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• 'Incredibly restrictive': Some independent craft brewers disappointed with Queensland's proposed changes to liquor laws

  19-02-2021 23:17 via abc.net.au
  
  The Queensland government is poised to amend liquor laws to create a new licence for craft brewers and small distillers, although the final product is not to everyone's taste.
  
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• 'It's pretty crap actually': Rock lobster fishers battling to survive China trade dispute

  19-02-2021 22:21 via abc.net.au
  
  As the price per kilo for lobster plunges from $100 to $30, producers are struggling to survive the loss of the lucrative Chinese export market.
  
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• China might not be buying, but Australia's cotton industry is looking much better in 2021

  19-02-2021 21:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Early estimates suggest Australia's cotton crop will be four times larger than last year's and worth about $1.5 billion — a noticeable comeback for the industry, which has struggled through drought and trade tensions.
  
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• Stockland takes top prize

  19-02-2021 17:47 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Amberton Coastal Precinct by Stockland was named overall winner at the latest instalment of the Urban Development Institute of Australia WA Awards for Excellence.
  
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• Tianqi dispute returns to court

  19-02-2021 08:27 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state’s Supreme Court has ruled that Chinese-owned Tianqi Lithium should have to repay its $35.8 million debt to Perth-based engineering consultancy MSP Engineering.
  
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• Distilleries unite to lower spirits tax

  19-02-2021 08:19 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth distilleries, including Whipper Snapper Distillery and Sin Gin Distillery, are lobbying the government to reduce taxes on spirits, which they claim are stunting industry growth.
  
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• Distilleries unite against spirits taxes

  19-02-2021 08:19 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth distilleries, including Whipper Snapper Distillery and Sin Gin Distillery, are lobbying the government to reduce taxes on spirits, which they claim are stunting industry growth.
  
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• Kevin Rudd calls for Australians to resist the Murdoch media empire 'culture of fear'

  19-02-2021 08:02 via abc.net.au
  
  News Corp Australia denies making and breaking prime ministers, having "racism as a business model" and running campaigns of "character assassination", during a parliamentary inquiry into media diversity.
  
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• Liberal staffer takes assault complaint to police

  19-02-2021 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins, who says she was sexually assaulted by a male colleague inside Parliament House, will proceed with a formal complaint to police.
  
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• Former Libs staffer takes assault complaint to police

  19-02-2021 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A former Liberal staffer who says she was sexually assaulted by a male colleague inside Parliament House will proceed with a formal complaint to police.
  
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• ASX down 1.34%, worst fall in three weeks

  19-02-2021 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia's share market had its biggest fall in more than three weeks, set in train from the US where worries continued over a struggling economy and inflation expectations.
  
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• Shipping service to cut road freight

  19-02-2021 07:47 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Rio Tinto is aiming to shift half its freight movements into the Pilbara from road to sea, after it backed the launch of a third shipping service into WA’s mining hub.
  
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• Woodside CEO slammed for 'cynical' move to press ahead with Myanmar energy projects after coup

  19-02-2021 07:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Human Rights Watch accuses the Australian energy giant of sitting back and hedging its bets in its own self-interest instead of joining several Western governments in condemning the junta and its coup.
  
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• All eyes on rates amid global debt mountain

  19-02-2021 07:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Cheap money can’t last forever, and many are unprepared for the day interest rates head upwards.
  
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• 'This situation is quite different': Facebook's news ban hits media's website traffic by 13 per cent

  19-02-2021 06:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Traffic to Australian news websites fell in the hours following Facebook's news ban and audiences overall have not shifted to new platforms, according to data from web analytics company Chartbeat.
  
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• Facebook ban hits news website traffic by 13 per cent

  19-02-2021 06:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Traffic to Australian news websites fell in the hours following Facebook's news ban and audiences overall have not shifted to new platforms, according to data from web analytics company Chartbeat.
  
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• Woodside in new LNG deal

  19-02-2021 06:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Oil and gas major Woodside Petroleum has secured another long-term sale for its Scarborough LNG project with a German customer.
  
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• Short-term lender protests credit changes

  19-02-2021 05:33 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia’s largest short-term lender has launched a nation-wide campaign to have changes proposed under a major overhaul of the National Consumer Credit Protection Act scrapped.
  
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• Retail spending rises 0.6% in January

  19-02-2021 05:09 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Relatively high confidence among shoppers and the continued drop in the unemployment rate saw modest retail spending growth in the first few weeks of 2021.
  
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• What started as a patient wait for two Australians to return home turned into a 'cruel' experience

  19-02-2021 04:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Victorians' fourth attempt to negotiate pandemic travel restrictions sends them, homeless and jobless, from one dire situation into another.
  
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• From UK hotspot to Texas ice storm, Australian couple's desperate bid to find a way home

  19-02-2021 04:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Victorians' fourth attempt to negotiate pandemic travel restrictions sends them, homeless and jobless, from one dire situation into another.
  
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• 'Very possible' jabs may open borders: PM

  19-02-2021 04:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Scott Morrison has raised hopes international borders could reopen once coronavirus vaccinations have been widely delivered.
  
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• Vaccines a sign of hope for desperate tourism operators as theme parks reduce opening hours

  19-02-2021 03:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Tourism bosses on the Gold Coast say Monday's coronavirus vaccine roll-out is a "light at the end of the tunnel" for struggling operators.
  
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• QBE reports $US1.5bn loss

  19-02-2021 03:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Insurer QBE has elected not to declare a final dividend, recording a statutory net loss after tax of $US1.5 billion ($A1.93 billion) following last year's $US550 million profit.
  
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• Bumper Christmas 2020 for charities

  19-02-2021 02:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Last December proved to be a positive time for health and disaster relief charities, which collected more donations than in previous years.
  
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• Treasurer tries again with Facebook boss

  19-02-2021 01:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Treasurer Josh Frydenberg remains determined to convince Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to accept the Australian government's media bargaining code.
  
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• Interest grows in city-fringe commercial property

  19-02-2021 01:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Emerging interest in commercial property in and around the western suburbs has resulted in several sales, collectively worth more than $10 million.
  
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