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• 'Huge dividend payments' loom, keeping Australian dollar higher as shares eke out gains

  05-08-2021 23:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market is trading slightly up, despite a raft of negative economic news as three capital cities battle through COVID lockdowns.
  
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• ASX in muted trade as Wall Street rises and gold prices go down

  05-08-2021 23:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Gold companies are dragging down the Australian sharemarket, but it is still headed for a record-breaking week.
  
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• ASX headed for muted trade as Wall Street ends in positive territory

  05-08-2021 23:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares are set to open little changed, a day after another major Australian city was put back into lockdown. 
  
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• 'Unbelievable stuff-up': More than 900 mining leases set to be retrospectively validated

  05-08-2021 22:41 via abc.net.au
  
  The Queensland government seeks to retrospectively validate hundreds of mining tenures, after many were allowed to operate in a way that one leading environmental lawyer compares to mining under "a handshake deal".
  
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• Sydney set for 300,000 job losses as extended lockdown bites, pain spreading to other states

  05-08-2021 22:38 via abc.net.au
  
  The damage from Sydney's virus outbreak is showing up in the national employment data, and economists warn it is spilling over into other states. 
  
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• As Greater Sydney's lockdowns impact other states, women and younger workers suffer most job losses

  05-08-2021 22:38 via abc.net.au
  
  The damage from Sydney's virus outbreak is showing up in the national employment data, and economists warn it is spilling over into other states. 
  
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• Like Australia, Japan has a sluggish vaccine rollout. Doctors hope this tiny stick could set Tokyo free

  05-08-2021 21:59 via abc.net.au
  
  With just 32 per cent of Japan's population vaccinated, doctors in Tokyo are experimenting with a test that may allow people to safely enter bars, restaurants and hotels — even if they haven't had the jab. 
  
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• A rapid antigen test system that actually works? This is how Tokyo could get people back on the dance floor

  05-08-2021 21:59 via abc.net.au
  
  With just 32 per cent of Japan's population vaccinated, doctors in Tokyo are experimenting with a test that may allow people to safely enter bars, restaurants and hotels — even if they haven't had the jab. 
  
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• Rich club has $140 million theatre but would not give $10,000 to a local disability charity

  05-08-2021 20:51 via abc.net.au
  
  An ABC investigation reveals a multi-million-dollar western Sydney club did not follow recommendations from an advisory group and awarded funds allocated to community causes into other projects.
  
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• Smart energy bosses could sue Australia

  05-08-2021 12:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  An energy industry body representing thousands of companies may sue the federal government if it uses Australia's green bank to invest taxpayer dollars in fossil fuel technology.
  
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• Majority of Australians back in lockdown

  05-08-2021 11:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  More than 16 million Australians will once again be plunged into lockdown as extra coronavirus vaccine doses are pumped into outbreak hot spots.
  
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• Cottesloe apartments: third time's a charm

  05-08-2021 10:27 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Gary Dempsey Development's third iteration of plans for an apartment building along Cottesloe's popular beachfront strip has received approval from the Western Australian Planning Commission.
  
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• Alleged fraudster suffering from 'extreme anxiety' after getting sued by Westpac

  05-08-2021 10:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Bill Papas, the man accused of defrauding several banks out of $400 million, says he has been suffering from "extreme anxiety and panic attacks" since being sued by Westpac.
  
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• At Close of Business: Jesinta Burton on BGC, Conview

  05-08-2021 09:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  On today's episode of At Close of Business, journalist Jesinta Burton discusses legal action taken by BGC Australia against a former accountant.
  
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• State to launch $4m campaign to attract workers

  05-08-2021 09:40 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state government will launch a $4 million campaign to draw skilled workers from interstate to address WA’s skills shortage, as data shows people from the eastern states are moving to WA in droves.
  
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• State announces $4m campaign to attract skilled workers

  05-08-2021 09:40 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state government will spend $4 million on a campaign to draw skilled workers from interstate to address WA’s worsening skills shortage, as data shows people from the eastern states are moving to WA in droves.
  
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• Second consecutive day of highs for ASX

  05-08-2021 09:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A second consecutive day of record heights for the ASX has ended with a pullback as investors learned of Victoria's latest lockdown.
  
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• $1bn for Closing the Gap plan

  05-08-2021 09:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The federal government has announced a $1.1 billion package to address Indigenous disadvantage, after the Closing the Gap 2021 report found only three of 14 targets were on track to be met.
  
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• Calls for delay to laws allowing more holiday rentals

  05-08-2021 09:24 via abc.net.au
  
  A New South Wales mayor says changes to short-term holiday letting legislation across New South Wales will wreak havoc for tenants and only amplify the current housing crisis.
  
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• New tenant for One The Esplanade

  05-08-2021 09:17 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Herbert Smith Freehills has signed a deal to relocate its offices from QV1 along St Georges Terrace to One The Esplanade at Elizabeth Quay, once construction is complete.
  
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• Holista to defend ASIC allegations

  05-08-2021 09:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Listed biotechnology company Holista CollTech says it will defend allegations made by ASIC, including “misleading” claims about the effectiveness of its sanitiser spray against COVID-19.
  
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• More support for WA exploration

  05-08-2021 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state government has committed an extra $2.5 million a year to a scheme aimed at encouraging further investment in the mining sector.
  
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• Indigenous art fakes face inquiry scrutiny

  05-08-2021 07:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Fake Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and crafts will come under the microscope of a major inquiry into the market.
  
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• Aqura wins more work with BHP

  05-08-2021 07:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  BHP has contracted the telecommunications arm of ASX-listed Veris to upgrade in-room Wi-Fi at a number of the accommodation sites in the Pilbara.
  
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• Truckies plead for COVID testing at Vic/SA border

  05-08-2021 06:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Truck drivers are calling for COVID-19 testing facilities to be reinstated at the South Australia/Victorian border and for 24-hour sites to accommodate drivers' atypical work hours.
  
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• Government, industry at odds over tight native timber supply during building boom

  05-08-2021 06:09 via abc.net.au
  
  Western Australia's native timber industry is grappling with a shortfall of suitable logs for housing, and the government is flagging climate change as a contributing factor.
  
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• Decmil wins $21m windfarm contract

  05-08-2021 06:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Decmil Group has secured work on a windfarm in NSW as part of a broader contract awarded to its joint venture with South Australia’s RJE Global.
  
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• 'No jab, no work' policy on table as incentive to ease Sydney lockdown

  05-08-2021 05:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Premier Gladys Berejiklian says the government is assessing a 'no jab, no work' policy, allowing employees to return to work if they have been vaccinated, but not all industries see it as a realistic solution.
  
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• No new cases: McGowan

  05-08-2021 05:31 via businessnews.com.au
  
  WA has recorded no new locally-acquired cases of COVID-19 overnight, less than 24 hours after the state government confirmed a Greenwood man in his 30s had tested positive for the virus.
  
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• Mine operations suspended, flights cancelled amid COVID case

  05-08-2021 05:31 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Some operations at Fortescue Metals Group’s Cloudbreak mine have been suspended and Qantas has cancelled flights after a mine worker returned a weak COVID-positive result.
  
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• New connections for Swoop

  05-08-2021 05:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Swoop has secured a more than $5 million, five-year contract with Orro Group to provide NBN enterprise ethernet services to its Western Australian users.
  
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• Government website updates advice on masks to dispel confusion

  05-08-2021 04:15 via abc.net.au
  
  "Masking up" is mandatory in southeast Queensland, but what are the rules for those who have escaped lockdown across the rest of the state?
  
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• 11 coronavirus cases off central Queensland coast likely to be Delta, Maritime Safety Queensland says

  05-08-2021 04:12 via abc.net.au
  
  Maritime Safety Queensland says 23 out of 26 of the crew onboard are vaccinated, with the transmission likely to have occurred during a crewchangover in Japan.
  
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• Resolute locks in $122m Bibiani sale

  05-08-2021 04:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth-based Resolute Mining has secured a new buyer for its Bibiani asset in Ghana, which has offered to pay $US90 million in cash.
  
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• COVID-19 scare at NSW coalmine leads to widespread testing

  05-08-2021 03:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Around 50 miners at the Tahmoor coalmine near Picton in the New South Wales Southern Highlands are being tested and self-isolating after a worker at the mine was identified as a close contact of a COVID-19 case.
  
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• Lure for adventure-seekers to join Avon Valley's antique-hunters

  05-08-2021 03:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Demand for adventure- and nature-based tourism experiences is seeing a West Australian town — known more for its antiques and heritage experiences — to plan walking, riding and running tails tipped to bring $1million a year into its economy.
  
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• ALP, Greens lose bid to alter ARENA remit

  05-08-2021 02:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Labor and the Greens have failed in a fresh push to remove the ability of Australia's green bank to invest in fossil fuel technology.
  
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• Qantas cancels WA flights as Perth Airport included in COVID exposure sites, contacts test negative

  05-08-2021 01:50 via abc.net.au
  
  Qantas is forced to cancel a number of flights out of Perth after WA’s COVID exposure scare yesterday, but a lockdown is looking less likely after most of the close contacts of a FIFO worker who tested positive returned negative test results. 
  
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• Qantas cancels WA flights as Perth Airport included in COVID exposure sites

  05-08-2021 01:50 via abc.net.au
  
  Qantas is forced to cancel a number of flights out of Perth after WA’s COVID exposure scare yesterday.
  
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• Perth lockdown still unlikely as contacts of FIFO worker cleared, but Qantas forced to axe flights

  05-08-2021 01:50 via abc.net.au
  
  Qantas cancels a number of flights out of Perth after WA’s COVID exposure scare yesterday, but a lockdown is looking less likely as most of the close contacts of an infected FIFO worker test negative.
  
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• Sydney broadcaster Brian Henderson dead at 89

  05-08-2021 01:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Sydney broadcaster Brian Henderson has died at his Sydney home at the age of 89.
  
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