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• 'Let's make sure we're not walking into an unmitigated disaster': WA divided over planned reopening date

  10-01-2022 23:26 via abc.net.au
  
  Two West Australian epidemiologists call for the state's border opening to be delayed to avoid a potential health "catastrophe" but, in a clear divide, key sectors of the economy warn any delay would be disastrous for jobs and businesses.
  
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• A potential health 'catastrophe' if we do, but 'disastrous' for business if we don't: WA's great COVID-19 divide widens

  10-01-2022 23:26 via abc.net.au
  
  Two West Australian epidemiologists call for the state's border opening to be delayed to avoid a potential health "catastrophe" but, in a clear divide, key sectors of the economy warn any delay would be disastrous for jobs and businesses.
  
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• Only two handfed dolphins left after spate of deaths at WA's Monkey Mia

  10-01-2022 21:29 via abc.net.au
  
  The death of a month-old dolphin calf is the latest blow for the West Australian tourism drawcard.
  
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• US interest rates are tipped to rise four times this year, and it's causing big pain for tech stocks and crypto

  10-01-2022 21:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares have dropped in morning trade, despite US technology stocks rebounding from their earlier losses in an eleventh hour rally.
  
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• ASX set to fall, Wall Street tumbles as tech sell-off continues

  10-01-2022 21:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares are expected to drop in morning trade, as US technology stocks continue to get sold-off on expectations of a sooner-than-expected rate hike.
  
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• ASX set to fall, Nasdaq recovers from tech sell-off in late rally

  10-01-2022 21:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares are expected to drop in morning trade, despite US technology stocks rebounding from their earlier losses in an eleventh hour rally.
  
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• ASX falls after Nasdaq recovers from tech sell-off in late rally

  10-01-2022 21:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares have dropped in morning trade, despite US technology stocks rebounding from their earlier losses in an eleventh hour rally.
  
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• Samsul works 12-hour days, six days a week to support loved ones overseas. Without it, they could starve

  10-01-2022 20:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Financial stresses are being felt by families across Australia, but the pressure on those supporting multiple generations, often on one income, is compounded by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
  
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• Gold Coast company on track to launch rocket this year that could help detect bushfires

  10-01-2022 20:19 via abc.net.au
  
  The venture is in talks with space agencies about the deployment of bushfire-detection satellites ahead of a planned rocket launch later this year.
  
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• New leaders at Lotterywest, The Perth Mint

  10-01-2022 09:02 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Jason Waters will be chief executive at The Perth Mint after the rumour-plagued departure of Richard Hayes, while Ralph Addis will leave his role at another government department to lead Lotterywest.
  
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• Woodside's Pilbara solar plans power ahead

  10-01-2022 08:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Woodside has long term hopes to install up to 500 megawatts of solar generation and 2 gigawatt hours of batteries near Karratha, environmental documents show.
  
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• Bumper year for WA car sales

  10-01-2022 08:55 via businessnews.com.au
  
  New vehicle sales in Western Australia are up 18.7 per cent for 2021 with SUVs taking a majority chunk of the market.
  
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• $22m Dunsborough development refused

  10-01-2022 08:53 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The developer behind the shelved Puma Petrol Station in Dunsborough has had its $22 million replacement proposal shot down, despite lodging revised plans in an eleventh-hour bid to gain approval.
  
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• Jandakot industrial land in $5.75m sale

  10-01-2022 08:28 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The prime industrial land sold for a total of $9.62 million.
  
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• COVID-positive abattoir staff told to keep working, as supply chain issues start to bite in SA

  10-01-2022 08:21 via abc.net.au
  
  An abattoir in South Australia's south-east is being allowed to keep COVID-positive meat processing workers on the job, amid concerns around food security across Australia.
  
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• Little loss for ASX as miners offset falls

  10-01-2022 08:08 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Commodity-based shares proved a saving grace for ASX investors after they offset an Australian market mostly weighed by US rate rise worries.
  
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• Govt awards millions in health work

  10-01-2022 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state government has awarded $58 million worth of COVID-19 management contracts ahead of next month's border reopening, including with Calvary, Medibank and Western Pathology.
  
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• Govt awards millions in health services

  10-01-2022 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Health spending on COVID-19 management has increased ahead of next month’s border reopening, with the likes of Calvary, Medibank and Western Pathology securing $58 million worth of contracts.
  
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• Bowra & O’Dea fined $26,640 by ACCC

  10-01-2022 07:46 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Established WA funeral services provider Bowra & O’Dea has been fined by the ACCC for allegedly failing to disclose hidden cremation and burial fees to customers.
  
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• Rotting berries leave sour taste as supermarket, distribution staff shortages slash orders

  10-01-2022 07:35 via abc.net.au
  
  A berry-growing cooperative that supplies supermarkets has lost 60 per cent of its orders due to the rising number of workers isolating due to COVID, and supply-chain issues.
  
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• Rotting berries leave sour taste as supermarket, distribution staff shortages eat into orders

  10-01-2022 07:35 via abc.net.au
  
  A berry-growing cooperative that supplies supermarkets loses 60 per cent of its orders due to the rising number of workers isolating because of COVID, and supply-chain issues.
  
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• Two to three weeks of supermarket supply disruptions ahead, says Woolworths boss

  10-01-2022 07:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Woolworths boss Brad Banducci warns the supply disruptions affecting his company's supermarkets, and most others, will likely last at least another fortnight.
  
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• 'It's nearly every supplier': Supermarkets warn COVID supply disruptions will last weeks

  10-01-2022 07:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Woolworths boss Brad Banducci warns the supply disruptions affecting his company's supermarkets, and most others, will likely last at least another fortnight.
  
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• Govt awards $31m soccer centre contract

  10-01-2022 06:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state government is progressing the development of a $32.5 million football centre at Queens Park, having awarded its build to local business Broad Construction.
  
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• Govt awards $31m soccer centre build

  10-01-2022 06:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state government is progressing the development of a $32.5 million football centre at Queens Park, having awarded its build to Perth business Broad Construction Services.
  
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• Broad scores $31m soccer centre contract

  10-01-2022 06:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state government is progressing the development of a $32.5 million football centre at Queens Park, having awarded its build to local business Broad Construction.
  
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• Australians win at private Golden Globe awards with no-one there to cheer

  10-01-2022 06:24 via abc.net.au
  
  Nicole Kidman, Sarah Snook and Kodi Smit-McPhee all win at the Golden Globes, held in private in Hollywood.
  
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• Kinetic contracted for $72m

  10-01-2022 06:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth business Kinetic IT has scored another major contract from the state government, involving ICT services at Department of Communities sites across Western Australia.
  
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• Life about to get "very difficult" for unvaccinated: McGowan

  10-01-2022 05:46 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Western Australia has recorded three new local cases of COVID-19 overnight, as Premier Mark McGowan warns those not yet vaccinated that life is about to get “very difficult”.
  
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• Police warn businesses signs are not an alternative for vaccination checks, amid Gold Coast COVID 'surge'

  10-01-2022 05:04 via abc.net.au
  
  A month into Queensland's vaccine mandate police are warning businesses to follow health orders and staff to wear masks or more will face fines.
  
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• Lycopodium books more Batu Hijau works

  10-01-2022 04:49 via businessnews.com.au
  
  East Perth-based Lycopodium has won a $36 million contract to oversee construction and engineering at one of the largest copper-gold mines in Indonesia.
  
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• Housing approvals continue to dip

  10-01-2022 04:15 via businessnews.com.au
  
  WA shows a 1.1 per cent drop in dwelling approvals, while nationally there was a 3.6 per cent rise.
  
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• Farmers buy back land earmarked for controversial coal mine in $120 million sale

  10-01-2022 03:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Rich agricultural land owned by mining giant Shenhua has been repurchased by farmers in the Liverpool Plains following moves to prevent the establishment of a coal mine.
  
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• Coal mining land bought back by local farmers in northern NSW

  10-01-2022 03:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Rich agricultural land owned by mining giant Shenhua has been repurchased by farmers in the Liverpool Plains following moves to prevent the establishment of a coal mine.
  
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• Supermarket supply issues made priority

  10-01-2022 02:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The federal government is working to ease pressure on supply chains amid spiking Omicron cases as stock is thinning out on supermarket shelves.
  
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• 'Brutal' tech sell-off flows from US to Australia, but mining gains limit ASX losses

  10-01-2022 01:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Analysts are warning that tech investors are in for a "white-knuckle" ride as the Nasdaq records its worst week in almost a year and Australian tech names follow it down. 
  
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• 'Brutal' tech sell-off flows from Nasdaq to ASX

  10-01-2022 01:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Analysts are warning that tech investors are in for a "white-knuckle" ride as the Nasdaq records its worst week in almost a year and Australian tech names follow it down. 
  
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