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• 'We've done nothing wrong': Firearms shop's gun laws plea after $800k loss

  23-09-2026 08:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Family-run firearms businesses say they are copping the brunt of the Minns government's post-Bondi gun laws, with some forced to sell their homes and dip into their retirement nest eggs.
  
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• AI data centre company starts development work without a permit

  26-09-2026 00:25 via abc.net.au
  
  The Latrobe Council says it's concerned Firmus Technologies appears to have conducted illegal works on the site of its yet-to-be-approved project in Tasmania.
  
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• A cash comeback? Shops navigate looming death of card surcharges

  25-09-2026 22:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Paying by card is a convenient and hugely popular option for most Australians, but surcharges cost small businesses thousands in fees each year. While many stores pass card fees directly onto shoppers, the RBA is set to change this from October 1.
  
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• Three decades of work to restore one of Australia's most degraded catchments

  25-09-2026 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Community effort transforms a degraded waterway, reducing erosion, increasing fish breeding and improving the quality of water that flows into the Great Barrier Reef. 
  
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• Mary River proves Australia's most degraded catchments can be restored

  25-09-2026 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Community effort transforms a degraded waterway, reducing erosion, increasing fish breeding and improving the quality of water that flows into the Great Barrier Reef. 
  
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• Bungled Sydney Water payroll rollout leaves workers underpaid

  25-09-2026 07:53 via abc.net.au
  
  Three unions have voted for work stoppages and work bans after a new payroll system has been routinely paying employees incorrectly or late since July.
  
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• Viral squishy toy trend putting children in hospital with burns

  25-09-2026 02:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Squishy toys are a must-have for many kids, but dangerous counterfeits are entering the market, with a social media trend causing severe burns. 
  
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• Customers say Qantas not being 'fair dinkum' on costly outback flights

  25-09-2026 01:26 via abc.net.au
  
  Customers say the cost of regional airfares remains unreasonable, and the high prices could be sending domestic tourists overseas.
  
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• Delvene Delaney returns to Kakadu 40 years after Crocodile Dundee

  25-09-2026 00:55 via abc.net.au
  
  The last time Delvene Delaney visited Kakadu was during the filming of Crocodile Dundee and its sequel Crocodile Dundee II — both co-written and produced by her late husband John Cornell. That was 40 years ago, and now she's returned to reminisce. 
  
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• Site renowned for helping build Sydney Harbour Bridge in $1b energy showdown

  25-09-2026 00:00 via abc.net.au
  
  The proponents of a $1 billion waste processing facility near Mudgee are preparing for a battle with the NSW government over its energy-from-waste framework, as locals are divided.
  
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• Live: Warning petrol price could soar above $2.70 per litre

  24-09-2026 23:34 via abc.net.au
  
  A leading economist has warned the price of unleaded petrol could be headed above $2.70/litre. Meanwhile, the share market is in negative territory as a global bond sell-off deepens. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.
  
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• Live: Bond market turmoil deepens

  24-09-2026 23:34 via abc.net.au
  
  The share market is in negative territory as a global bond sell-off deepens, with US yields hitting multi-decade highs as oil and inflation fears build. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.
  
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• Live: ASX to fall as bond market turmoil deepens, oil jumps

  24-09-2026 23:34 via abc.net.au
  
  The ASX is set to fall as a global bond sell-off deepens, with US yields hitting multi-decade highs as oil and inflation fears build. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: ASX down as bond market turmoil deepens, oil jumps

  24-09-2026 23:34 via abc.net.au
  
  The ASX opens the day lower as a global bond sell-off deepens, with US yields hitting multi-decade highs as oil and inflation fears building. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• As it happened: Warning petrol price could soar above $2.70 per litre

  24-09-2026 23:34 via abc.net.au
  
  A leading economist has warned the price of unleaded petrol could be headed above $2.70/litre. Meanwhile, the share market closed the week in negative territory as a global bond sell-off deepened. 
  
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• Pomp and ceremony mask tensions as Trump hosts Xi at White House — as it happened

  24-09-2026 23:23 via abc.net.au
  
  China said the pair agreed to back each other's hosting of APEC in Shenzhen and the G20 in Miami later this year, but there were no announcements of further agreements. Take a look back at how the day unfolded.
  
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• Fiji's HIV epidemic is surging and babies are paying the price

  24-09-2026 23:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Fiji has free testing and treatment to prevent mothers passing HIV to their babies. Last year, 59 babies were infected anyway, and 18 died before they turned one.
  
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• NSW Planning fails to consult key agencies over data centre gas plant

  24-09-2026 22:02 via abc.net.au
  
  The NSW Department of Planning has admitted it made an error when it skipped consultation with key agencies regarding a proposal for a major gas plant to power data centres.
  
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• Data centre gas plant consultation skipped after legal threat, staffer says

  24-09-2026 22:02 via abc.net.au
  
  The NSW Department of Planning has admitted it made an error when it skipped consultation with key agencies regarding a proposal for a major gas plant to power data centres.
  
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• Has the RBA already wiped out the home ownership gains from tax changes?

  24-09-2026 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Each standard interest rate increase could be locking close to 30,000 households out of home ownership, some of them for a decade or more.
  
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• Each rate rise locking aspiring homebuyers out for a decade, study finds

  24-09-2026 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Each standard interest rate increase could be locking close to 30,000 households out of home ownership, some of them for a decade or more.
  
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• As fuel costs escalate again, regional Australia is hurting

  24-09-2026 21:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Regional industries and communities are feeling a "disproportionate impact"  of rising bowser prices, a policy expert says.  
  
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• Scientists probe connection between deadly frog disease and coal wastewater

  24-09-2026 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  A study on the impact of chytrid fungus disease in Royal National Park frogs raises questions about regulation of coalmine wastewater.
  
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• When people prefer error-laden emails, AI has a trust problem

  24-09-2026 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians are the most sceptical in the world about AI. Overseas, it's a different story. 
  
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• The strange new reality of living in an AI world that we never asked for

  24-09-2026 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians are the most sceptical in the world about AI. Overseas, it's a different story. 
  
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• The strange new reality of living in an AI world that nobody asked for

  24-09-2026 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians are the most sceptical in the world about AI. Overseas, it's a different story. 
  
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• 'Forced down our throats': Why Australians are the world's biggest AI sceptics

  24-09-2026 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians are the most sceptical in the world about AI. Overseas, it's a different story. 
  
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• 'Forced down our throats': Most of us never chose an AI world. Yet here we are

  24-09-2026 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians are the most sceptical in the world about AI. Overseas, it's a different story. 
  
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• Australia vows AI guardrails after unprecedented OpenAI breach

  24-09-2026 20:35 via abc.net.au
  
  OpenAI's delayed reporting of an autonomous agent breaching a government website has strengthened Australia's push for tougher AI safety and disclosure rules. 
  
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• Australia to pursue AI guardrails after unprecedented OpenAI breach

  24-09-2026 20:35 via abc.net.au
  
  OpenAI's delayed reporting of an autonomous agent breaching a government website has strengthened Australia's push for tougher AI safety and disclosure rules. 
  
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