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• 50,000 short-term rental listings could be 'switched off' as deadline looms for registration

  28-10-2021 23:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Holiday rental properties in New South Wales will be de-listed from booking websites including Airbnb and Stayz if providers fail to register with the Department of Planning by Monday.
  
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• Supply chain and chip shortage woes hit Apple and Carsales, ASX trading down

  28-10-2021 23:07 via abc.net.au
  
  The ASX 200 is trading down, despite Wall Street finishing up. Crown has settled a class action against it for $125 million.
  
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• Crown settles shareholder class action for $125m as ASX sails

  28-10-2021 23:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Crown's has finished off a momentous week in its history by settling a class action brought against it by angry shareholders. Meanwhile, the ASX 200 is trading marginally down, despite Wall Street finishing up.
  
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• Chip shortage supply woes costs Apple US$6b but Wall Street still rises

  28-10-2021 23:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares are set to follow Wall Street's tech-led high, which saw Apple rise despite concerns about supply chain issues.
  
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• CBA pleads guilty to selling customers 'junk' insurance, while Crown settles class action

  28-10-2021 23:07 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market is wrapping up a week of trade with Commonwealth Bank admitting to selling 165 customers junk insurance and Crown Casino settling a class action against it.
  
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• 'We're one country after all': Why can some Australians fly overseas but not drive to Queensland?

  28-10-2021 21:33 via abc.net.au
  
  In just a few days, many Australians living in NSW or Victoria will be able to fly to London or Los Angeles – but not drive across the Queensland border. Here's how the state's COVID-19 travel rules will work.
  
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• Live: NSW Now: Trains slow for industrial strike

  28-10-2021 21:14 via abc.net.au
  
  MORNING BRIEFING: Sydney trains are running slow on purpose this morning, as industrial action continues for the second week. 
  
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• Why has Beijing censored an Australian's song about glass hearts, pink costumes and pineapples?

  28-10-2021 20:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian singer Kimberley Chen, who has millions of fans in China, has been censored on Chinese social media and music streaming platforms after releasing a song mocking Beijing's controversial policies.
  
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• Australian Kimberley Chen has 'no regret' after China censors her song mocking Xi Jinping

  28-10-2021 20:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian singer Kimberley Chen, who has millions of fans in China, has been censored on Chinese social media and music streaming platforms after releasing a song mocking Beijing's controversial policies.
  
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• Xi Jinping is bingeing coal and avoiding a climate summit. Is he giving up on the green China dream?

  28-10-2021 20:45 via abc.net.au
  
  China's president Xi Jinping must somehow fuel the nation's economic growth, keep the lights on, and break its addiction to coal before it's too late. 
  
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• Xi Jinping has bailed on a crucial global climate summit. But it may not be why you think

  28-10-2021 20:45 via abc.net.au
  
  China's president Xi Jinping must somehow fuel the nation's economic growth, keep the lights on, and break its addiction to coal before it's too late. 
  
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• This 'brilliant invention' lets us cram 900 million cans of baked beans onto one ship

  28-10-2021 20:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Almost every product in our daily lives travels in a shipping container. But now there's a shortage, partly thanks to COVID, which has contributed to supply chain issues. 
  
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• The missing puzzle piece in the global supply chain crisis is large, metallic and lost at sea 

  28-10-2021 20:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Almost every product in our daily lives travels in a shipping container. But now there's a shortage, partly thanks to Covid, which has contributed to supply chain issues. 
  
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• At Close of Business: Jesinta Burton on design and density

  28-10-2021 09:57 via businessnews.com.au
  
  On today's episode of At Close of Business, journalist Jesinta Burton on how architects are navigating density, heritage and community sentiment.
  
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• Albemarle adds gas to lithium plans

  28-10-2021 09:45 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Albemarle hopes to build a 73-megawatt power station at its proposed Kemerton lithium refinery in WA, replacing an original plan to connect to the South West pipeline.
  
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• Feral Brewing put up for sale

  28-10-2021 09:35 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Coca-Cola Europacific Australia is exiting the beer and cider industry in Australia and selling Feral Brewing Company, four years after the beverage giant purchased the craft brewery.
  
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• Feral Brewery put up for sale

  28-10-2021 09:35 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Coca-Cola Europacific Australia is exiting the beer and cider industry in Australia and selling Feral Brewing Company, four years after the beverage giant purchased the craft brewery.
  
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• State DFAT director flags departure

  28-10-2021 09:28 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Canberra's top diplomat in WA will this week finish a 16-month stint leading the state's foreign affairs and trade outpost, as she begins preparations for a new, undisclosed assignment.
  
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• Perkins to build $18m Dunsborough precinct, microbrewery

  28-10-2021 09:25 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Bunbury-based Perkins Builders has been appointed to spearhead the construction of an $18 million holiday accommodation precinct and microbrewery in Dunsborough.
  
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• Electric car taxes 'inevitable' in Australia as SA joins the charge

  28-10-2021 09:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Buyers of electric cars in South Australia will soon be charged for every kilometre they drive, after an electric vehicle tax was passed.
  
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• ASX stalling as central banks talk rates

  28-10-2021 09:04 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Investors lost most of their gains from the week as the ASX stalls on concerns rate hikes could come sooner than planned.
  
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• Top marks for ECU's business, economics courses

  28-10-2021 09:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  ECU’s business and economics discipline has shot up the ladder in new global rankings, cracking Times Higher Education’s top 250 list of providers for the first time.
  
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• Top marks for ECU's business courses

  28-10-2021 09:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  ECU’s business and economics discipline has climbed in new global university rankings, cracking Times Higher Education’s top 250 list of providers for the first time.
  
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• Auroch pockets $8m

  28-10-2021 08:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Subiaco-based Auroch Minerals is set spend funds raised from high-net worth investors to fund base-metal exploration campaigns across Western and South Australia.
  
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• Union action paused for port meeting

  28-10-2021 08:45 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Industrial action that threatened to restrict access to goods ahead of Christmas has been subdued ahead of a meeting between Fremantle Port Authority and the national maritime union.
  
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• Labor shocked by size of golden handshakes for power execs

  28-10-2021 08:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Golden handshakes worth almost $2.4 million for departing Tasmanian power company executives are defended as being "reflective of the nature and tenure of these senior roles".
  
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• Filmmaker and 'true hero' who exposed Indonesian atrocities in Timor-Leste dies after illness

  28-10-2021 08:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Max Stahl, the filmmaker and war correspondent who risked his life to film Indonesian soldiers firing on a crowd of mourners in Timor-Leste in 1991, dies in Brisbane, aged 66.
  
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• Cameraman and 'true hero' who exposed Indonesian atrocities in Timor-Leste dies after illness

  28-10-2021 08:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Max Stahl, the filmmaker and war correspondent who risked his life to film Indonesian soldiers firing on a crowd of mourners in Timor-Leste in 1991, dies in Brisbane, aged 66.
  
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• Mincor, BHP nickel venture slow to start

  28-10-2021 08:13 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Fallout from WA’s strained labour market has delayed the start of an offtake agreement between BHP Nickel West and Mincor Resources, setting back first production by three months.
  
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• Will interest rates start rising with inflation and sink overindebted home owners?

  28-10-2021 07:58 via abc.net.au
  
  There are warnings the cost of borrowing is marching upwards, and much faster than many experts had been forecasting.
  
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• Anyone with a mortgage warned to brace for faster rising interest rates

  28-10-2021 07:58 via abc.net.au
  
  There are warnings the cost of borrowing is marching upwards, and much faster than many experts had been forecasting.
  
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• ANZ lifts FY profit despite housing miss

  28-10-2021 07:08 via businessnews.com.au
  
  ANZ has posted a sharp lift in full-year profit despite underperformance in its home loans business, thanks to a robust lending market and reversal of some COVID-related provisions.
  
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• Giving circles donate half a million

  28-10-2021 07:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Impact100 WA, 100 Women and Meridian Global Foundation donated a collective $506,000 to 11 charities this week.
  
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• EVs coming down the highway – and fast

  28-10-2021 06:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  A new startup is due to launch in Perth next month aiming to capitalise on a surge in electric vehicles.
  
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• The community that ran out of water, prepares for next drought

  28-10-2021 05:55 via abc.net.au
  
  The town of Murrurundi is still shaken from a critical water shortage in 2019 but hopes new infrastructure will bring a more secure future.
  
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• Fortescue faces iron ore headwinds

  28-10-2021 05:46 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia’s fourth largest iron ore producer secured record shipments during the first quarter of the financial year but weaker iron ore prices took a toll on average revenues.
  
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• Speaker Tony Smith resigns from role early

  28-10-2021 05:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  House of Representatives Speaker Tony Smith will step down on November 22 to serve out the rest of the parliamentary term as a Liberal backbencher.
  
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• Collgar loses final attempt to claim damages

  28-10-2021 04:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Collgar Wind Farm has lost a last ditch attempt to claim damages over works that were allegedly faulty, after the court refused to correct an error which saw it sue the wrong entity.
  
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• Carbon startup raises $40 million

  28-10-2021 04:50 via abc.net.au
  
  An Australian startup based in Orange, NSW, raises $40 million from venture capitalists looking for climate solutions.
  
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• Port Wakefield Road headaches almost over following resurfacing delays

  28-10-2021 04:32 via abc.net.au
  
  The end is in sight for nearly 20 months of roadworks and delays on Port Wakefield Road that prompted questions about the necessity of ongoing speed restrictions on resurfaced roads.
  
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• Lost rites of passage: School camps at risk of closure despite Victorian go-ahead

  28-10-2021 04:16 via abc.net.au
  
  Victoria will allow school camps from Monday but the rite of passage for generations of school kids is at risk with operators reporting huge financial losses and important but confusing COVID-safe rules.
  
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• Dairy processor overcompensates carbon emissions to keep customers drinking its milk

  28-10-2021 04:02 via abc.net.au
  
  While Australia's politicians debate achieving a climate neutral status, a Queensland dairy business has gone one further claiming to be carbon positive and offsetting more than it produces.
  
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• This is when you'll have to send your parcels to make sure they arrive for Christmas

  28-10-2021 03:43 via abc.net.au
  
  People across the country are being urged to make sure packages are in the mail by early December to ensure they make it to their destination before Santa arrives.
  
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• Australia Post says you'll need to get organised to make sure parcels arrive in time for Christmas

  28-10-2021 03:43 via abc.net.au
  
  People across the country are being urged to make sure packages are in the mail by early December to ensure they make it to their destination before Santa arrives.
  
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• New owners could bring copper mine back to life, at a time when demand for the metal is on the rise

  28-10-2021 03:33 via abc.net.au
  
  Operations at Mount Lyell could restart within a couple of years, but what does it mean for the local environment?
  
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• Remote communities to trial new program replacing controversial 'work for the dole' scheme

  28-10-2021 03:25 via abc.net.au
  
  The trial job-seeker program will focus on participants in remote locations, rewarding those in 'work-like' placements with supplementary payments of up to $190.
  
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• Banking royal commission reform introduced

  28-10-2021 03:01 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The final round of reforms to the financial sector following the banking royal commission have been introduced to federal parliament.
  
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• Petrol price hits record high just in time for regional travel reopening

  28-10-2021 02:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians are now paying the highest prices ever for fuel as post-COVID activity sees demand for oil exceed supply, and there's no relief in sight as NSW opens up to statewide travel.
  
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• Good design opens streets to high rise

  28-10-2021 02:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Industry and government are using planning initiatives and design to take the heat out of infill development in Perth’s suburbs.
  
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• Drought affected QLD council says Inland Rail project could threaten water security

  28-10-2021 01:58 via abc.net.au
  
  A proposed tunnel through the Toowoomba Range may drain 1,700 megalitres of water from an aquifer used for the drought-affected town's potable water supply. Toowoomba's council says it will not stand for any loss of community water.
  
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