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• Fiji's HIV epidemic is surging and babies are paying the price

  24-09-2026 23:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Fiji has free testing and treatment to prevent mothers passing HIV to their babies. Last year, 59 babies were infected anyway, and 18 died before they turned one.
  
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• NSW Planning fails to consult key agencies over data centre gas plant

  24-09-2026 22:02 via abc.net.au
  
  The NSW Department of Planning has admitted it made an error when it skipped consultation with key agencies regarding a proposal for a major gas plant to power data centres.
  
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• Data centre gas plant consultation skipped after legal threat, staffer says

  24-09-2026 22:02 via abc.net.au
  
  The NSW Department of Planning has admitted it made an error when it skipped consultation with key agencies regarding a proposal for a major gas plant to power data centres.
  
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• Each rate rise locking aspiring homebuyers out for a decade, study finds

  24-09-2026 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Each standard interest rate increase could be locking close to 30,000 households out of home ownership, some of them for a decade or more.
  
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• As fuel costs escalate again, regional Australia is hurting

  24-09-2026 21:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Regional industries and communities are feeling a "disproportionate impact"  of rising bowser prices, a policy expert says.  
  
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• Scientists probe connection between deadly frog disease and coal wastewater

  24-09-2026 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  A study on the impact of chytrid fungus disease in Royal National Park frogs raises questions about regulation of coalmine wastewater.
  
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• 'Forced down our throats': Why Australians are the world's biggest AI sceptics

  24-09-2026 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians are the most sceptical in the world about AI. Overseas, it's a different story. 
  
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• 'Forced down our throats': Most of us never chose an AI world. Yet here we are

  24-09-2026 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians are the most sceptical in the world about AI. Overseas, it's a different story. 
  
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• Australia vows AI guardrails after unprecedented OpenAI breach

  24-09-2026 20:35 via abc.net.au
  
  OpenAI's delayed reporting of an autonomous agent breaching a government website has strengthened Australia's push for tougher AI safety and disclosure rules. 
  
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• Australia to pursue AI guardrails after unprecedented OpenAI breach

  24-09-2026 20:35 via abc.net.au
  
  OpenAI's delayed reporting of an autonomous agent breaching a government website has strengthened Australia's push for tougher AI safety and disclosure rules. 
  
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• Trump hails 'great friendship' with Xi as Chinese leader visits White House

  24-09-2026 18:08 via abc.net.au
  
  The three-day summit is likely to be more about spectacle than substance despite Donald Trump saying he would be discussing "pressing" issues, including AI.
  
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• Trump hails ‘great friendship’ with Xi as Chinese leader visits White House

  24-09-2026 18:08 via abc.net.au
  
  The three-day summit is likely to be more about spectacle than substance despite Donald Trump saying he would be discussing "pressing" issues, including AI.
  
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• Collapsed caravan company referred to ASIC amid $9 million debt

  24-09-2026 09:48 via abc.net.au
  
  A creditors' meeting for Australian Off Road, which collapsed last week, reveals the caravan maker owes about $9 million.
  
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• Lenders pull out of Bathla group as construction work halts across sites

  24-09-2026 08:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Building work has stopped at sites and company is down to skeleton staff.
  
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• Breaking: Lenders pull out of Bathla group as construction work halts across sites

  24-09-2026 08:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Building work has stopped at sites and company is down to skeleton staff.
  
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• Another setback for beleaguered Cape du Couedic wave buoy

  24-09-2026 05:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Plans to redeploy a wave buoy that has only been operational for 10 months since August 2024 face new delays.
  
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• 'Who wouldn't slap you': Jones's ex-butler's comments outside court

  24-09-2026 05:09 via abc.net.au
  
  David Allan, who worked as Alan Jones's personal butler for more than 18 years, is giving evidence in the broadcaster's indecent assault and sexual touching trial.
  
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• Jones's butler comments outside court after 'slap on the bottom' evidence

  24-09-2026 05:09 via abc.net.au
  
  David Allan, who worked as Alan Jones's personal butler for more than 18 years, is giving evidence in the broadcaster's indecent assault and sexual touching trial.
  
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• Jones greeted athlete with 'slap on the bottom', ex-butler tells court

  24-09-2026 05:09 via abc.net.au
  
  David Allan, who worked as Alan Jones's personal butler for more than 18 years, is giving evidence in the broadcaster's indecent assault and sexual touching trial.
  
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• Sydney Airport's warning for passengers amid two separate staff strikes

  24-09-2026 04:53 via abc.net.au
  
  Passengers travelling from Sydney Airport today are being warned to arrive with extra time before their flight, as two separate strikes impact airport security and ground services.
  
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• 'Quite disruptive': Passengers react to workers' strikes at Sydney Airport

  24-09-2026 04:53 via abc.net.au
  
  Passengers travelling from Sydney Airport today are being warned to arrive with extra time before their flight, as two separate strikes impact airport security and ground services.
  
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• Coal mine owners walk away and leave rehabilitation to state

  24-09-2026 04:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Liquidators surrender the leases of a central Queensland coal mine, with questions around who will manage and pay for the rehabilitation of the site.
  
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• Unemployment rate reaches post-COVID era high of 4.6pc in August

  24-09-2026 03:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Some economists say the increase won't be enough to stop the Reserve Bank lifting interest rates next week.
  
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• Breaking: Unemployment rate reaches post-COVID era high of 4.6pc in August

  24-09-2026 03:45 via abc.net.au
  
  The national unemployment rate rises to 4.6 per cent, up from 4.5 per cent in July, in seasonally adjusted and trend terms.
  
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• Analyst warns diesel could top $4 and rationing possible if US ban proceeds

  24-09-2026 03:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Saul Kavonic says the US's proposed diesel export ban is "probably the most worrying development we've seen in global fuel markets since the [Middle East] war began".
   
  
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• Hopes new Bass Strait service will lead to cheaper shipping for farmers

  24-09-2026 02:25 via abc.net.au
  
  There will be a "big change" for cattle producers on King and Flinders islands when a new Victorian depot is complete that will allow shipping to bypass mainland Tasmania, a local freight service says.
  
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• Roadside stall operators question future of honesty box system after crimes

  24-09-2026 02:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Theft and vandalism are leading the operators of some roadside pantries to reconsider the honesty box payment system.
  
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• Qld council says costs prevent it hitting recycling targets

  24-09-2026 01:35 via abc.net.au
  
  As fuel prices soar, many regional local governments are struggling with the cost of transporting recyclables hundreds of kilometres for processing.
  
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• Historic winery sold to Victorian company with plans to restart production

  24-09-2026 01:08 via abc.net.au
  
  The winery's heritage-listed underground cellars have been little more than a tourist attraction of late. All that might be about to change. 
  
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