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• Debt-ridden developer Bathla will meet its payroll obligations

  03-09-2026 05:40 via abc.net.au
  
  The embattled Bathla Group has found some funding to pay its staff today as it teeters on collapse.
  
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• Venue apologises for AI flyers that have 'no place' in creative industry

  04-09-2026 00:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Chloe Young is facing an uphill battle in the face of a global AI boom, but some have taken up their offer to draw "squiggles" instead of using flyers generated by computers.
  
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• Not yet safe to access Hydro Tasmania power station destroyed by fire

  03-09-2026 21:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Investigations are continuing into the cause of a fire that gutted the Tungatinah Power Station. Authorities say it is not yet safe to enter the building, which supplies 5 per cent of the state's energy, in the Central Highlands.
  
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• Byron Bay could be losing its fight against high-rise

  03-09-2026 21:14 via abc.net.au
  
  The northern NSW community has fought for decades against high-rise buildings, but developers may have found a way around local planning restrictions.
  
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• Australia's housing problems will take 'generation' to fix, NAB economist warns

  03-09-2026 20:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Property price declines of 7 per cent will not solve Australia's housing affordability issues, NAB chief economist says.
  
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• Australia's housing problems will take 'generation' to fix, NAB economist

  03-09-2026 20:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Property price declines of 7 per cent will not solve Australia's housing affordability issues, NAB chief economist says.
  
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• Realtor raided after allegations agent sold client's home to himself

  03-09-2026 10:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Authorities have raided the offices of Ideal Realty amid a probe into allegations the Perth property firm's licensees used a shell company to buy their own client's home without telling him.
  
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• Billionaire's Tasmanian trainwreck has broken workers and marriages

  03-09-2026 09:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Locals fear the closure of another smelter in Tasmania will be disastrous for the economy as anger brews over the federal government's failure to offer a bailout.
  
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• Hundreds or regional doctors stop work over poor working conditions

  03-09-2026 09:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Doctors from Ballarat Base Hospital and Bendigo Health have walked off the job citing exhaustion, low morale and stressful working conditions.
  
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• Hundreds of regional doctors stop work over poor working conditions

  03-09-2026 09:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Doctors from Ballarat Base Hospital and Bendigo Health have walked off the job citing exhaustion, low morale and stressful working conditions.
  
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• Tasmanian government chasing $1m in meal costs after prison kitchen slip-up

  03-09-2026 09:12 via abc.net.au
  
  The Tasmanian government is hoping to recover the more than $1 million it has spent on food for the Risdon Prison population after its new $20 million kitchen's floor was deemed too slippery to safely use.
  
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• Small businesses scan for fake cash as counterfeit seizures soar

  03-09-2026 08:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Business owners scan cash notes with blue lights in a bid to avoid being stung, as the Australian Border Force reports a huge increase in the amount of counterfeit cash entering the country.
  
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• Morley Market business owners still struggling one year after devastating fire

  03-09-2026 07:42 via abc.net.au
  
  One year on from a devastating fire which destroyed a shopping centre in Perth's north-east, the pain for business owners who lost what they had spent years working on is still raw.
  
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• 'I lost everything': Businesses still reeling one year after shopping centre fire

  03-09-2026 07:42 via abc.net.au
  
  One year on from a devastating fire which destroyed a shopping centre in Perth's north-east, the pain for business owners who lost what they had spent years working on is still raw.
  
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• Pipeline companies' major plans to supply east coast with Beetaloo gas

  03-09-2026 07:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Gas is flowing from the Beetaloo Basin to Darwin, and two companies are progressing plans to connect the resource to homes and businesses in the eastern states.
  
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• Government offers small businesses a trust tax workaround

  03-09-2026 06:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Those with discretionary trusts can be exempt from the new minimum 30 per cent tax if they agree to hold their trust distributions constant.
  
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• Breaking: Bathla Group will meet its payroll obligations

  03-09-2026 05:40 via abc.net.au
  
  The embattled Bathla Group has found some funding to pay its staff today as it teeters on collapse.
  
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• British-backed CPC buys another NT station for $47.4m

  03-09-2026 03:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Consolidated Pastoral Company has bought Vermelha Station in the Northern Territory for $47.4 million, which includes a water licence for 2,956ML.
  
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• Theft of sanitary items demonstrates period poverty desperation

  03-09-2026 02:42 via abc.net.au
  
  Using socks as sanitary pads, wearing tampons for more than two days and stealing products from supermarkets are some of the lengths women and girls are going to in order to manage their periods.
  
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• Stealing sanitary items demonstrates desperation of period poverty

  03-09-2026 02:42 via abc.net.au
  
  Using socks as sanitary pads, wearing tampons for more than two days and stealing products from supermarkets are some of the lengths women and girls are going to in order to manage their periods.
  
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• Live: Hadley back in the witness box for a third day, as Jones trial resumes

  03-09-2026 02:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Ray Hadley returns for a third day to Alan Jones's indecent assault and sexual touching trial, which has been examining the pair's "tumultuous" relationship.
  
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• Live: 'Complicated' relationship between ex-shock jocks probed at Jones's trial

  03-09-2026 02:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Ray Hadley was questioned for a third day in Alan Jones's indecent assault and sexual touching trial, which has been examining the pair's "tumultuous" working relationship.
  
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• 'Complicated' relationship between ex-shock jocks probed at Jones's trial

  03-09-2026 02:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Ray Hadley tells the trial of his 2GB rival Alan Jones that the broadcaster targeted him for disloyalty after he signed a secret contract to take over the breakfast show.
  
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• Insurance delays as Exmouth residents struggle with living conditions

  03-09-2026 00:55 via abc.net.au
  
  Five months after Cyclone Narelle caused damages to properties in Exmouth, locals are still struggling to have their insurance claims processed to start repairs for their homes.
  
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• Warwick Thornton enters Red CentreNATS with 'Michelangelo of the bush'

  03-09-2026 00:54 via abc.net.au
  
  Acclaimed Alice Springs filmmaker Warwick Thornton is also a diehard rev head and amateur mechanic who loves old cars — and he's making his Red CentreNATS debut this year with a lovingly restored 1970s Toyota FJ 40 "bull chaser".
  
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• Corporate Travel Management shares plummet — as it happened

  02-09-2026 23:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Shares in a major travel services company used by parliamentarians and embroiled in a $100 million scandal, Corporate Travel Management, plunge more than 80 per cent.
  
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• Profitable thrift store using 'smoke screen' to appear charitable, critics say

  02-09-2026 22:53 via abc.net.au
  
  Op shops are feeling threatened as Savers expands its second-hand retail stores across Australia.
  
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• Inside the $2 billion thrift store expanding in Australia

  02-09-2026 22:53 via abc.net.au
  
  Op shops are feeling threatened as Savers expands its second-hand retail stores across Australia.
  
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• 'Grossly inadequate': NT traditional owners plan to mandate mine rehabilitation

  02-09-2026 22:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Traditional owners in the NT want to see more money put aside for the rehabilitation of closed mines and are considering making it a requirement of any agreement established between mine companies and traditional owners.
  
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• The 'condescending' email at the centre of whistleblower concerns

  02-09-2026 21:44 via abc.net.au
  
  A KPMG whistleblower says the watchdog has to be "dragged kicking and screaming" to investigate alleged misconduct disclosures at the firm.
  
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