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• A record shop with a twist: You'll only find female artists here

  28-02-2025 22:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Lauren was on a mission to listen to more music by women, and so a new record store was born — one where her three daughters could also work.
  
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• Star's financial woes cast doubt over future of its casinos

  28-02-2025 22:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Ensuring Brisbane's casino doesn't become an "eyesore without tenancies" should be a priority as further doubt is cast over the future of Star Entertainment, a business expert says. 
  
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• Brisbane casino at risk of becoming an 'eyesore' as Star flounders

  28-02-2025 22:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Ensuring Brisbane's casino doesn't become an "eyesore without tenancies" should be a priority as further doubt is cast over the future of Star Entertainment, a business expert says. 
  
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• 'The colour is coming': Fifty years of colour television in Australia

  28-02-2025 22:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Fifty years ago the first Australian television program was broadcast in colour, about 10 years after it had arrived in most countries around the world.
  
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• Australia first saw colour television 10 years late, but it arrived with a big bang

  28-02-2025 22:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Fifty years ago the first Australian television program was broadcast in colour, about 10 years after it had arrived in most countries around the world.
  
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• How Isla found her people in the mosh pit of a hardcore gig

  28-02-2025 21:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Isla Fae Cato thought coming out as transgender would mean abandoning her love of hardcore punk and mosh pits, but she was instead embraced by a community working hard to become more diverse and accepting.
  
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• Hardcore music scene mosh pits create safe space for women, queer fans

  28-02-2025 21:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Isla Fae Cato thought coming out as transgender would mean abandoning her love of hardcore music and mosh pits, but she was instead embraced by a community working hard to become more diverse and accepting.
  
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• Qatar Airways rejects child's disability harness 24 hours before flight

  28-02-2025 20:59 via abc.net.au
  
  A Melbourne family's distress during a recent travel experience has highlighted different airline approaches to disability seating on flights.
  
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• Family's flight ordeal puts airline disability rules in focus

  28-02-2025 20:59 via abc.net.au
  
  A Melbourne family's distress during a recent travel experience has highlighted different airline approaches to disability seating on flights.
  
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• Fears $1.5 billion transmission line cost blowout will increase bills

  28-02-2025 20:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Cost estimates for Australia's largest energy transmission project have blown out by almost 75 per cent, sparking fears of higher power bills. 
  
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• Labor to knock less than a cent off a mid-strength pint by freezing draught beer tax

  28-02-2025 12:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The government will pause the biannual indexation of the draught beer excise for two years, a modest change that has been welcomed by the hotel industry. 
  
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• Labor freezes indexation on draught beer excise

  28-02-2025 12:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The government will pause the biannual indexation of the draught beer excise for two years, a modest change that has been welcomed by the hotel industry. 
  
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• Allianz fined $13.5m for misleading consumers on travel insurance

  28-02-2025 11:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's corporate regulator wins a case it brought against Allianz and AWP Australia for misrepresenting the level of coverage they were able to offer to consumers.
  
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• Allianz fined $13.5 million for misleading consumers on travel insurance

  28-02-2025 11:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's corporate regulator wins a case it brought against Allianz and AWP Australia for misrepresenting the level of coverage they were able to offer to consumers.
  
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• 'Now less protective': Territory coordinator bill under fresh scrutiny

  28-02-2025 11:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Changes to the NT's controversial territory coordinator bill that would modify heritage laws and create new powers to enter private property, in a bid to fast-track economic development, have come under fresh scrutiny.
  
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• WA Labor accused of 'grubby deal' that could lead to fish extinction

  28-02-2025 09:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Peak fishing bodies are at odds with Labor's stance on mandatory catch reporting, which some say is an irresponsible bid to secure votes from recreational anglers.
   
  
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• Wine grape growers demand safeguards for industry in 'crisis'

  28-02-2025 08:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Farmers in Australia's largest wine grape regions are calling on the federal government to implement a mandatory code of conduct immediately to stop a mass exodus of growers.
  
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• Lattouf says court case exposed 'rot and systemic racism at the ABC'

  28-02-2025 07:24 via abc.net.au
  
  Journalist Antoinette Lattouf says the "rot and the systemic racism at the ABC" has been exposed in her unlawful termination case against the national broadcaster as proceedings close.
  
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• Gold mine expansion given federal approval

  28-02-2025 07:00 via abc.net.au
  
  The federal government has approved the expansion of a mine in the New South Wales Central West that is expected to produce 1.6 million ounces of gold.
  
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• Victorian police officers back pay deal, ending industrial dispute

  28-02-2025 06:20 via abc.net.au
  
  A bitter police pay dispute in Victoria is set to come to an end, with officers and staff agreeing to a 20 per cent pay rise over four years.
  
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• Conservative news operator takes over 7 Tasmania, other television assets

  28-02-2025 05:52 via abc.net.au
  
  The company which has launched an Australian version of the US right-wing streaming channel Newsmax says its latest acquisition, which includes a raft of TV stations, will be run separately to that operation.
  
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• Expect egg shortage, high prices to last years, farmers tell shoppers

  28-02-2025 02:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Egg farmers and market analysts warn increased consumer demand and ongoing avian influenza issues are to blame for current egg shortages, which could continue for at least another three years.
  
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• Egg prices likely to remain high as shortage tipped to last for years

  28-02-2025 02:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Egg farmers and market analysts warn increased consumer demand and ongoing avian influenza issues are to blame for the current egg shortages, which could continue for at least another three years.
  
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• 'Bluey' fishing ban extended despite species listed as stable

  28-02-2025 02:12 via abc.net.au
  
  The ban on the eastern blue groper has been widely criticised for failing to address climate-related pressures, with the fisheries watchdog admitting 'limited numbers' were being harvested by anglers even before it was made illegal. 
  
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• Do you live in a high-risk area? Tell us how you've managed home insurance payments

  28-02-2025 02:09 via abc.net.au
  
  Calling all home owners in flood and bushfire-prone areas. We want to know how you're dealing with insurance payments.
  
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• Temu wants to 'serve the world' but it can't sell to 280 million Indonesians

  28-02-2025 01:02 via abc.net.au
  
  It had a meteoric rise to become the most downloaded shopping app worldwide in 2024, but Temu's expansion plans hit roadblocks in some South-East Asian countries.
  
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• FBI says North Korea stole $US1.5b in cryptocurrency

  28-02-2025 00:38 via abc.net.au
  
  A $US1.5 billion heist on leading cryptocurrency exchange Bybit is the work of North Korean state-sponsored hackers, according to the FBI.
  
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• Star Entertainment enters trading halt after failing to post financial results

  28-02-2025 00:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Struggling casino giant Star Entertainment has entered a trading halt minutes before the Australian share market opened on Friday after failing to post its half-year financial results.  
  
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• Shares in struggling casino giant Star plummet after trading halt lifts

  28-02-2025 00:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Shares in struggling casino giant Star Entertainment have plummeted after a brief trading halt was lifted, as the company searches for a financial lifeline by the end of the day.
  
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• Breaking: Star Entertainment enters trading halt after failing to post financial results

  28-02-2025 00:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Struggling casino giant Star Entertainment has entered a trading halt minutes before the Australian share market opened on Friday after failing to post its half-year financial results.  
  
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