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• Are you being bullied at work? Soon you can apply for a legal 'order' in WA to stop it

  31-01-2022 23:55 via abc.net.au
  
  A Perth woman, who says workplace bullying devastated her life and mental health, has welcomed the new law.
  
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• Consumer watchdog receiving more than 100 daily reports of RAT price gouging

  31-01-2022 23:18 via abc.net.au
  
  The ACCC is receiving more than 100 complaints every day of retailers reportedly price gouging rapid antigen tests, as it warns several potential breaches are being investigated.
  
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• Retail sales plunge in December, while ASX jumps on 'patient' Reserve Bank

  31-01-2022 21:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian retail sales have plunged 4.4 per cent in December, according to the Retail Trade figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). 
  
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• Retail sales plunge 4.4pc while ASX rises

  31-01-2022 21:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian retail sales have plunged 4.4 per cent in December, according to the Retail Trade figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). 
  
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• ASX to rise ahead of RBA policy meeting, global stocks rebound

  31-01-2022 21:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares are expected to start the day higher, tracking gains made on Wall Street overnight and ahead of the Reserve Bank's monetary policy meeting today.
  
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• ASX rises ahead of RBA policy meeting, global stocks rebound

  31-01-2022 21:29 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market has had a volatile opening, with investors cautiously looking forward to a key monetary policy meeting from the Reserve Bank later in the day.
  
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• ASX falls at open ahead of RBA policy meeting, global stocks rebound

  31-01-2022 21:29 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian share market has opened lower despite gains made on Wall Street overnight, while investors cautiously look forward to a key monetary policy meeting from the Reserve Bank later in the day.
  
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• Health workers call for AGL to quit coal amid concerns about health risks

  31-01-2022 20:47 via abc.net.au
  
  Health workers stage a "die in" outside AGL's Melbourne office and call for the company to exit coal because of the health risk posed by climate change and air pollution.
  
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• Power charge: Surging renewable energy levels send grid management costs soaring

  31-01-2022 20:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Costs incurred by the body that keeps the lights on across Australia are skyrocketing as surging levels of renewable energy increasingly challenge the security of the grid.
  
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• Tasmanian freight boss says he has no choice but to pass on higher fuel costs

  31-01-2022 20:00 via abc.net.au
  
  While the consumer price index rose 1.3 per cent nationally, in Hobart the increase was 2.2 per cent, partly driven by higher fuel prices and construction costs.
  
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• Labor to unveil support for taxpayer-funded construction of gas-fired power station in the Hunter Valley, but it comes with a caveat

  31-01-2022 11:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Federal Labor confirms it will back the taxpayer-funded construction of a gas-fired power station in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, under the proviso the facility runs on zero-emissions green hydrogen fuel earlier than expected.
  
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• Small win for international education

  31-01-2022 10:05 via businessnews.com.au
  
  International students returning to Perth will be allowed to enter the state under strict conditions this week, but the rules for new recruits aren’t yet clear.
  
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• At Close of Business: Mark Beyer on ASX research

  31-01-2022 09:07 via businessnews.com.au
  
  On today's episode of At Close of Business, senior editor Mark Beyer digs into fresh analysis from researchers at the Univeristy of Western Australia that shines a light on return rates for ASX IPOs.
  
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• 'It's a swamp': Stuart Highway flooding continues to disrupt supermarket supplies

  31-01-2022 09:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Territorians may struggle to find meat and fresh groceries at supermarkets as works continue to remove floodwater on the Stuart Highway. Coles and Woolworths say regular deliveries are coming. 
  
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• ASX dived in January, rates outlook looms

  31-01-2022 08:58 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia's share market has had its worst month in almost two years as investors wait to see if the Reserve Bank will join peers in flagging higher rates this year.
  
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• Distillery hammered over batch of 'culturally inappropriate' gin

  31-01-2022 08:57 via abc.net.au
  
  SouWester Spirits is under fire for using the "essence" of a tree sacred to Noongar people to make gin.
  
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• Cut-off outback community demands military help getting supplies

  31-01-2022 08:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Santa Teresa is 85km south-east of Alice Springs but is struggling with food supply after flooding has made roads impassable. It's resorted to purchase limits at the community store to ensure there is enough food to go around.
  
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• March 5 the date, opposition says

  31-01-2022 08:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state opposition has called for WA’s borders to reopen on or before March 5, citing concerns about waning immunity in the community.
  
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• Christmas power outages under review

  31-01-2022 08:56 via businessnews.com.au
  
  An independent six-week review has been launched into power outages that left approximately 34,000 households without power over Christmas last year.
  
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• Kevin Gallagher joins MinRes board

  31-01-2022 08:48 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth company Mineral Resources has announced a surprise addition to its board of directors with the recruitment of Santos boss Kevin Gallagher.
  
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• Strong labour market comes with caveats

  31-01-2022 08:36 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Putting aside inevitable COVID-19 wildcards, all indicators point to the Western Australian labour market leading the country in 2022.
  
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• RATs selling for as much as $15 wholesale as retailers struggle to keep costs down

  31-01-2022 08:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Pharmacy retailers say the cost of rapid antigen tests is skyrocketing, with one pharmacy owner saying a wholesaler charged him $15 per test.
  
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• EV sales triple in 2021

  31-01-2022 08:36 via businessnews.com.au
  
  More than 24,000 electric vehicles were sold in Australia this past year, with EVs accounting for about two per cent of new car sales.
  
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• Stronger markets buoy IGO, Pilbara

  31-01-2022 08:32 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Strengthening commodity prices have helped conclude a smooth quarter for IGO and braced Pilbara Minerals through a period of lower production and labour shortages.
  
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• Union and official slapped with $90k in fines over 'industrial stalking'

  31-01-2022 08:22 via abc.net.au
  
  The Federal Circuit Court has penalised the CFMMEU and one of its officials after they attempted to force the termination of a labour-hire contract.
  
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• With its owner 'too scared' to get jabbed, high-end Gold Coast eatery shuts for good

  31-01-2022 07:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Artichoke owner Grant Madgwick says government mandates have forced a "thriving" business to close and left him unable to "even go for a beer".
  
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• JJ Leach to sell CBD heritage property

  31-01-2022 07:07 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Mortlock Brothers Building and a Hay Street mall retail property are up for sale.
  
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• Veris soars on Telstra deal

  31-01-2022 06:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Osborne Park-based Veris has struck a $30 million deal with Telstra, sending the surveying company's shares up by more than 25 per cent.
  
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• BHP affirmed as ASX giant

  31-01-2022 06:26 via businessnews.com.au
  
  BHP has knocked Commonwealth Bank off the ASX200 top spot as a scheme of arrangement unifying the miner’s UK and Australian corporate entities takes effect on the stock exchange.
  
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• WA records 12 local cases, opposition demands mandate support

  31-01-2022 06:20 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Western Australia has recorded 12 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 overnight, more than half of whom are linked to the Northbridge nightclub cluster.
  
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• Workers isolate as virus hits WA mines

  31-01-2022 05:45 via businessnews.com.au
  
  About 80 workers are isolating at a BHP mine site in Western Australia's Pilbara region after a contractor tested positive to COVID-19.
  
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• NSW offers omicron financial support, but how many Hunter businesses will benefit?

  31-01-2022 05:07 via abc.net.au
  
  The state government has announced a $1 billion support package, but many Hunter businesses will not qualify.
  
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• Melbourne Airport's plan to build a third runway could increase noise for residents in some areas

  31-01-2022 05:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Melbourne Airport's plan to build a third runway is going on formal public exhibition, with residents encouraged to provide feedback on new flight paths over homes.
  
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• Teys meatworks banned by China over COVID outbreak prompted by media reports, analyst says

  31-01-2022 04:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Meat processing giant Teys has been informed by Chinese authorities that its Naracoorte plant in South Australia which had a high-profile COVID-19 outbreak earlier in the year,  has been temporarily suspended from exporting to China.
  
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• Teys meatworks banned by China over COVID outbreak, one analyst blames media reporting

  31-01-2022 04:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Meat processing giant Teys has been informed by Chinese authorities that its Naracoorte plant in South Australia which had a high-profile COVID-19 outbreak earlier in the year,  has been temporarily suspended from exporting to China.
  
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• Mayor calls for social, affordable housing to be doubled at Brisbane development site

  31-01-2022 04:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Adrian Schrinner says at least 30 per cent of the apartments set to be built at Cross River Rail's Woolloongabba station precinct should be social, affordable and prioritised for frontline workers.
  
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• Call for energy focus in federal budget

  31-01-2022 04:17 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia's peak oil and gas lobby group has called for tax incentives in the next federal budget, while conservation groups demand fossil fuel subsidies be slashed.
  
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• Goyder latest to venture east over border backflip

  31-01-2022 03:49 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Richard Goyder has become the latest executive to shun WA over the indefinite border backflip, confirming he will venture east for the foreseeable future.
  
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• Tonnes of food set to arrive in Coober Pedy as more rain predicted for SA's north-west

  31-01-2022 03:15 via abc.net.au
  
  More than 20 tonnes of food and other emergency supplies has started to arrive in Coober Pedy today as authorities monitor the impact of more rain on South Australia's sodden outback.
  
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• Small-cap stocks deliver top returns

  31-01-2022 02:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  New research analysing 2,000 ASX listings over 20 years has upended some conventional thinking.
  
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• Tough WA vaccination rules into effect

  31-01-2022 02:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Western Australians who have refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19 are being denied entry to most public venues as tough new rules come into effect.
  
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• Repairing Gippsland's saltmarshes to earn blue carbon credits 'a win for everyone'

  31-01-2022 01:33 via abc.net.au
  
  'It's like witchcraft': Happy Gippsland farmers are optimistic about restoring previously unviable saltmarshes to earn blue carbon credits.
  
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• Oil prices surge to seven-year highs amid Russia-Ukraine tensions, ASX slips

  31-01-2022 00:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares have started the day lower, with investors looking forward to the Reserve Bank of Australia's monetary policy meeting on Tuesday.
  
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