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• Australian shares fall despite record iron ore prices; Afterpay ponders US listing

  19-04-2021 23:15 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market is down despite iron ore prices reaching record highs in Australian dollar terms. Afterpay announces it is considering a US share listing.
  
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• Australian shares fall as Wall Street drops from record highs

  19-04-2021 23:15 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian market is down as Wall Street drops from its record highs, weighed down by tech stocks and Tesla after a fatal crash involving a driverless car.
  
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• ASX set to slip as Wall Street drops from record levels

  19-04-2021 23:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Wall Street drops from its record highs, weighed down by tech stocks and Tesla after a fatal crash involving a driverless car, while the Australian market is set to open lower.
  
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• Live: NSW Now: Melissa Hunt murder investigation resumes, John Sidoti to front ICAC

  19-04-2021 22:44 via abc.net.au
  
  MORNING BRIEFING: A police search will resume today, investigating the unsolved murder of Melissa Hunt in the NSW Hunter region in 1994, NSW MP John Sidoti expected to front ICAC inquiry.
  
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• Australians want to buy electric cars — but there's something stopping us

  19-04-2021 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Surveys show Australians want to buy electric vehicles, but they continue to languish at less than 1 per cent of new car sales. What's going on?
  
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• Australians want electric vehicles, but car makers won't ship them here. Here's why

  19-04-2021 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Surveys show Australians want to buy electric vehicles, but they continue to languish at less than 1 per cent of new car sales. What's going on?
  
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• 'Short-term pain for long-term gain': Transport Minister's message to motorists stuck in Bruce Highway delays

  19-04-2021 21:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Traffic congestion could clog the Bruce Highway between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast for another two years as current projects are completed. But Queensland's peak motoring body warns even then more work will need to be done.
  
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• Scott Morrison: Inner city 'cafes, dinner parties and wine bars' won't get Australia to net zero emissions

  19-04-2021 16:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Scott Morrison has inched closer to committing Australia to an emissions target of net zero by 2050. Although he has done so by also distancing himself from "inner city" residents who have long demanded he adopt an ambitious climate goal.
  
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• Morrison takes aim at inner city 'cafes, dinner parties and wine bars' in climate change comments

  19-04-2021 16:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Scott Morrison has inched closer to committing Australia to an emissions target of net zero by 2050. Although he has done so by also distancing himself from "inner city" residents who have long demanded he adopt an ambitious climate goal.
  
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• Morrison inches Australia towards a zero net carbon future with the battle to be won by industrial sectors

  19-04-2021 16:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Scott Morrison has inched closer to committing Australia to an emissions target of net zero by 2050. Although he has done so by also distancing himself from "inner city" residents who have long demanded he adopt an ambitious climate goal.
  
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• 'What have I done?': Honeymooning Aussies hit Queenstown and head straight for the bungee

  19-04-2021 11:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Just days after their wedding, this couple was thrilled to be able to head abroad and jump off a bridge together, having been given a free bungee-jump when they touched down in New Zealand for their honeymoon.
  
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• Power still out after Seroja smashes WA

  19-04-2021 11:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Western Australians affected by Tropical Cyclone Seroja will receive help with their power and water bills as the massive clean-up effort continues.
  
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• AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS: Mark Beyer on iron ore royalties

  19-04-2021 10:39 via businessnews.com.au
  
  On the debut episode of At Close of Business, journalist Jordan Murray talks to senior editor Mark Beyer about whether WA is getting a fair return on the iron ore trade.
  
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• Court to hold cash in Tianqi, MSP battle

  19-04-2021 10:31 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Tianqi Lithium has lodged $39 million with the state’s courts after a stay on payments to contractor MSP Engineering was granted, as Tianqi awaits an appeal over a March ruling.
  
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• ASX extends best close since Feb 2020

  19-04-2021 10:13 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia's share market eked out its best close since February 2020 as it nears a record, while US reporting season could make or break that bid.
  
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• CV Check CEO resigns

  19-04-2021 10:12 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth tech company CV Check has announced the resignation of chief executive Rod Sherwood, citing personal reasons, shortly after a large acquisition and capital raising.
  
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• Rumble, Zenith soar on 'major' zinc-lead discovery

  19-04-2021 10:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Shares in Perth-based explorers Rumble Resources and Zenith Minerals have skyrocketed after the joint venture announced a “major” discovery at the Earaheedy project in WA.
  
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• Libs, Nats strike opposition deal

  19-04-2021 09:53 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A formal opposition alliance has been struck between the state's Liberal and National parties, mirroring similar power-sharing arrangements between the parties implemented throughout the 2010s.
  
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• Creed a new voice at Water Corp

  19-04-2021 09:45 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Former union state secretary Helen Creed has been appointed to the board of Water Corporation, the third new director in a year.
  
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• Vaccine mandatory for quarantine staff

  19-04-2021 09:39 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Hotel quarantine staff will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to work as of next month.
  
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• New hub to help farmers respond to drought

  19-04-2021 09:38 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Grower Group Alliance will lead a drought resilience adoption and innovation hub in Merredin to help farmers and communities prepare for drought.
  
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• K2fly secures $7m from investors

  19-04-2021 09:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Listed software developer K2fly is raising $7.25 million from a share placement, primarily to strengthen its balance sheet and pursue potential acquisitions.
  
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• Industrial Park plan drives growth

  19-04-2021 08:57 via businessnews.com.au
  
  DevelopmentWA claims its mission to draw major industry to Avon's Industrial Park has been boosted by growing business confidence in WA.
  
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• Seven Group launches mega raising

  19-04-2021 08:47 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Seven Group has entered a trading halt ahead of a $550 million equity raising, aimed at helping the company to reduce its debt and pursue further growth opportunities.
  
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• $4bn lithium merger agreed

  19-04-2021 08:42 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth-based lithium miner Galaxy Resources has struck a merger deal with Orocobre, with the combined group to focus on projects in Argentina.
  
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• Reality check in new age of insecure work

  19-04-2021 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  There is growing concern about the growth in precarious and insecure work in Australia, writes researcher Mike Dockery.
  
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• Vimy completes $18m placement

  19-04-2021 06:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Uranium is beginning to lose its association with disaster as a fourth Perth-based uranium company undertakes a major capital raising this year.
  
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• Gaping holes in infection control system: Mettam

  19-04-2021 05:32 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Liberal Party of WA health spokesperson Libby Mettam has blasted the state government over “gaping holes” in the state’s infection control system.
  
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• Primewest in $600m takeover

  19-04-2021 05:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth-based Primewest has received an off-market takeover bid from fellow property fund manager Centuria, with the combined group to have $15.5 billion in assets.
  
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• New home sales stay buoyant in early 2021

  19-04-2021 05:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  New home sales were nearly 40 per cent higher in the first three months of the year than during the same period last year.
  
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• Overs 50s may join vaccine rollout sooner

  19-04-2021 03:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  People aged 50 and over could be brought forward in the coronavirus vaccine rollout as Australia tries to ramp up its spluttering immunisation program.
  
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• National cabinet meets to discuss vaccine

  19-04-2021 03:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia's troubled coronavirus rollout is set to take centre stage at a national cabinet meeting of federal and state leaders.
  
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• Truck company guilty of failing to properly train driver involved in fatal crash

  19-04-2021 03:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Cleanaway Operations has been found guilty of failing to comply with their health and safety duty over a truck crash in 2014 that killed two people at the base of Adelaide's South Eastern Freeway. 
  
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• 'We found ourselves on top of each other': Egypt says 11 killed in train crash, nearly 100 injured

  19-04-2021 03:12 via abc.net.au
  
  A passenger train derails north of the Egyptian city of Cairo, killing at least 11 people, Egyptian authorities say, in the latest of several rail accidents in recent years.
  
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• 'Euphoria was in the air' then crypto prices crashed on the weekend; ASX marches higher

  19-04-2021 03:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Key cryptocurrency prices stabilise after drops of 15 per cent for bitcoin and 18 per cent for ether over the weekend, while Crown receives a private equity offer to help it buy out James Packer.
  
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• Bitcoin stabilises after weekend plunge; ASX rises as Crown reveals Packer buyout plan

  19-04-2021 03:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Key cryptocurrency prices stabilise after drops of 15 per cent for bitcoin and 18 per cent for ether over the weekend, while Crown receives a private equity offer to help it buy out James Packer.
  
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• ASX flat, Crown gains on Packer buyout plan and lithium players plot mega-merger

  19-04-2021 03:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares finish flat despite a boost to Crown Resorts from a new private equity plan to buy out James Packer, and a mega-merger between two major lithium miners.
  
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• The NZ travel bubble is open — and more destinations could be on the horizon

  19-04-2021 02:45 via abc.net.au
  
  As planes begin ferrying passengers between New Zealand and Australia in the first quarantine-free trans-Tasman travel since the pandemic began, the government is eyeing more deals with neighbouring countries.
  
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• Oaktree lobs competing Crown proposal

  19-04-2021 02:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Crown Resorts has received a $3 billion funding proposal from a private equity group that would allow it to buy out major shareholder James Packer.
  
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• Crown offered 'proposal' to buy out Packer

  19-04-2021 02:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Crown Resorts has received a $3 billion funding proposal that would allow it to buy out James Packer's stake in the gaming company.
  
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• 'A meteor in our life': Peaky Blinders actor Helen McCrory remembered for 'kindness and generosity' after death

  19-04-2021 00:07 via abc.net.au
  
  British actor Helen McCrory, best known for her roles in Peaky Blinders and Harry Potter, is remembered for her "kindness and generosity", after succumbing to a "heroic battle with cancer", aged 52.
  
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