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• Hopes for renewed Australian helium production after SA extraction

  30-07-2026 09:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Helium has been produced in Australia for the first time since 2023, on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.
  
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• Live: ASX to open higher as bond yields continue to rise

  05-10-2026 22:39 via abc.net.au
  
  The Aussie share market is set to open in the green, following gains across all Wall Street exchanges. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Concerns as new $1.2b recycling facility will service data centres

  05-10-2026 21:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Western Sydney's Kemps Creek facility announced the treatment centre would now factor water needed to service NSW data centres.
  
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• Jobseekers exploited by scammers on LinkedIn

  05-10-2026 20:33 via abc.net.au
  
  Sophisticated fraudsters posing as recruiters and using other dubious tactics are taking advantage of desperate jobseekers after announcing they're #opentowork.
  
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• Greens think tank wants public supermarkets to challenge 'duopoly'

  05-10-2026 20:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Taking inspiration from New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, "Fair Go Grocers" public supermarkets would offer essential goods at a discount and act as a competitor to drive down prices at Coles and Woolworths.
  
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• They built a business empire to cash in on veterans. It's made millions

  05-10-2026 20:25 via abc.net.au
  
  The companies in the VBA network have made millions turning veterans into valuable sales leads on an industrial scale. 
  
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• They built a business empire that cashes in on veterans. It's made millions

  05-10-2026 20:25 via abc.net.au
  
  The companies in the VBA network have made millions turning veterans into valuable sales leads on an industrial scale. 
  
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• WA premier backflips on desalination plant amid $543m pipeline upgrade

  05-10-2026 09:18 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA government is weighing up future plans for a desalination plant in Esperance as work on a $543 million upgrade to the historic Goldfields water pipeline ramps up.
  
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• Property downturn worsens with less than 50pc of auctions leading to a sale

  05-10-2026 03:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's auction clearance rate has slumped to a three-month low, while new data shows the number of unsold homes has surged by more than 20 per cent in the past year.
  
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• Auction clearance rate sinks to three-month low as property market slows

  05-10-2026 03:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's auction clearance rate has slumped to a three-month low, while new data shows the number of unsold homes has surged by more than 20 per cent in the past year.
  
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• Residents fear there is no stopping $32b hyperscale data centre

  04-10-2026 22:33 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthropic has already signed a deal to use a portion of the facility earmarked for the Western Downs, but it has not actually been approved yet
  
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• ASX edges higher supported by miners, housing market weakens as auction clearance rates fall — as it happened

  04-10-2026 22:09 via abc.net.au
  
  The ASX wilted across the session to close marginally higher thanks to buying in banking and healthcare stocks. 
  
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• Short-stay operators have mixed reactions to SA's register proposal

  04-10-2026 21:45 via abc.net.au
  
  The scheme is still being shaped but some operators are raising concerns about security and giving local governments control over land use and deciding rates.
  
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• Small farmers at mercy of supermarket giants, seller says

  04-10-2026 20:53 via abc.net.au
  
  A small-scale banana farmer who has had his agreement with Coles ended due to the supermarket giant simplifying its supply chain says the move signals the end of small-scale farms across the country.
  
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• Are Coles and Woolworths centralising their supply chains? Some experts think so

  04-10-2026 20:53 via abc.net.au
  
  A small-scale banana farmer who has had his agreement with Coles ended due to the supermarket giant simplifying its supply chain says the move signals the end of small-scale farms across the country.
  
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• Australia's fossil fuel expansion 'slap in the face' to Pacific nations

  04-10-2026 20:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's climate credentials will be under the spotlight at pre-COP talks in Fiji with a major coal mine expansion approved just days prior.
  
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• 'Debris field' found in search for missing medical flight from Bermuda

  04-10-2026 06:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Air traffic audio indicates the aircraft may have been "coming in blind" amid a storm.
  
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• Regional audiences to lose Network 10, as licensee warns of TV's future

  04-10-2026 03:29 via abc.net.au
  
  After a three-month reprieve, WIN confirms Network 10 will go from Mount Gambier, the Riverland and Griffith.
  
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• Houthis target Saudi oil facility as hostilities escalate in Yemen

  04-10-2026 00:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis say they targeted a Saudi Arabian oil company in retaliation for Saudi attacks on Yemen.
  
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• SA's first musical theatre company brings talent home in debut stage

  03-10-2026 22:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Performers like Joey Haenen and Jazz Garcia who sought opportunities on the east coast are returning to Adelaide in Full Circle's debut production of SA's first musical theatre company.
  
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• 'Flying boat' history behind Sydney's first international airport

  03-10-2026 22:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Before the new Western Sydney International Airport and the terminal at Mascot, there was Rose Bay in Sydney's east, which had a golden age of aviation via flying boats.
  
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• When a bushfire comes, what happens if the phones go dead?

  03-10-2026 20:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The Black Summer bushfires cut people off from warnings, rescue and each other when mobile phones failed. How can we stay safe when telecommunications goes dark?
  
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• One community's bushfire plan could be a 'gamechanger' in emergencies

  03-10-2026 20:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The Black Summer bushfires cut people off from warnings, rescue and each other when mobile phones failed. How can we stay safe when telecommunications goes dark?
  
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• Can you really rely on your phone to save you in a bushfire?

  03-10-2026 20:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The Black Summer bushfires cut people off from warnings, rescue and each other when mobile phones failed. How can we stay safe when telecommunications go dark?
  
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• Verity is the latest Colleen Hoover novel to get a film adaptation

  03-10-2026 07:00 via abc.net.au
  
  From Misery to Yellowface, books and films about writers are favourites among the authors who pen them, but audiences love them too. Enter Verity, the latest film adapted from a Colleen Hoover novel.
  
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• Complaint over senior NT public servant who ran private NDIS provider

  03-10-2026 00:49 via abc.net.au
  
  A senior staffer with the Northern Territory's Department of Children and Families in Central Australia spent almost three years as the sole director of a private NDIS provider in Alice Springs.
  
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• Golf club spends $30k on water changes, only for policy to change

  03-10-2026 00:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Tasmanian businesses and sporting clubs faced significant water charge increases after a TasWater policy change. Some spent big on new infrastructure in response, but the policy was then watered down.
  
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• Fishers warn snapper, kingfish prices could soar under proposed catch limits

  02-10-2026 23:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Fishers and seafood retailers say proposed NSW limits designed to rebuild snapper and yellowtail kingfish stocks will send prices soaring.
  
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• One Nation makes election promise to revive Victoria's timber sector

  02-10-2026 23:16 via abc.net.au
  
  One Nation has promised to resume native timber logging in Victoria if it wins the state election, but the party would not say if it has costed the policy. 
  
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• Qld government rejects petition to change stop signs to give way

  02-10-2026 23:07 via abc.net.au
  
  The petition argued "requiring vehicles to come to a complete stop is almost always of no safety significance".
  
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