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• Worker accuses Apple of discrimination over jewellery supporting Gaza

  12-03-2025 21:59 via abc.net.au
  
  The former retail worker in Melbourne says the tech giant told him to stop wearing a pro-Palestinian necklace and bracelet because the jewellery made other employees and customers feel "unsafe" and "unwelcome".
  
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• Residents push for tougher penalties to stop illegal rubbish dumping

  12-03-2025 20:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Residents living along the housing growth corridor between Bacchus Marsh and Melbourne's western fringe say illegal rubbish dumping has become a problem of "epidemic proportions".
  
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• In Melbourne's west, rubbish dumping has hit 'epidemic proportions'

  12-03-2025 20:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Residents living along the housing growth corridor between Bacchus Marsh and Melbourne's western fringe say illegal rubbish dumping has become a problem of "epidemic proportions".
  
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• Power prices to rise nearly 9 per cent for some from mid-year

  12-03-2025 19:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Power prices are set to rise yet again, with the energy market regulator lifting the benchmarks for how much retailers can charge for electricity. 
  
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• Power prices are set to rise as regulator tipped to hike benchmarks

  12-03-2025 19:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Power prices are set to rise yet again, with the energy market regulator lifting the benchmarks for how much retailers can charge for electricity. 
  
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• Power bills to rise yet again as regulator tipped to hike price caps by up to 10pc

  12-03-2025 19:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Power prices are set to rise yet again, with the energy market regulator lifting the benchmarks for how much retailers can charge for electricity. 
  
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• More power bill pain as price caps set to rise by at least 5 per cent

  12-03-2025 19:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Power prices are set to rise yet again, with the energy market regulator lifting the benchmarks for how much retailers can charge for electricity. 
  
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• Sweden builds houses in days, Australia tried to do that 50 years ago

  12-03-2025 19:44 via abc.net.au
  
  Prefab housing has been touted as the answer to Australia's housing supply for years, but it's an industry plagued with high costs, low scale and a desperate need for investment if it's ever going to be a solution.
   
  
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• Albanese invokes 'Team Australia' in pitch to buy local after Trump tariffs

  12-03-2025 19:42 via abc.net.au
  
  The PM suggests Australians should by local goods instead of American ones ahead of a federal budget expected to have an "Australian-made" theme.
  
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• Canada announces more US tariffs as trade war with Trump deepens

  12-03-2025 16:56 via abc.net.au
  
  The Canadian government says the C$29.8 billion in tariffs will target steel and aluminium, as well as major US technology products.
  
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• Canada announces more reciprocal tariffs as trade war with US deepens

  12-03-2025 16:56 via abc.net.au
  
  The Canadian government says the C$29.8 billion in tariffs will target steel and aluminium, as well as major US technology products.
  
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• EU responds to Donald Trump's tariffs with duties on $45b of US goods

  12-03-2025 09:56 via abc.net.au
  
  The European Union is retaliating against US President Donald Trump with "countermeasures" on $45 billion of US goods after his administration increased tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports to 25 per cent.
  
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• Water storage tank bursts flooding Nhill streets and damaging homes, structures

  12-03-2025 09:47 via abc.net.au
  
  Almost 2 megalitres of water flooded streets in a small western Victorian town on Wednesday after the town's drinking water storage tank had a "catastrophic failure" according to the local water authority.
  
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• Leonardo DiCaprio takes aim at Australian government over mine expansion

  12-03-2025 07:48 via abc.net.au
  
  The Oscar-winning actor is not happy with the federal energy minister for signing off on a bauxite mine expansion that would see 3,855 hectares of native forest cleared.
  
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• Leonardo DiCaprio slams Australian government over mine expansion

  12-03-2025 07:48 via abc.net.au
  
  The Oscar-winning actor is not happy with the federal energy minister for signing off on a bauxite mine expansion that would see 3,855 hectares of native forest cleared.
  
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• 'Eyeball' Trump: Former ambassador's advice for Australia's next PM

  12-03-2025 06:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese may be under attack from the Coalition, but Arthur Sinodinos knows Donald Trump well and believes the PM has taken the right approach to US tariffs.  
  
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• What does a 'slow motion sell-down' mean for our superannuation?

  12-03-2025 04:14 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market is now close to what financial market participants call a "technical correction".
  
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• BlueScope, steelworkers disappointed as US denies Australia tariff exemption

  12-03-2025 02:14 via abc.net.au
  
  BlueScope Steel says it will work with the US government to ensure they understand the Australian company's significant investment in American steelmaking.
  
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• BlueScope disappointed as US denies Australia steel tariff exemption

  12-03-2025 02:14 via abc.net.au
  
  BlueScope Steel says it will work with the US government to ensure they understand the Australian company's significant investment in American steelmaking.
  
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• Australia's largest super fund sued over death benefit claim delays

  12-03-2025 01:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's largest superannuation fund, Australian Super, is being sued by the corporate regulator for "significant delays" in processing thousands of death benefit claims.
  
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