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• 'A lot of speculation' on whether Richard Branson will beat Jeff Bezos into space as Virgin clears regulatory hurdle

  25-06-2021 23:37 via abc.net.au
  
  The Federal Aviation Administration's approval ends Virgin Galactic's long effort to send paying customers on short space flights, which are scheduled to begin soon. 
  
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• Meet the Melbourne residents adjusting to life off the grid after fierce storms

  25-06-2021 23:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Two weeks after Victoria's wild storms, the hills are still alive with the sound of generators as families like the Dawsons learn to cope without power.
  
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• I moved to the beach during COVID but now I've gone back to the city. Here's why.

  25-06-2021 22:10 via abc.net.au
  
  ABC reporter Emilia Terzon was among thousands of Australians who made a sea or tree change during COVID. But she's already back in the big smoke and her story might soon be repeated by many others.
  
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• A sea change was great over summer but the 90 minute commute looked less attractive in the dark and cold

  25-06-2021 22:10 via abc.net.au
  
  ABC reporter Emilia Terzon was among thousands of Australians who made a sea or tree change during COVID. But she's already back in the big smoke and her story might soon be repeated by many others.
  
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• 'Pancaked': Florida condo collapse sends shockwaves through high-rise communities

  25-06-2021 21:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Theories are emerging about how a Florida apartment building collapsed without warning in the dead of the night.
  
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• Authorities scramble to find cause of Florida condo collapse. But there are some clues

  25-06-2021 21:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Theories are emerging about how a Florida apartment building collapsed without warning in the dead of the night.
  
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• Calls for Uber Eats to explain why it left out delivery rider's death during parliamentary evidence

  25-06-2021 21:10 via abc.net.au
  
  NSW Shadow Treasurer Daniel Mookhey is demanding Uber Eats explain why it left out a food delivery rider's death when giving sworn evidence to Parliament, saying he personally feels "misled".
  
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• West Australian mining executives apologise to mine site sexual assault victims

  25-06-2021 11:55 via abc.net.au
  
  WA mining executives hold an unprecedented media conference to apologise to those who have been sexually assaulted or harassed on the state's mine sites after a swathe of alleged incidents.
  
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• At Close of Business: Matt McKenzie on Barnaby Joyce and iron ore royalties

  25-06-2021 09:52 via businessnews.com.au
  
  On today's episode of At Close of Business, journalists Jordan Murray and Matt Mckenzie discuss what the return of Barnaby Joyce means for net-zero policy and new numbers on the state's royalty bonanza.
  
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• Rio cops more criticism

  25-06-2021 09:45 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Rio Tinto has been criticised for allowing Aboriginal heritage artefacts collected at its giant Marandoo mine to be dumped at a Darwin rubbish tip in the 1990s.
  
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• Miners back action on sexual assault

  25-06-2021 09:44 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Top officials from the mining industry have come together to affirm their support for clamping down on sexual assault in the workplace as allegations of misconduct roil the sector.
  
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• First weekly loss in six for Aust shares

  25-06-2021 09:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Investors had their first week of losses in the past six on the ASX while keenly awaited US inflation data could prompt more erratic trading.
  
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• Seven West unveils Community News rebrand plan

  25-06-2021 09:16 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Seven West Media has announced plans to retire the 36-year-old Community Newspapers brand, relaunching the products as PerthNow newspapers from August.
  
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• Local explorers join the ASX

  25-06-2021 09:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Torque Metals has listed on the ASX, joining fellow Perth-based explorer Arcadia Minerals which began trading earlier this week.
  
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• ADC_ progresses $48m Mosman Park proposal

  25-06-2021 08:49 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australian Development Capital (ADC_) has lodged updated plans to build a $48.8 million residential development and shopping precinct in Mosman Park, a project it hopes to expedite through the state’s Development Assessment Unit.
  
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• Motivator charged with WA COVID-19 breach

  25-06-2021 08:45 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A motivational speaker from Victoria is in custody in Perth after allegedly failing to comply with COVID-19 directions.
  
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• Electric super highway charging outback Queensland

  25-06-2021 08:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Distance will soon be no barrier to road trippers, with outback Queensland set to join the electric super highway by adding 18 new charging stations.
  
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• Canberra stick comes with no carrot

  25-06-2021 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The cultural divide between Australia’s west and east is growing.
  
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• Farmer pleads with council to improve road he says is a threat to his business

  25-06-2021 07:11 via abc.net.au
  
  A north west Victorian potato farmer wants to expand his business but the main thing holding him back is an unsealed council road that truck drivers have to navigate.
  
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• Court orders Clive Palmer's company to pay $102m to liquidators over Queensland Nickel collapse

  25-06-2021 07:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Queensland's Court of Appeal says Clive Palmer's firm Mineralogy must pay $102 million to liquidators over the failure of Queensland Nickel in January 2016. 
  
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• Morrison offers states quarantine options

  25-06-2021 07:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Scott Morrison has written to premiers in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia to advance plans for quarantine facilities.
  
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• ChooseCBR businesses claimed 74 vouchers on average, but the top traders processed almost 2,000

  25-06-2021 06:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Small grocers are surprised their businesses topped a list of the participants who made the most trade out of the ChooseCBR stimulus scheme, but the Business Minister says the numbers stack up.
  
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• Campaigners hail first hurdle in level crossing safety changes

  25-06-2021 06:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Community support for improved level crossing safety secures NSW parliamentary debate after campaign from Madeline Bott.
  
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• Insurers one step closer to $10 billion hit after losing High Court appeal on pandemic insurance

  25-06-2021 06:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's insurance industry loses the latest battle in an ongoing "war of attrition" with businesses that want compensation for COVID losses. But that does not mean they will start paying out an estimated $10 billion in claims.
  
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• Insurers lose High Court challenge but 'war of attrition' against COVID-hit small businesses continues

  25-06-2021 06:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's insurance industry loses the latest battle in an ongoing "war of attrition" with businesses that want compensation for COVID losses. But that does not mean they will start paying out an estimated $10 billion in claims.
  
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• Tapping into the indigenous workforce

  25-06-2021 06:12 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Nyoongar traditional owner Gerard Matera says labour shortages prompted by a surge in building activity has put a spotlight on the training and development of an indigenous workforce.
  
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• Pilbara Minerals to restart lithium plant

  25-06-2021 06:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The board of Pilbara Minerals has approved the restart of a lithium plant it acquired from Altura Mining, expected to boost the company’s overall production.
  
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• Qantas hails High Court JobKeeper win over workers as a victory for thousands of small and big businesses

  25-06-2021 05:14 via abc.net.au
  
  The High Court rejects an application by Qantas workers and their unions to hear an appeal of a case about how the airline used the JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme to allegedly deny them penalty rates.
  
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• High Court rejects union bid to appeal Qantas JobKeeper ruling

  25-06-2021 05:14 via abc.net.au
  
  The High Court rejects an application by Qantas workers and their unions to hear an appeal of a case about how the airline used the JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme.
  
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• Regional medical centres plead for borders to open for overseas trained GPs

  25-06-2021 05:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Regional health providers fear there will soon be a shortage of doctors if international borders remain closed.
  
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• Minderoo names plastics initiative chief

  25-06-2021 05:12 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Minderoo has appointed former Dow executive and director Ramesh Ramachandran as chief executive of its No Plastic Waste initiative.
  
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• Flight Centre shares for workers who stay

  25-06-2021 05:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Flight Centre is trying to retain staff amid the pandemic by offering shares if workers stay until the end of next year.
  
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• Family Zone raises $23m to fund US deal

  25-06-2021 04:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  West Perth-based Family Zone, which specialises in cyber security technology, is set to purchase a classroom management business using proceeds from an equity raising.
  
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• British buying Aussie wine at a blistering pace

  25-06-2021 03:35 via abc.net.au
  
  More than half a year since crippling tariffs effectively ended wine exports to China, producers are hard at work cracking into new markets. 
  
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• West Gate Tunnel toxic soil decision paves way for multi-billion-dollar transport project

  25-06-2021 03:17 via abc.net.au
  
  The troubled West Gate Tunnel Project has chosen Hi-Quality's landfill site at Bulla, in Melbourne's north-west, to dump the contaminated soil that's delayed tunnelling for more than a year.
  
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• West Gate Tunnel toxic soil decision paves way for $6.7 billion project

  25-06-2021 03:17 via abc.net.au
  
  The troubled West Gate Tunnel Project has chosen Hi-Quality's landfill site at Bulla, in Melbourne's north-west, to dump the contaminated soil that's delayed tunnelling for more than a year.
  
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• Joyce women's task force gig under fire

  25-06-2021 03:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Senior cabinet minister Simon Birmingham has backed Barnaby Joyce joining him on a task force to tackle women's safety and economic security.
  
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• Advocates for older Australians call for choice over paperless bills

  25-06-2021 02:40 via abc.net.au
  
  John Van Der Wielen is 74 years old has been told he will no longer be mailed a paper bill from his phone provider. His family and advocates for older people say John should get to choose. 
  
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• Mangroves forgotten in climate change discussions

  25-06-2021 02:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Researchers in the Gulf of Carpentaria say that mangroves are dying, showing the gravity of climate change impacts.
  
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• 'More petty than provocative': Government senator criticises China's complaint against Australia

  25-06-2021 01:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Former trade minister Simon Birmingham describes China taking Australia to the World Trade Organization for anti-competitive behaviour as "more petty than provocative".
  
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• Northern Australia's biggest citrus grower sells for $220m

  25-06-2021 01:07 via abc.net.au
  
  With ambitions of breaking into the Chinese fresh produce market, an Australian horticulture heavyweight has entered into a deal to buy 2PH Farms for more than $220 million.
  
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