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• Queensland coal lease rejected due to climate concerns

  26-03-2025 23:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Queensland's Land Court has recommended a mine lease extension be rejected unless the mine's operator can prove it will mitigate climate emissions. 
  
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• Land Court urges Ensham coal mine lease extension be rejected over climate concerns

  26-03-2025 23:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Queensland's Land Court has recommended a mine lease extension be rejected unless the mine's operator can prove it will mitigate climate emissions. 
  
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• Donald Trump announces new 25 per cent tariffs on imported vehicles

  26-03-2025 22:50 via abc.net.au
  
  The White House expects the tariffs will raise $US100 billion in revenue annually and foster more domestic manufacturing.
  
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• Breaking: Donald Trump announces new 25 per cent tariffs on imported vehicles

  26-03-2025 22:50 via abc.net.au
  
  The White House expects the tariffs will raise $US100 billion in revenue annually and foster more domestic manufacturing.
  
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• Live: Global stocks fall on fears of Trump auto tariffs

  26-03-2025 21:31 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market is poised to fall, after Wall Street and European stocks were hit by the looming threat of tariffs on US car imports. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: ASX and global stocks fall as more US tariffs shake sentiment

  26-03-2025 21:31 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market is down in early trade after Wall Street and European stocks were hit by the looming threat of tariffs on US car imports. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.
  
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• ASX snaps five-day winning streak as more US tariffs shake sentiment — as it happened

  26-03-2025 21:31 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market has ended its five-day winning streak after the looming threat of tariffs on US car imports weighed down investor sentiment.
  
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• 'While renting, we're investing': Planning for future as 'forever renter'

  26-03-2025 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  More Australian renters believe they may have to rent forever, either by choice or because they are priced out of the market. So what does this mean for "forever renters" in the long term?
  
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• More Australians believe they'll be 'forever renters'. What does it mean?

  26-03-2025 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  More Australian renters believe they may have to rent forever, either by choice or because they are priced out of the market. So what does this mean for "forever renters" in the long term?
  
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• 'Feels like a metaphor': ANU on deadline to complete restoration after hailstorm

  26-03-2025 20:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Like all ambitious rebuilds, it comes complete with drama, delay, cost overruns and the grit to persevere through to completion.
  
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• A hailstorm damaged ANU's second-oldest building — see the restoration five years on

  26-03-2025 20:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Like all ambitious rebuilds, it comes complete with drama, delay, cost overruns and the grit to persevere through to completion.
  
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• One in four Australians in the dark about their super insurance

  26-03-2025 20:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Despite Australians paying almost $7 billion dollars for group insurance within super annually, new research shows more than a quarter aren't aware if they have cover or the details of their policies.
  
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• Lyndal was in the dark about her super insurance until she claimed

  26-03-2025 20:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Despite Australians paying almost $7 billion for group insurance within super annually, new research shows more than a quarter aren't aware if they have cover or the details of their policies.
  
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• 'Just cook it': Pig's head, dead rats sent to newsroom in Indonesia

  26-03-2025 20:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Indonesian police launch a preliminary investigation into "acts of terror" against an investigative media organisation after carcasses were delivered to its Jakarta office.  
  
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• Owner of ‘uneconomical’ Port Pirie and Hobart smelters calls for government help to stay afloat

  26-03-2025 20:08 via abc.net.au
  
  The operator of smelters in South Australia and Tasmania is urging state and federal governments to provide "essential" financial support, after its facilities were described as "uncompetitive assets".  
  
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• Owner of Port Pirie and Hobart smelters makes pitch for government intervention

  26-03-2025 20:08 via abc.net.au
  
  The operator of smelters in South Australia and Tasmania is urging state and federal governments to provide "essential" financial support, after its facilities were described as "uncompetitive assets". 
  
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• The entry-level workers and would-be business owners hit with non-competes

  26-03-2025 20:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Nicole hadn't been in her sales job for even a year when she resigned, but her former employer is now trying to stop her working in the same industry for the next six months. 
  
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• 'A huge hit to my career': junior worker faces six month non-compete

  26-03-2025 20:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Nicole hadn't been in her sales job for even a year when she resigned, but her former employer is now trying to stop her working in the same industry for the next six months. 
  
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• Dutton's pledge to fast-track North West Shelf could expose it to legal challenge

  26-03-2025 19:48 via abc.net.au
  
  A prominent environmental lawyer warns that Peter Dutton's pledge to approve a major WA gas project within 30 days of taking office will expose the project to likely legal challenges.
  
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• Choice report finds Woolworths groceries more expensive than a year ago

  26-03-2025 14:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Research from consumer advocacy group Choice has found the average basket of groceries is now costing Woolworths shoppers more than it was a year ago, while the price has fallen at both Coles and Aldi.
  
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• American big pharma boss does not support tariffs on Australian medicines

  26-03-2025 10:52 via abc.net.au
  
  The head of one of America's largest pharmaceutical companies says he does not support tariffs on Australian medicines as US President Donald Trump considers more trade restrictions.
  
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• Stephen Jones to keynote Momentum Media’s Election 2025 event

  26-03-2025 08:06
  Stephen Jones to keynote Momentum Media’s Election 2025 eventStaff reporterWed, 2025-03-26 18:06Print
  
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• Brisbane to become the only capital that can't host national athletics

  26-03-2025 07:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Athletics Australia has accused the Queensland government of "overlooking" track and field in its Brisbane Olympics plan, saying the sport will receive "no legacy benefits" beyond the 2032 Games.
  
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• Athletics Australia requests 'urgent' meeting over Brisbane Olympics plan

  26-03-2025 07:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Athletics Australia has accused the Queensland government of "overlooking" track and field in its Brisbane Olympics plan, saying the sport will receive "no legacy benefits" beyond the 2032 Games.
  
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• More than 100 businesses linked to illegal tyre stockpile near Bendigo

  26-03-2025 06:24 via abc.net.au
  
  About 10,000 tyres have been found at an illegal dump at Lockwood South, near Bendigo, sparking a statewide operation by the EPA.
  
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• Why economists are so keen to abolish non-compete clauses

  26-03-2025 06:05 via abc.net.au
  
  A proposed ban on-compete clauses in employment contracts was a centrepiece of the budget. But what are they, how do they work, and why do most economists think they are bad for workers and the economy?
  
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• What are non-compete clauses and why are economists so keen to abolish them?

  26-03-2025 06:05 via abc.net.au
  
  A proposed ban on-compete clauses in employment contracts was a centrepiece of the budget. But what are they, how do they work, and why do most economists think they are bad for workers and the economy?
  
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• Dead fish, heckling senator and DiCaprio's deed as salmon law debated

  26-03-2025 05:56 via abc.net.au
  
  A dead fish used as a prop in the Senate, a Hollywood superstar's intervention and Labor being shouted at as a "pack of mongrels" all have featured on the day a new law to protect salmon farm jobs in Tasmania is being debated.
  
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• Dead fish, heckling senator and a DiCaprio intervention as salmon law debated

  26-03-2025 05:56 via abc.net.au
  
  A dead fish used as a prop in the Senate, a Hollywood superstar's intervention and Labor being shouted at as a "pack of mongrels" all have featured on the day a new law to protect salmon farm jobs in Tasmania is being debated.
  
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• 'It killed everything': Scientist assesses fracking fluid spills at NT site

  26-03-2025 05:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Traditional owners and a scientist fear there have been more fracking fluid spills by gas companies exploring the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin.
  
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• 'It killed everything': Scientist assesses fluid spills at NT fracking site

  26-03-2025 05:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Traditional owners and a scientist fear there have been more fracking fluid spills by gas companies exploring the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin.
  
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• 'It killed everything': Scientist assesses chemical spills at NT fracking site

  26-03-2025 05:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Traditional owners and a scientist fear there have been more fracking chemical spills by gas companies exploring the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin.
  
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• Decision on major gas project in WA's north-west delayed again

  26-03-2025 04:53 via abc.net.au
  
  Woodside says a decision to further delay approval for its major gas project in WA's north west until after the federal election is "extremely disappointing". 
  
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• Approval for Woodside gas project extension delayed for second time

  26-03-2025 04:53 via abc.net.au
  
  Woodside says a decision to further delay approval for its major gas project in WA's north west until after the federal election is "extremely disappointing". 
  
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• Clothing retailer Jeanswest collapses, hundreds of jobs to go

  26-03-2025 03:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Clothing retailer Jeanswest has collapsed, with more than 90 stores set to close within months and hundreds of employees set to lose their jobs.
  
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• Breaking: Clothing retailer Jeanswest collapses, hundreds of jobs to go

  26-03-2025 03:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Clothing retailer Jeanswest has collapsed, with more than 90 stores set to close within months and hundreds of employees going out of work.
  
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• Caustic burns to students, workers see Alcoa hit with $400k fine

  26-03-2025 02:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Aluminium giant Alcoa is fined $400,000 over an incident where employees and work experience students were burned by an "uncontrolled discharge of hot caustic solution" at its Kwinana refinery in WA. 
  
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• Alcoa fined over 'very serious' chemical burns to work experience students

  26-03-2025 02:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Aluminium giant Alcoa is fined $400,000 over an incident where workers and school students were burned by an "uncontrolled discharge of hot caustic solution" at its Kwinana refinery in WA. 
  
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• Alcoa fined $400k for work experience students' burns

  26-03-2025 02:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Aluminium giant Alcoa is fined $400,000 for a 2022 incident in which employees and work experience students suffered caustic burns at its Kwinana refinery in Western Australia. 
  
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• Whyalla's 'MacGyver-like' steelworkers praised as site on track for sale

  26-03-2025 02:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Whyalla steelworks administrator KordaMentha says it has identified up to a dozen "interested parties" as it seeks to secure a sale of the business by the end of the year, and has also praised the "MacGyver-like" ingenuity of local workers contending with a plant in need of repair.
  
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• HBO's streaming service is coming to Australia. It could change everything

  26-03-2025 00:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Yes, there is yet another streaming service arriving on our shores. But things are a little different with this one, and it could up-end the Australian TV landscape.
  
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