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• Luxury cruise passengers left out of pocket after tour company folds

  23-08-2026 23:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Customers who booked "once-in-a-lifetime" holidays to Western Australia's north are left in limbo after a business loan went wrong for a luxury cruise company.
  
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• Luxury cruise passengers left out of pocket after tour company defaults

  23-08-2026 23:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Customers who booked "once-in-a-lifetime" holidays to Western Australia's north are left in limbo after a business loan went wrong for a luxury cruise company.
  
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• Luxury cruise passengers left out of pocket after ship seized by receivers

  23-08-2026 23:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Customers who booked "once in a lifetime" holidays to Western Australia's north are left in limbo after a business loan went wrong for a luxury cruise company.
  
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• Secretive, century-old explosives facility approved for expansion

  23-08-2026 23:29 via abc.net.au
  
  One of four government-run explosive facilities in Queensland, the Bajool reserve has been in action since 1913. There are plans to expand it to meet increased demand from the mining industry.
  
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• ASX rises as miners rally while banks sink — as it happened

  23-08-2026 22:58 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market has closed higher, led by the materials sector. It follows Wall Street finishing Friday on a positive note, but still shedding 1.4 per cent over the week.
  
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• Wagga's drinking water diluted after elevated PFAS levels detected

  23-08-2026 22:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Riverina Water is diluting water from two of its Wagga Wagga bores due to elevated detections of so-called "forever chemicals", but the source of contamination is a mystery. 
  
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• City's drinking water diluted after elevated PFAS levels detected

  23-08-2026 22:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Riverina Water is diluting water from two of its Wagga Wagga bores due to elevated detections of so-called "forever chemicals", but the source of contamination is a mystery. 
  
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• Former The OC actor on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency

  23-08-2026 21:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Hollywood actor Ben McKenzie speaks to ABC News about what led him to investigate one of the biggest financial movements of the decade.
  
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• Albanese to override Queensland to settle AI data centre energy rules

  23-08-2026 20:53 via abc.net.au
  
  Queensland's rejection of rules tying data centre construction to new renewables projects means the federal government will be forced to legislate to override the state.
  
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• Trump hits back at Canada after retaliatory tariffs announced

  23-08-2026 10:52 via abc.net.au
  
  The US president says Canada "wants the benefits of being a state, without being one", accusing the northern neighbours of taking advantage of American farmers "for many years".
  
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• 'Most people wouldn't even realise': Why Canberra is a data centre hotspot

  23-08-2026 00:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Andrew Barr says there is no need to pause the development of new data centres in Canberra because the ACT's standards will meet or exceed proposed national rules.
  
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• Data centres are already humming away in the ACT and there could be more coming

  23-08-2026 00:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Andrew Barr says there is no need to pause the development of new data centres in Canberra because the ACT's standards will meet or exceed proposed national rules.
  
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