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• Live: Survey reveals how much parents give their children for property

  16-01-2025 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Meanwhile, the ASX is set to open a little higher after mixed trade on Wall Street overnight. Follow the day's events and insights as they happen with our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: China's economy beats expectations, ASX turns negative

  16-01-2025 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  New data shows China's economy grew 5.4 per cent annually in the fourth quarter, beating market expectations. Meanwhile a survey by UBS reveals the reach of the "bank of mum and dad", with 40 per cent of respondents giving or receiving cash last year. Follow live.
  
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• Live: China's economy beats expectations, ASX flat

  16-01-2025 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  New data shows China's economy grew 5.4 per cent annually in the fourth quarter, beating market expectations. Meanwhile a survey by UBS reveals the reach of the "bank of mum and dad", with 40 per cent of respondents giving or receiving cash last year. Follow live.
  
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• China's economy beats expectations but ASX turns negative — as it happened

  16-01-2025 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  New data shows China's economy grew 5.4 per cent annually in the fourth quarter, beating market expectations. Meanwhile a survey by UBS reveals the reach of the "bank of mum and dad", with 40 per cent of respondents giving or receiving cash last year. This is how the day unfolded. 
  
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• Why parents shouldn't feel bad about asking teens to chip in more at home

  16-01-2025 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Asking young people to contribute more to the home isn't just teaching them about financial literacy, it can also be necessary to run a house. 
  
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• Outback Queenslanders plea for post office solution ahead of 'D-day' closure

  16-01-2025 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Residents in Queensland's remote Gulf of Carpentaria may have to make a six-hour round trip to collect their mail once Burketown's only post office closes in February.
  
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• Fears remote town will become 'even more isolated' once post office closes

  16-01-2025 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Residents in Queensland's remote Gulf of Carpentaria may have to make a six-hour round trip to collect their mail once Burketown's only post office closes in February.
  
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• 'It wouldn't pass the pub test': Behind the push to put mandatory lighting on trains

  16-01-2025 19:49 via abc.net.au
  
  More than 18,000 level crossings in Australia have little more than a stop sign to warn drivers to look out for freight trains hurtling towards them in the dark. A family-driven campaign is calling for a mandatory lighting solution, but the rail industry is fiercely resisting. 
  
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• 1 in 5 level crossings are 'passive', but there could be a simple safety fix

  16-01-2025 19:49 via abc.net.au
  
  More than 18,000 level crossings in Australia have little more than a stop sign to warn drivers to look out for freight trains hurtling towards them in the dark. A family-driven campaign is calling for a mandatory lighting solution, but the rail industry is fiercely resisting. 
  
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• Pub owner's plans turn to misery as insurers deny bushfire coverage

  16-01-2025 19:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Asip Memishi's family pleaded with him to leave as he prepared to defend his pub from bushfire in Victoria's Grampians. He knew if it burned, he wouldn't be able to rebuild.
  
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• Halls Gap bliss turns business misery as insurers deny bushfire coverage

  16-01-2025 19:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Asip Memishi's family pleaded with him to leave as he prepared to defend his pub from bushfire in Victoria's Grampians. He knew if it burned, he wouldn't be able to rebuild.
  
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• What the Fair Work Commission's decision means for Sydney's train network

  16-01-2025 19:26 via abc.net.au
  
  A ruling by the Fair Work Commission will see the industrial action delaying Sydney's train services temporarily paused. But is the end of the story?
  
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• Mixing lithium-ion battery chargers can be 'volatile', firefighters warn

  16-01-2025 07:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Firefighters are urging people not to mix and match their lithium-ion battery chargers due to the increasing risk of a fire or explosion. There are concerns the risk of battery fires will increase as devices using lithium-ion become more popular.
  
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• SA Energy Minister slams GFG over 350 iron mining job losses

  16-01-2025 06:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Energy and Mining Minister Tom Koutsantonis says iron mining job losses linked to GFG's Whyalla steelworks 'could have been avoided'.
  
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• NSW premier backs train fare refund for Sydney's train disruptions

  16-01-2025 03:32 via abc.net.au
  
  NSW Premier Chris Minns says the government is looking "very closely" at giving people their money back over disruptions to Sydney's train network.
  
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• NSW premier backs train fare refund as Sydney disruptions drag on

  16-01-2025 03:32 via abc.net.au
  
  NSW Premier Chris Minns says the government is looking "very closely" at giving people their money back but is focused on ending its industrial dispute with the rail union.
  
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• ASIC completes global CEO search

  16-01-2025 03:25
  ASIC completes global CEO searchKeith FordThu, 2025-01-16 13:25KeithFord View articles byKeith Keith's social profiles: E-mail Author
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• Drake sues his label for defamation over Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us'

  16-01-2025 02:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Drake is suing his label, Universal Music Group, for defamation over Kendrick Lamar's track 'Not Like Us', a move the record company calls "illogical".
  
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• Unemployment edges back to 4pc, despite 56,000 extra jobs

  16-01-2025 01:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's unemployment has risen to 4 per cent, but only because more people are looking for work.
  
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• More Australians in work than ever before might be bad news for borrowers

  16-01-2025 01:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Financial traders are still seeing about a 70 per cent chance that the Reserve Bank will cut interest rates in February, despite a 56,000-strong surge in jobs setting a number of employment records.
  
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• Jobs boom won't derail February rate cut, traders bet

  16-01-2025 01:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Financial traders are still seeing about a 70 per cent chance that the Reserve Bank will cut interest rates in February, despite a 56,000-strong surge in jobs setting a number of employment records.
  
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