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• Breaking: Vodafone network crash potentially affecting millions of Australians

  18-06-2026 01:54 via abc.net.au
  
  A statement from the company says it is aware some customers are experiencing "intermittent issues" with its service and it is urgently investigating.
  
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• Jackie O and ARN Media legal battle continues after Sandilands's settlement

  18-06-2026 03:35 via abc.net.au
  
  A legal battle between Jackie "O" Henderson and ARN Media appears still headed for an October trial after her former co-host Kyle Sandilands settled his own court case against the company.
  
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• Breaking: Albanese, Chalmers unveil capital gains carve-outs for small businesses, startups

  18-06-2026 03:03 via abc.net.au
  
  The federal government has consulted with small businesses and startups over contentious elements of its budget tax proposal.
  
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• New hope for former celebrity island getaway off Far North Queensland

  18-06-2026 02:53 via abc.net.au
  
  A new lease has been announced for the abandoned Double Island resort and Brad Pitt, Keanu Reaves and Jenifer Aniston have been invited back for the reopening party. Work on providing public access is expected to start this year.
  
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• Vodafone network crash potentially affecting millions of Australians

  18-06-2026 01:54 via abc.net.au
  
  A statement from the company says it is aware some customers are experiencing "intermittent issues" with its service and it is urgently investigating.
  
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• Sell-out shows, cult status line-up: How Dark Mofo catapults artists

  17-06-2026 23:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Her headline show at Dark Mofo sold out in just over an hour, something Tasmanian Indigenous singer Miss Kaninna says couldn't have happened without the winter festival's ability to attract "massive, massive" music industry names.
  
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• Katherine couple still sleeping on verandah three months after major flooding

  17-06-2026 23:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Katherine couple Nicki and Luke Asling have been living on their back verandah for the past three months, after their home was flooded to the ceiling in March. Local renovators say it will take months for all the repairs in town to be completed.
  
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• Couple forced to live on verandah for three months awaiting flood repairs

  17-06-2026 23:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Katherine couple Nicki and Luke Asling have been living on their back verandah for the past three months, after their home was flooded to the ceiling in March. Local renovators say it will take months for all the repairs in town to be completed.
  
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• Convicted paedophile cleared to run family‑friendly Sydney apartment blocks

  17-06-2026 22:34 via abc.net.au
  
  The NSW government has authorised a convicted paedophile to manage nearly a dozen apartment buildings across Sydney, including those popular with young families.
  
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• David Littleproud takes on 'parasitic' insurers in the bush

  17-06-2026 22:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The MP has referred insurers, which he calls "corporate cancer", to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. 
  
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• David Littleproud takes on 'parasitic' insurers' in the bush

  17-06-2026 22:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The MP has referred insurers, which he calls "corporate cancer", to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. 
  
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• Homeless woman feels safer living in vehicle than shared housing

  17-06-2026 22:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Housing advocates say an increasing number of single, older women are choosing to live in vehicles while they wait for social housing.
  
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• Injured toddler's ordeal highlights risks of weather radar blackspot

  17-06-2026 21:35 via abc.net.au
  
  When two-year-old Teddy suffered a suspected broken leg on his family's outback property, the journey to hospital was complicated by a lack of reliable weather forecasting.
  
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• AI factory 'brings into doubt' Marinus Link future

  17-06-2026 21:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Tasmania's cool climate and access to renewable energy has made it an attractive place for AI data centre investment, but energy industry voices are warning that the business case for the Marinus Link project appears increasingly unviable if power-hungry players such as AI data centres continue to expand across the state.
  
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• AI factory 'brings into doubt' future of Tasmania's Marinus Link

  17-06-2026 21:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Tasmania's cool climate and access to renewable energy has made it an attractive place for AI data centre investment, but energy industry voices are warning that the business case for the Marinus Link project appears increasingly unviable if power-hungry players such as AI data centres continue to expand across the state.
  
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• Uni students tackle 'character-building' remote living through placements

  17-06-2026 21:09 via abc.net.au
  
  University student Tarhnee says her survival kit for a nursing prac placement was food, a swag, a chair and a little table for her laptop.
  
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• Couple left with nothing after investing $1m in 7-Eleven franchise

  17-06-2026 20:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Jotika and Sunny Sharma took out a loan to purchase their Sydney franchise in 2015. When the lease expired this year, their relationship with the convenience store giant turned ugly.
  
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• HSBC 'gaslit' customers who lost life savings. Now it's fronting court over failures

  17-06-2026 20:47 via abc.net.au
  
  HSBC customers who became victims of a long-running "spoofing" scam hope the bank will take full responsibility for its "system failures" in Federal Court this week.
  
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• HSBC fought customers 'tooth and nail' over scam but now it's fronting court

  17-06-2026 20:47 via abc.net.au
  
  HSBC customers who became victims of a long-running "spoofing" scam hope the bank will take full responsibility for its "system failures" in Federal Court this week.
  
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• HSBC agrees to pay $35 million penalty after widespread scam failures

  17-06-2026 20:47 via abc.net.au
  
  HSBC has admitted to failing to protect customers from scams and agreed to a $35 million penalty in the Federal Court.
  
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• Sydney-to-London unveiled as first route for Qantas's Project Sunrise

  17-06-2026 16:41 via abc.net.au
  
  The flights, set to begin take off from next year, will mark the first time flights from the east coast will complete the Kangaroo Route without a stop over.
  
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• Electricity like milk? The plan to simplify complex power bills

  17-06-2026 16:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Millions of Australians have been often unwittingly moved to complex and variable power tariffs. An energy watchdog says bills must be simplified.
  
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• 'Cut the complexity': Watchdog moves to dramatically simplify power bills

  17-06-2026 16:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Millions of Australians have been often unwittingly moved to complex and variable power tariffs. An energy watchdog says bills must be simplified.
  
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• Japan raids ice cream companies over alleged price fixing cartel

  17-06-2026 15:16 via abc.net.au
  
  Six of Japan's biggest ice cream companies are under suspicion of forming a cartel to hike up prices.
  
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• NT's new climate resilience plan lists gas project as top priority

  17-06-2026 09:32 via abc.net.au
  
  The Northern Territory government's newly released climate resilience plan has listed the acceleration of gas extraction at the Beetaloo Basin as a top priority. Environment groups have fiercely criticised the plan, saying it will "make climate change worse".
  
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• RBA warns financial industry to prepare for 'more shock-prone future'

  17-06-2026 09:30 via abc.net.au
  
  A new era of strategic uncertainty has serious implications for Australia's financial industry, the Reserve Bank warns.
  
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• Glue Store closes after posting $8.4m loss as economic pain hits retailers

  17-06-2026 04:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Glue Store announces its permanent closure, becoming the latest Australian retailer to fail this year.
  
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• Breaking: Glue Store closes after posting $8.4m loss

  17-06-2026 04:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Glue Store announces its permanent closure, becoming the latest Australian retailer to fail this year.
  
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• Another major retailer gone as economic pain hits home

  17-06-2026 04:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Glue Store announces its permanent closure, becoming the latest Australian retailer to fail this year.
  
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• Gina Rinehart's iron ore company flags job losses, reportedly in the hundreds

  17-06-2026 03:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Gina Rinehart's Hancock Iron Ore has cut jobs a year after merging its two iron ore businesses into a single entity, but won't say how many.
  
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