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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Unions and Inpex reach deal after weeks of strikes and negotiation

  17-06-2026 03:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Workers at the Northern Territory's Inpex Ichthys facility have restarted regular duties after unions and the Japanese-owned company struck a deal to end a dispute that threatened to disrupt LNG exports.
  
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• ASIC launches Zone RV criminal investigation over caravan company's collapse

  17-06-2026 02:27 via abc.net.au
  
  The former director of Zone RV faces a criminal probe into allegations he acted recklessly or dishonestly before the manufacturer collapsed with debts of $42 million.
  
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• WA rail union pushes back on proposal for safety lights on trains

  17-06-2026 01:02 via abc.net.au
  
  The state's union for train drivers says a draft bill mandating more lights on trains is "fundamentally flawed" and would not fix motorists' behaviour at level crossings.
  
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• ASX up, oil plunges to three-month low while SpaceX becomes fifth-biggest US company — as it happened

  17-06-2026 00:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Oil prices sink to a three-month low on reports the US will allow Iran to start selling oil again, while the Australian share market edges up after a sell-off across Wall Street's tech and AI stocks.
  
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• Farmer fertiliser hope as Iran ceasefire promises to reopen supply

  16-06-2026 23:55 via abc.net.au
  
  Farmers are hoping the US-Iran deal will help free up fertiliser supply and lower costs during the winter cropping season.
  
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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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• Government to extend pay subsidy to avoid childcare worker walk-off

  16-06-2026 22:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Early educators had threatened to walk off the job to keep a federally funded 15 per cent pay subsidy due to end in November.
  
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