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• Drilling company says 'exciting time' as gold and exploration hit highs

  31-08-2026 06:28 via abc.net.au
  
  A Kalgoorlie-based drilling company involved in some of Australia's biggest recent gold discoveries is experiencing "unprecedented demand" amid an ongoing boom in mineral exploration.
  
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• ASIC probing hundreds of audit complaints at big four accounting firms

  04-09-2026 07:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Corporate regulator ASIC tells a parliamentary inquiry major accounting firms KPMG, PwC, EY and Deloitte have revealed 551 complaints in three years about alleged audit misconduct.
  
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• Two people rescued from Nepal hydropower tunnel, official says

  04-09-2026 06:08 via abc.net.au
  
  A Nepali official says two people have been rescued alive from a hydropower tunnel nine days after floods hit the area.
  
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• Locals excited as travellers roll in for outback's biggest racing event

  04-09-2026 04:16 via abc.net.au
  
  It is a classic outback event, and despite a slow start to the tourism season, thousands have gathered for the annual Birdsville Races, including a bus full of travellers from New South Wales who have vowed to donate their winnings to charity.
  
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• Breaking: Bathla creditors' meeting hears company owes $3.4 billion

  04-09-2026 03:42 via abc.net.au
  
  Bathla Group owes known creditors about $3.4 billion, including $3.08 billion to secured lenders, according to preliminary figures presented at the company's first creditors' meeting.
  
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• Bathla creditors' meeting hears company owes $3.4 billion

  04-09-2026 03:42 via abc.net.au
  
  Bathla Group owes known creditors about $3.4 billion, including $3.08 billion to secured lenders, according to preliminary figures presented at the company's first creditors' meeting.
  
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• Bathla $3.4b in debt and facing work halting at some sites

  04-09-2026 03:42 via abc.net.au
  
  Bathla Group owes known creditors about $3.4 billion, including $3.08 billion to secured lenders, according to preliminary figures presented at the company's first creditors' meeting.
  
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• NSW coalmining companies using planning 'loopholes' to avoid scrutiny

  04-09-2026 02:34 via abc.net.au
  
  More than a dozen coalmine modifications have been approved by the NSW government since 2023, with critics saying the process is a "loophole" that allows companies to expand operations without proper oversight.
  
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• NSW coalmining companies accused of using planning 'loopholes'

  04-09-2026 02:34 via abc.net.au
  
  More than a dozen coalmine modifications have been approved by the NSW government since 2023, with critics saying the process is a "loophole" that allows companies to expand operations without proper oversight.
  
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• 'Death by a thousand cuts' as mining companies use planning 'loophole'

  04-09-2026 02:34 via abc.net.au
  
  More than a dozen coalmine modifications have been approved by the NSW government since 2023, with critics saying the process is a "loophole" that allows companies to expand operations without proper oversight.
  
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• Americans urge caution as Australia braces for data centre boom

  04-09-2026 01:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Americans urge Australians to ensure data centre companies are transparent and make sure policy helps us to make the most of foreign investment.
  
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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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• 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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• 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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