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• Coalition to release 'materially better, in double digits' budget costings

  30-04-2025 14:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor will claim the Coalition's budget deficits would be at least $10 billion smaller than Labor's forecast $150 billion shortfalls over four years.
  
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• After the first attempt failed, outback town gives renewables another go

  16-06-2026 23:05 via abc.net.au
  
  This outback town is giving renewable energy another shot as a new solar farm and battery system hooks up to the grid, two decades after a solar array project failed to live up to the hype. 
  
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• Queensland sets 65 pc recycling target as waste outstrips growth

  16-06-2026 22:51 via abc.net.au
  
  The Queensland government wants to more than double the household recycling rate from 28 per cent to 60 per cent. 
  
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• NSW home owners and renters gain access to $480m renewable energy scheme

  16-06-2026 22:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Interest-free loans and cash subsidies are being offered by the New South Wales government to encourage the uptake of renewable energy measures like solar panels and household batteries.
  
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• How this $480 million NSW renewable energy scheme could affect your home

  16-06-2026 22:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Interest-free loans and cash subsidies are being offered by the New South Wales government to encourage the uptake of renewable energy measures like solar panels and household batteries.
  
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• Pensioner finds cheaper life in Thailand after rent squeeze

  16-06-2026 21:50 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Stevenson says moving to Thailand has allowed him to live more comfortably on his Australian Age Pension after struggling to cover rent and essentials in regional Victoria.
  
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• 'I didn't have a life': Pensioner moves to Thailand for cheaper living

  16-06-2026 21:50 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Stevenson says moving to Thailand has allowed him to live more comfortably on his Australian Age Pension after struggling to cover rent and essentials in regional Victoria.
  
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• Visitors to Kunanyi/Mt Wellington should pay, report finds

  16-06-2026 21:30 via abc.net.au
  
  A tourism consultancy firm has recommended that visitors to Hobart's Kunanyi/Mt Wellington be charged for access — likely to result in a "deliberate and positive outcome" of fewer people going.
  
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• 'It's all too hard': Fuel shock pushes regional businesses to the brink

  16-06-2026 21:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Small-town coffee shops and long-established businesses are at risk of closing despite a ceasefire in the Middle East easing the global oil price. Regional businesses say fuel relief measures need to be extended because the damage done from the fuel shock is far from over.
   
  
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• Brewery fined following legal battle with Queensland council

  16-06-2026 09:07 via abc.net.au
  
  A once popular brewery has been fined in court after shutting up shop earlier this year due to an ongoing legal battle with a Queensland council.
  
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• Reserve Bank keeps interest rate at 4.35pc as economy slows

  16-06-2026 06:37 via abc.net.au
  
  The Reserve Bank keeps the interest rate at 4.35pc as Australia's economy slows down.
  
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• Breaking: Reserve Bank keeps interest rate at 4.35pc as economy slows

  16-06-2026 06:37 via abc.net.au
  
  The Reserve Bank keeps the interest rate at 4.35pc as Australia's economy slows down.
  
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• Craft retailer Lincraft to close rest of its stores in Australia and NZ

  16-06-2026 06:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Retailer Lincraft will close the remainder of its shopfronts after more than 80 years of providing fabric, materials and homewares to Aussie crafters.
  
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• Rabbits are everywhere in the wild, so why is rabbit meat so expensive?

  16-06-2026 06:04 via abc.net.au
  
  Once a cheap meat for families doing it tough, the price and availability of rabbit means it has gone from family dinner to fine dining. 
  
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• Beleaguered KPMG referred to anti-corruption watchdog amid contract freeze

  16-06-2026 05:39 via abc.net.au
  
  KPMG is facing a three-month freeze on new federal government contracts amid a worsening scandal over the treatment of a whistleblower, with the Greens now referring the beleaguered company to the national anti-corruption watchdog.
  
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• NSW Police review officer pushing protester at pro-Palestine picket

  16-06-2026 05:00 via abc.net.au
  
  NSW Police will review footage showing a woman falling to the ground after being pushed by an officer during a pro-Palestine protest outside Bisalloy Steels in Wollongong.
  
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• NSW Police investigate video of officer pushing Bisalloy protester

  16-06-2026 05:00 via abc.net.au
  
  NSW Police will review footage showing a woman falling to the ground after being pushed by an officer during a pro-Palestine protest outside Bisalloy Steels in Wollongong.
  
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• Allied health workers walk off the job at Victorian public hospitals

  16-06-2026 02:07 via abc.net.au
  
  The strike involves radiographers, sonographers, physiotherapists, podiatrists, speech pathologists and social workers at the state's public hospitals.
  
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• Allied health workers to start 24-hour strike at Victorian public hospitals

  16-06-2026 02:07 via abc.net.au
  
  The strike involves radiographers, sonographers, physiotherapists, podiatrists, speech pathologists and social workers at the state's public hospitals.
  
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• Fishers furious as 1.6km nets trialled near Great Barrier Reef

  15-06-2026 23:32 via abc.net.au
  
  The nets are being floated as a replacement for the controversial gillnets, which will be banned from June next year.
  
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• Feud erupts as consumers on the hook for billion-dollar grid blowout

  15-06-2026 20:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Transgrid wants to claw back huge cost increases for a major transmission line from consumers. Experts say the regulator's decision will have far-reaching consequences. 
  
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• Consumers on the hook for $1b powerline cost blowout

  15-06-2026 20:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Transgrid wants to claw back huge cost increases for a major transmission line from consumers. Experts say the regulator's decision will have far-reaching consequences.
  
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• Property market shifts from 'urgency to caution' as buyers step back

  15-06-2026 20:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Interest rate hikes, tax changes and global economic uncertainty force first home buyers and investors to press pause on property purchases.
  
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• Property market hit by buyers' strike as investors, first home buyers press pause

  15-06-2026 20:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Interest rate hikes, tax changes and global economic uncertainty force first home buyers and investors to press pause on property purchases.
  
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• Property market hit by buyer's strike as investors, first home buyers press pause

  15-06-2026 20:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Interest rate hikes, tax changes and global economic uncertainty force first home buyers and investors to press pause on property purchases.
  
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• Property market hit by buyer's strike as investors, first-home buyers press pause

  15-06-2026 20:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Interest rate hikes, tax changes and global economic uncertainty force first home buyers and investors to press pause on property purchases.
  
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• Labor's CGT plan flawed but better than what we have, economists tell inquiry

  15-06-2026 08:55 via abc.net.au
  
  Economists have offered qualified support for the government's plans on day one of a Senate inquiry.
  
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• Labor's capital gains proposal flawed but better than what we have, economists tell inquiry

  15-06-2026 08:55 via abc.net.au
  
  Economists have offered qualified support for the government's plans on day one of a Senate inquiry.
  
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• Air quality monitoring to be upgraded in the NT after Inpex under-reporting

  15-06-2026 08:03 via abc.net.au
  
  The Northern Territory government has announced a plan to introduce new air quality monitoring of toxic pollutants, including any carcinogenic emissions. It follows a review that found gas giant Inpex had underestimated its emissions in Darwin.
  
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• 'Potentially still a future': Liberty Bell Bay smelter given another reprieve

  15-06-2026 05:04 via abc.net.au
  
  The administrator for the mothballed manganese smelter is continuing to engage with the consortium designated as its preferred buyer, the ABC understands.
  
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