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• Live: Australia's unemployment rate rose to 4.1pc in March

  16-04-2025 23:24 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian investors are betting on a rate cut in May of up to half a per cent, as the latest labour force figures are released. Wall Street fell again, as tariff fears continue. 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: Australian stock market opens higher, despite Wall Street tariff woes

  16-04-2025 23:24 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian investors are betting on a rate cut in May of up to half a per cent. Meanwhile, Wall Street is down again, as tariff fears continue. 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: Australian shares rise as jobs market stays fairly steady

  16-04-2025 23:24 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares are on the rise, as the latest labour force data shows employment increasing by 32,000. Wall Street fell again, as tariff fears continue. 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: Australian shares headed for more losses, as Wall Street closes down again

  16-04-2025 23:24 via abc.net.au
  
  Wall Street is set to close lower, after concerns about tariffs were aired by the US central bank's chair and by chip maker Nvidia. 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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• Australian share market closes higher following jobs data — as it happened

  16-04-2025 23:24 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares ended the day higher, as the latest labour force data shows employment increasing by 32,000. Wall Street fell again, as tariff fears continue. 
  
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• Oyster grower claims Australia's most prestigious food prize

  16-04-2025 23:19 via abc.net.au
  
  The inaugural winner of the Sydney Royal Easter Show President's Medal has taken it home again nearly two decades later.
  
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• Shared living model offers hope amid rental housing crunch

  16-04-2025 21:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Advocates admit co-operative housing models are not for everyone but say for the right residents, they offer more security and affordable pricing than traditional rentals.
  
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• Could co-op housing solve Australia's rental crisis?

  16-04-2025 21:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Advocates admit co-operative housing models are not for everyone but say for the right residents, they offer more security and affordable pricing than traditional rentals.
  
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• 'Sorry for my cynicism': Salmon boss says he has no confidence in new fishery

  16-04-2025 21:43 via abc.net.au
  
  In an email last June, Tassal's CEO told the Tasmanian government he didn't "have any confidence" its department could develop a proposed new sardine fishery into a commercial interest.
  
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• With Dutton holding a thin margin, the stakes are high this election

  16-04-2025 21:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Dutton holds Dickson — a part outer-suburban mortgage belt, part rural electorate — with only a 2 per cent margin. 
  
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• Dutton's 'struggle street' seat the most marginal in Queensland

  16-04-2025 21:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Dutton holds Dickson — a part outer-suburban mortgage belt, part rural electorate — with only a 2 per cent margin. 
  
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• 'It rules your life': Owners of unfinished homes in limbo in Victoria

  16-04-2025 21:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Homeowners who say their complaints to the Victorian Building Authority failed to materially improve their situation, are now calling on the state government to provide compensation.
  
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• 'I can't get out': How Andrea's country home dream turned to nightmare

  16-04-2025 21:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Homeowners who say their complaints to the Victorian Building Authority failed to materially improve their situation, are now calling on the state government to provide compensation.
  
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• How Andrea's rural retirement dream was derailed by building disputes

  16-04-2025 21:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Homeowners who say their complaints to the Victorian Building Authority failed to materially improve their situation, are now calling on the state government to provide compensation.
  
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• Kids' video games use gambling-like tactics to trap players, report finds

  16-04-2025 20:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Popular video games are utilising harmful tactics to trap kids into spending more cash and more time gaming, a new consumer report finds.
  
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• Kids trapped for hours by deceptive video game features, report finds

  16-04-2025 20:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Popular video games are utilising harmful tactics to trap kids into spending more cash and more time gaming, a new consumer report finds.
  
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• 'Gambling without limits': How video games are fleecing kids

  16-04-2025 20:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Popular video games are utilising harmful tactics to trap kids into spending more cash and more time gaming, a new consumer report finds.
  
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• Why the market meltdowns may have been a trial run

  16-04-2025 20:39 via abc.net.au
  
  While the past few days has seen calmness return to markets, many of the financial world's best minds fear further falls — and warn we're nowhere near the end, unless America backs away from its current policy. One analyst warns we're witnessing something not seen since the Great Depression.
  
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• Market meltdowns may have been a trial run, insiders warn

  16-04-2025 20:39 via abc.net.au
  
  While the past few days has seen calmness return to markets, many of the financial world's best minds fear further falls — and warn we're nowhere near the end, unless America backs away from its current policy. One analyst warns we're witnessing something not seen since the Great Depression.
  
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• Market meltdowns may have been a trial run, economists warn

  16-04-2025 20:39 via abc.net.au
  
  While the past few days has seen calmness return to markets, many of the financial world's best minds fear further falls — and warn we're nowhere near the end, unless America backs away from its current policy. One analyst warns we're witnessing something not seen since the Great Depression.
  
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• Market insiders buckle up for further financial turmoil

  16-04-2025 20:39 via abc.net.au
  
  While the past few days has seen calmness return to markets, many of the financial world's best minds fear further falls — and warn we're nowhere near the end, unless America backs away from its current policy. One analyst warns we're witnessing something not seen since the Great Depression.
  
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• This country has electronic banking for the first time ever

  16-04-2025 17:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Residents on the Pacific island of Tuvalu have previously withdrawn cash from banks on payday, with long queues ensuing at bank branches.
  
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• Pacific island nation gains access to electronic banking for first time ever

  16-04-2025 17:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Residents on the Pacific island of Tuvalu have previously withdrawn cash from banks on payday, with long queues ensuing at bank branches.
  
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• US and Japan aim for deal on tariffs as Donald Trump joins talks

  16-04-2025 16:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Analysts say countries around the world will be watching the outcome of the meeting closely to determine how best to negotiate on the issue of US tariffs.
  
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• Darwin Airport records rise in passengers too drunk to fly

  16-04-2025 12:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Federal police are ramping up their presence at Darwin Airport after a rise in "obnoxious" and "abusive" drunken passengers in the past 12 months.
  
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• Owner of Kalgoorlie's Super Pit completes $5bn gold takeover

  16-04-2025 11:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's biggest gold miner Northern Star Resources has added a rich new discovery in WA's Pilbara to its portfolio after shareholders in De Grey Mining overwhelmingly voted in favour of a takeover.
  
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• 'Going to China with an empty suitcase': US shoppers swap tips to beat tariffs

  16-04-2025 10:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Chinese factories are trying to sell directly to American consumers on social media platforms in a bid to bypass the 145 per cent tariff hike imposed by Donald Trump.
  
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• Footwear chain Wittner hopes for new buyer after collapse

  16-04-2025 09:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian footwear chain Wittner is the latest local retailer to face closure, with administrators appointed to manage the 113-year-old company.
  
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• Operator of trouble-plagued power plant 'understated the gravity' of explosion

  16-04-2025 08:59 via abc.net.au
  
  CS Energy has conceded there has not been adequate reporting of serious issues following an explosion at the facility on April 4.
  
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• Zuckerberg considered 'spinning off' Instagram in 2018 amid antitrust scrutiny

  16-04-2025 07:33 via abc.net.au
  
  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off popular photo-sharing app Instagram in 2018 over concerns about the growing risk of antitrust scrutiny.
  
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• Video of 'disgusting' youth disturbance in Big W fuels police probe

  16-04-2025 07:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Tasmania Police is investigating a disturbance that broke out yesterday at a department store in Hobart's northern suburbs, as a video of the affray emerges. 
  
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• Restaurant industry spooked by vow to crack down on immigrant workers

  16-04-2025 04:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Hospitality industry leaders fear it will become harder to fill their rosters as both major parties vow to reduce immigration levels if they win the federal election.
  
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• China halts orders of US-made Boeing jets, scrapping deals worth billions

  16-04-2025 02:51 via abc.net.au
  
  China has reportedly ordered its airlines to pause all incoming deliveries of American Boeing aircraft in response to Donald Trump's 145 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods.
  
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• Live: Wall Street closes in the red after volatile trade

  16-04-2025 00:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Stock markets and currencies continued to react to Donald Trump's tariff comments. ASX futures are pointing marginally lower, while Star Entertainment shares will return to trade today. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: Nvidia faces $8.7b hit on China chip exports

  16-04-2025 00:13 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market has edged higher, while shares in Star Entertainment have faced choppy trade after their suspension ended. Nvidia shares fell after-hours on Wall Street. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• ASX closes down, Nvidia faces $8.7b hit on China chip exports — as it happened

  16-04-2025 00:13 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market has closed slightly lower, while shares in Star Entertainment have faced choppy trade after their suspension ended. Nvidia shares fell after-hours on Wall Street.  
  
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