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• 'I've learnt to respect chefs': Queensland food photographer ranks in world's top 10

  09-02-2021 23:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Queensland photographer Paul Williams has been named Australia's top food photographer and gets to spend his work days taking photos of chef-quality food. He shares his tricks of the trade to get the perfect shot.
  
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• Sheffield signs deal at Stirling Street

  09-02-2021 23:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Department of Communities has secured almost 8,000 square metres of space at 130 Stirling Street, in a 10-year leasing deal brokered by Sheffield Property.
  
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• Major construction boom sees Brisbane city traffic worsen

  09-02-2021 22:24 via abc.net.au
  
  With a dozen major construction projects underway in Brisbane, the city council worries congestion will worsen.
  
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• CBA profit drops 21pc, but the signs are good for a quick post-COVID bounce back

  09-02-2021 22:14 via abc.net.au
  
  The Commonwealth Bank records a 21 per cent drop in its net profit in the wake of Australia's first recession in almost three decades, but more than 80 per cent of customers who were on home loan deferrals have resumed repayments.
  
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• CBA profit drops 21pc after COVID-19 recession, low interest rates hit margins

  09-02-2021 22:14 via abc.net.au
  
  The Commonwealth Bank records a 21 per cent drop in its net profit in the wake of Australia's first recession in almost three decades.
  
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• CBA profit beats expectations on Australian economy's 'remarkable achievement'

  09-02-2021 22:14 via abc.net.au
  
  The Commonwealth Bank records a 21 per cent drop in its net profit in the wake of Australia's first recession in almost three decades, but its result beat expectations as it capitalises on a shallower downturn and faster economic recovery than initially feared.
  
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• Almost one Australian every minute is asking NBN Co for a fibre internet upgrade, but soon some will get it for free

  09-02-2021 21:55 via abc.net.au
  
  Eight thousand Australians in the past week alone have sought quotes from NBN Co for a fibre upgrade. But waiting longer could mean getting a fibre upgrade for free.
  
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• 'Half the volume of Sydney Harbour': Bid for massive desert water permit raises doubts

  09-02-2021 21:49 via abc.net.au
  
  An application to use 40,000 megalitres of water a year for a major fruit and vegetable project in Central Australia draws concern from stakeholders, with one urging the NT Government to heed the lessons of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
  
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• Bitcoin surges to another record high; ASX to rise as global market rally slows down

  09-02-2021 21:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares are expected to rise in early trade as bitcoin hit another record high (above $US48,000) and Wall Street took a breather after rising sharply for several days.
  
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• Bitcoin surges to another record high; ASX rises as global market rally slows down

  09-02-2021 21:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares have lifted in early trade as bitcoin hit another record high (above $US48,000) and Wall Street took a breather after rising sharply for several days.
  
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• Bitcoin climbs above $US48,000; ASX to rise as global market rally slows down

  09-02-2021 21:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares are expected to rise in early trade as bitcoin hit another record high (above $US48,000) and Wall Street took a breather after rising sharply for several days.
  
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• Live: NSW Now: Day 16 COVID-19 case spent three hours in cafe while awaiting test results, NSW Health say

  09-02-2021 21:09 via abc.net.au
  
  MORNING BRIEFING: The returned traveller had tested negative twice, but sought a third test after they left hotel quarantine and received the positive result on Saturday evening — several hours after they visited Bulli Beach Cafe.
  
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• Live: NSW Now: COVID-19 alert for travellers returning from Melbourne after three cases confirmed

  09-02-2021 21:09 via abc.net.au
  
  MORNING BRIEFING: Anyone who visited the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport is urged to seek a COVID-19 test and isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result.
  
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• High-rolling Barangaroo casino could convert to 'prestige' luxury apartments

  09-02-2021 20:21 via abc.net.au
  
  As the aspirations of Crown's high roller casino at Barangaroo suffer a major blow, experts predict the luxury space could end up as residential apartments.
  
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• 'All bets are off': NSW Premier backs scathing Crown report

  09-02-2021 20:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Gladys Berejiklian warns Crown Resorts "all bets are off" at its Sydney casino, if her state's gaming regulator adopts the findings from a scathing report released yesterday.
  
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• Albanese to pledge help for insecure workers as Labor stakes out workplace battleground

  09-02-2021 12:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese will seek to make the next election a fight about insecure work rather than a referendum on the Government's coronavirus response.
  
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• Motown trailblazer and Supremes co-founder Mary Wilson dies aged 76

  09-02-2021 10:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Mary Wilson, the longest-reigning original member of The Supremes, a group that recorded hits such as You Can't Hurry Love and Stop! In the Name of Love, has died in her Las Vegas home.
  
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• Increase JobSeeker to pension rate: ACOSS

  09-02-2021 10:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia's peak welfare group wants unemployment support payments to be raised in line with the pension, to prevent people from entering poverty.
  
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• Strong criticism of Crown’s WA execs

  09-02-2021 08:55 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The NSW inquiry into Crown Resorts has made scathing assessments of its key WA executives but director John Poynton has emerged with his reputation intact.
  
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• Argonaut launches bushfire relief initiatives

  09-02-2021 08:41 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Stock broking advisory Argonaut has launched a two-pronged campaign to assist victims of the Wooroloo bushfire, donating 250 tonnes of hay and establishing the Brokerage for Bushfire Relief initiative.
  
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• ASX closes 0.86% lower, all sectors down

  09-02-2021 08:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Investors have suffered broad-based losses on the Australian share market ahead of keenly anticipated economic forecasts in Commonwealth Bank's first-half earnings on Wednesday.
  
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• 'Maybe people do want a shopfront': Town bucks pandemic online shopping trend

  09-02-2021 08:23 via abc.net.au
  
  At a time when online sales are booming, one Riverland town has bucked the trend and welcomed 20 new bricks and mortar businesses within the past 12 months.
  
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• Labor believes election is done and dusted: Kirkup

  09-02-2021 08:15 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Opposition leader Zak Kirkup has called on the WA Labor Party to stand up and contest the state election, claiming the party believes the March poll to be done and dusted.
  
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• Veris wins Fortescue contract

  09-02-2021 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The telecommunications arm of ASX-listed Veris has secured its second contract from Fortescue Metals Group in recent months, for work at the Pilbara miner’s Kangi accommodation village.
  
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• Crown 'not suitable' for casino licence

  09-02-2021 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Casino giant Crown Resorts is not fit to run its $2.2 billion Sydney casino because it facilitated money laundering and has other "deep" problems, a highly anticipated report has found.
  
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• ANZ pulls funding from Newcastle port, the largest thermal coal terminal in the world, due to climate risk

  09-02-2021 07:36 via abc.net.au
  
  The ANZ bank has pulled nearly $1 billion funding in Port of Newcastle, interpreted as a significant rebuke of coal and its fear of shareholders' exposure to climate risk.
  
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• No new cases, 72,000 tests conducted

  09-02-2021 07:32 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state has recorded its ninth consecutive day with no new locally acquired cases of COVID-19, according to Premier Mark McGowan.
  
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• Zempilas on rates: "Nothing is off the table"

  09-02-2021 07:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Basil Zempilas has reiterated support for reviewing Perth’s rates structure as new data showed WA’s office occupancy declining on the back of the state’s five-day lockdown.
  
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• 'Nothing is off the table' regarding rates, Zempilas

  09-02-2021 07:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Basil Zempilas has reiterated support for reviewing Perth’s rates structure, as new data showed WA’s office occupancy declining on the back of the state’s five-day lockdown.
  
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• Labor cottons on to dam value

  09-02-2021 07:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Ahead of its time or white elephant? Time might ultimately determine which is true for the Ord River Dam.
  
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• Kangaroo Island eco-pod proposal finds common ground, but was there any choice?

  09-02-2021 06:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Controversial hiker's accommodation will be built in a Kangaroo Island national park after a court case was resolved with a compromise.
  
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• $30m revamp for Maylands theatre site

  09-02-2021 06:24 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A $30 million plan to build a seven-storey apartment building and five retail venues on the site of Maylands’ 100-year-old Lyric Lane Theatre has been given the green light today.
  
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• $14.5m revamp for Maylands theatre site

  09-02-2021 06:24 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A $14.5 million plan to build a seven-storey apartment building and five retail venues on the site of Maylands’ 100-year-old Lyric Lane Theatre has been given the green light today.
  
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• $14.5m revamp for 100-year-old theatre site

  09-02-2021 06:24 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A $14.5 million plan to build a seven-storey apartment building and five retail venues at the site of Maylands’ 100-year-old Lyric Lane Theatre has been given the green light today.
  
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• Support group to aid WA bushfire recovery

  09-02-2021 06:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A State Recovery Coordination Group has been established to help people impacted by last week's devastating bushfire in Perth's north-east.
  
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• Crown Resorts not suitable to operate Sydney casino, inquiry finds

  09-02-2021 05:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Crown Resorts is deemed unsuitable to operate a new Sydney casino at Barangaroo after a months-long public inquiry which exposed allegations of money laundering.
  
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• Casino in $2.2b Sydney skyscraper may never open after Crown deemed unsuitable for licence

  09-02-2021 05:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Crown Resorts is deemed unsuitable to operate a new Sydney casino at Barangaroo after a months-long public inquiry which exposed allegations of money laundering.
  
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• Emeco shares drop on first-half results

  09-02-2021 05:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Emeco Holdings has reported a dramatic drop in first-half profit to just $3.3 million on account of weakened coal conditions in the eastern states, despite growing its revenue.
  
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• 'The Boss' doesn't do ads. Now his first Super Bowl spot has attracted critics

  09-02-2021 05:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Bruce Springsteen is lending his name to a product, in the iconic musician's first big-time commercial. So why has the ad drawn criticism?
  
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• Who are the winners and losers of the ACT Budget?

  09-02-2021 05:10 via abc.net.au
  
  ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr hands down his first budget of the coronavirus era. Here's what's new, and who stands to benefit.
  
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• It’s not the end of capitalism

  09-02-2021 05:05 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Finance professor Ray Da Silva Rosa writes the most surprising aspect of GameStop is how many seasoned commentators have reported it as a new development that threatens the foundations of capitalism.
  
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• GameStop: Enough with the “End of Capitalism” Commentary

  09-02-2021 05:05 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Finance professor Ray Da Silva Rosa writes the most surprising aspect of GameStop is how many seasoned commentators have reported it as a new development that threatens the foundations of capitalism.
  
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• EPA to assess north-west fracking plan

  09-02-2021 04:05 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The EPA will undertake a full-scale public environmental review of Bennett Resources’ fracking proposal in the West Kimberley after receiving more than 450 submissions.
  
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• Suncorp profit up, drops travel insurance

  09-02-2021 04:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Suncorp will stop underwriting travel insurance for Australians in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic to focus on its bigger core operations.
  
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• O’Sullivan Partners to merge with Panetta McGrath Lawyers

  09-02-2021 03:03 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Subiaco-based firm O’Sullivan Partners' four staff will join the ranks at Panetta McGrath Lawyers when the firms merge in April.
  
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• O’Sullivan Partners joins Panetta McGrath Lawyers

  09-02-2021 03:03 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Subiaco-based insurance lawyers O’Sullivan Partners has announced it is merging with boutique West Perth firm Panetta McGrath Lawyers.
  
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• Lockdown hits spending

  09-02-2021 02:49 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Credit and debit card data has given an early indicator of how last week’s lockdown influenced spending in Western Australia, down 3.3 per cent against the same week in 2020.
  
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• 'It's not just hippy': Welcome to the house made from hemp

  09-02-2021 02:02 via abc.net.au
  
  When environmental scientist Alexia Jankowski and her partner wanted to build a low-impact house in the hills, they turned to hemp — and say more people should consider using it.
  
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• Retailers push for workplace reform change

  09-02-2021 02:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Employers would be able to offer extra shifts without penalties to part-time workers doing eight hours a day under a proposal from retailers.
  
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• Remodelling White Ribbon

  09-02-2021 01:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Major charitable group Communicare is recalibrating the White Ribbon Australia brand.
  
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