival warship offering from Germany.
  
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• Qantas agrees to $120m in compensation for illegally sacked workers

  17-12-2024 08:42 via abc.net.au
  
  Qantas and the Transport Workers Union have agreed to set up a compensation fund for payments to be sent to 1,820 impacted former employees who were outsourced by the airline.
  
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• Mobil says it regrets misleading customers as ACCC launches legal action

  17-12-2024 05:52 via abc.net.au
  
  The consumer watchdog alleges fuel sold at several service stations in Queensland did not contain additives which the company claimed would protect customers' engines.
  
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• One million Australians are negatively gearing, new tax figures show

  17-12-2024 05:27 via abc.net.au
  
  New Treasury figures show the top tenth of earners are hauling in tens of billions of dollars from tax concessions and loopholes.
  
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• Fatigue, spider bites contributed to BHP train crash in WA's north

  17-12-2024 04:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Poor sleep, increased stress and spider bites contributed to a train crash on a BHP iron ore site at Port Hedland earlier this year, a national transport safety watchdog report has found.
  
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• 'Blood, sweat and tears' fuelling Amazon's speed 'obsession', says new report

  17-12-2024 02:48 via abc.net.au
  
  A US Senate investigation finds "shockingly" high levels of debilitating injuries and safety conditions made impossible to follow.
  
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• More than 90,000 bins at risk of being uncollected before Christmas over pay

  17-12-2024 02:02 via abc.net.au
  
  One south-east Queensland council is in a pay dispute with unions, which could see tens of thousands of bins left uncollected until next year. 
  
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• Dutton to revive Morrison's 'gas-fired recovery' in election pledge to cut energy bills

  17-12-2024 01:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Details of the coming promise to voters, which follows months of consultation with the gas industry, are being calibrated to counter Labor's likely strategy of ongoing direct-to-households energy bill relief.
  
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