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• Live export sector to pursue corporate deals to counter activism

  05-02-2021 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Amid an environment of corporate boycotts and divestment campaigns, livestock exporters are hoping to manage risk through a new corporate partnership.
  
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• Community, bargains and unique pieces draw people into charity shops

  05-02-2021 21:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Charity op shops have been experiencing strong sales since reopening after coronavirus shutdowns, with shoppers looking for bargains and unique fashion.
  
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• Australians to receive 'vaccine certificate' after COVID-19 jab, as new details on the 'enormous' rollout emerge

  05-02-2021 19:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians are likely to be told by their GP when it is their turn to get the COVID-19 vaccine and will receive an emailed vaccine certificate after receiving the jab, new details reveal.
  
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• A COVID-19 'vaccine certificate' part of rollout plan, as modelling suggests 200,000 jabs a day needed

  05-02-2021 19:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians are likely to be told by their GP when it is their turn to get the COVID-19 vaccine and will receive an emailed vaccine certificate after receiving the jab, new details reveal.
  
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• Sam Gannon passes away

  05-02-2021 11:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Prominent cricket player, sports administrator and business executive John B (Sam) Gannon has passed away at the age of 73.
  
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• Google opens paid-for Australia news platform aimed at undercutting content payment law

  05-02-2021 11:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Google launches a platform in Australia offering news it pays for after striking its own content deals with publishers. It's part of a drive to show that legislation to enforce payment for content is unnecessary.
  
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• Global growth plans augur well for WA

  05-02-2021 09:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The local property sector could be the beneficiary of financial stimulus measures in China and the US.
  
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• Byford rail fails study; $380m shortfall

  05-02-2021 08:18 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Byford rail extension failed a cost benefit analysis and was not endorsed by Infrastructure Australia, but the federal and state governments will push ahead nonetheless.
  
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• ASX closes higher, best in 13 weeks

  05-02-2021 08:15 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia's share market has closed higher in its strongest week in 13, as banks thrived after a Reserve Bank decision to extend bond-buying.
  
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• Mamba makes strong ASX debut

  05-02-2021 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Metals-focussed Mamba Exploration has had a strong start to trading, with its share price closing up 52 per cent ahead of a planned exploration program in Western Australia.
  
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• Government, Qantas bring nuclear medicine to Perth

  05-02-2021 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Government research organisation ANSTO, Qantas and Perth Children’s Hospital have synced their operations to bring a dose of Iodine 123 from Japan to the hospital today.
  
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• COVID-19 Wrap: Lockdown transition, cabinet meets

  05-02-2021 07:53 via businessnews.com.au
  
  In today's COVID-19 Wrap, Perth, Peel and South West regions prepare for life out of lockdown, the national cabinet meets to discuss hotel quarantine, and businesses compensated.
  
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• COVID-19 Wrap: Lockdown transition begins, national cabinet meets

  05-02-2021 07:53 via businessnews.com.au
  
  In today's COVID-19 Wrap, Perth, Peel and South West regions prepare for life out of lockdown, the national cabinet meets to discuss hotel quarantine, and opposition leader demands compensation for businesses.
  
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• Hotel quarantine, flight caps reviewed by cabinet

  05-02-2021 07:40 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The cap on international travellers, the efficacy of the hotel quarantine system and the ever-changing risks posed by the coronavirus were among the topics discussed at the national cabinet meeting.
  
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• Rio Tinto admits mistakes in managing relationship with Juukan Gorge traditional owners

  05-02-2021 07:30 via abc.net.au
  
  In a joint statement, Rio Tinto says the company made mistakes in communicating changes with the traditional owners of the Juukan Gorge heritage site.
  
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• Fringe restarts, Perth Festival postponed

  05-02-2021 07:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Fringe World Festival shows will begin from 7pm tonight while Perth Festival has been postponed another week, until February 15, under advice from the state government.
  
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• Enfield warning for Woodside

  05-02-2021 07:21 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The offshore oil and gas regulator has started a compliance action against Woodside for decommissioning issues at Enfield’s Nganhurra FPSO.
  
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• 'No justification': Report finds regional venues should have been exempt from lockdown

  05-02-2021 07:18 via abc.net.au
  
  The University of Adelaide has found regional pubs and hospitality venues should not have been forced to close during the state's 'circuit breaker' lockdown in November.
  
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• Business support falls short: Kirkup

  05-02-2021 06:59 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Liberal Party has criticised the state government’s $500 credit for small businesses affected by the five-day lockdown, saying it falls well short.
  
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• Australian faces up to 20 years in prison for cheating dozens of investors, including many in the United States

  05-02-2021 06:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Stefan He Qin allegedly drained almost all of the assets from the fund he owned, spending it on indulgences and speculative personal investments, and lying to investors about the performance of the fund.
  
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• Sale bells ringing in December data

  05-02-2021 06:23 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Retail sales were 14 per cent higher in WA in December than the same month in 2019, although they softened by 2 per cent compared to November.
  
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• Plans unveiled for world's biggest battery in the Hunter Valley

  05-02-2021 05:26 via abc.net.au
  
  A former NSW premier is behind a bid to set up a massive battery in a Hunter Valley town that could use an economic pick-me-up.
  
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• Swick in setback over demerger delay

  05-02-2021 05:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Swick Mining Services has postponed the demerger of its mineral technology business, Orexplore, resulting in the abrupt resignation of the subsidiary’s managing director.
  
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• No new cases, lockdown to end

  05-02-2021 04:51 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Premier Mark McGowan has confirmed that the state has not recorded any new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 overnight, giving the greenlight to transition out of the five-day lockdown.
  
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• 'We have no option': Kirin, parent company of Australian beer company Lion, cuts ties with Myanmar military

  05-02-2021 04:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Human rights groups welcome the move, but some asked why it took a coup to cut ties when the military had already been accused of genocide against the Rohingya.
  
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• Beer company behind brands like Tooheys, XXXX and Little Creatures cuts ties with Myanmar military

  05-02-2021 04:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Human rights groups welcome the move, but some asked why it took a coup to cut ties when the military had already been accused of genocide against the Rohingya.
  
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• Rio concedes after scathing letter

  05-02-2021 04:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Mining giant Rio Tinto has taken the extraordinary step of publicly acknowledging it should have communicated recent executive changes to the PKKP people in a more collaborative way.
  
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• Rio awards heritage management contract

  05-02-2021 04:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Rio Tinto has contracted listed software business K2fly to provide a new heritage management system within the Pilbara miner's iron ore division.
  
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• ARTS REVIEW - Rules of Summer

  05-02-2021 04:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Shaun Tan mines his own childhood story of endless summer days in his exhibition, "Rules of Summer".
  
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• Wages freeze could chill Australia’s amazing COVID recovery, RBA warns

  05-02-2021 03:01 via abc.net.au
  
  The Reserve Bank continues to be surprised by the strength of Australia's economic bounce back from COVID-19, but warns that weak wages growth risks being baked in by public and private sector wage freezes, threatening a sustainable recovery.
  
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• RBA should not target housing: Lowe

  05-02-2021 03:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe says the central bank "does not and should not" target housing prices.
  
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• Scammers steal WA Attorney-General's identity for multi-million dollar beneficiary hoax

  05-02-2021 02:57 via abc.net.au
  
  A fake website with the name and photo of Western Australian Attorney-General John Quigley claimed he was acting as lawyer for a deceased person who had left $4.3 million in a bank account.
  
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• Authorities warn of scams targeting WA bushfire emergency victims

  05-02-2021 02:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Consumer Protection is warning of a charity scams collecting money to donate to bushfire victims as well as one stealing the identity of WA's Attorney General.
  
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• SA to ban offensive slogans on vehicles, including Wicked Campers

  05-02-2021 02:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Laws targeting "crude" and "offensive" slogans on vehicles, such as those on Wicked Campers, look set to pass South Australia's Parliament.
  
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• States up pressure on hotel alternatives

  05-02-2021 02:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Scott Morrison is under increasing pressure from the states to find alternatives to hotel quarantine after multiple breaches triggered coronavirus scares.
  
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• Perth Markets hungry for growth

  05-02-2021 02:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Western Australia’s oldest fresh food markets has welcomed tenants to its new $8.4 million building, part of a 20-year masterplan for the 51-hectare Canning Vale property.
  
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• Australia raises international arrival cap

  05-02-2021 02:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  UPDATED: More stranded Australians will be able to return home from later in the month when international arrivals caps are returned to higher levels.
  
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• Sunshine State feels squeeze of 'absurd' real estate market amid COVID mass migration

  05-02-2021 01:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Last year the rate of migration to Queensland was 90 per cent above the decade average; that, paired with thousands of returning expats, has created a lucrative regional housing market.
  
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• 'Absurd' growth: Sunshine state feels the squeeze of the COVID mass migration

  05-02-2021 01:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Last year the rate of migration to Queensland was 90 per cent above the decade average; that, paired with thousands of returning expats, has created a lucrative regional housing market.
  
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• Mining company Bravus (formerly Adani) accused of environmental breaches

  05-02-2021 01:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Environmentalists file a complaint alleging the company has failed to properly manage erosion at its inland rail project.
  
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• Virus vaccine approvals take centre stage

  05-02-2021 01:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia's approval process for the coronavirus vaccine will take centre stage at a parliamentary inquiry.
  
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• Indigenous business pioneer Tucker hits milestone

  05-02-2021 01:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Carey Mining was one of the first private Aboriginal contractors to be established in Australia and it’s still going strong.
  
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